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Goodwood, Ontario, Canada

I'm attempting to put together a list of companion plants that will be advantageous to my tomato, pumpkin, watermelon, cabbage and long gourd plants. So far I have basil and marigolds for tomatoes. Does anyone have a list or suggestions on specific companion plants and the benefit of planting them?

5/4/2012 7:28:10 AM

Allentown, PA

Well I would suggest a nuclear plant as the radiation would greatly assist in growing a world record. ;O)

5/4/2012 9:12:34 AM

Niagara Falls,NY

So I should use dirt from love canal!

5/4/2012 9:23:54 AM

Baker City Oregon

I have heard that White Icicle Radishes planted around a pumpkin plant will help keep SVBers away. You have to let them keep growing all year and you can't harvest them. They will get huge for a radish because of all the amendments for the pumpkin. I tried it one year but don't know if it was effective or not. I never had SVB. SVB has never been a problem here at my patch. I am getting concerned though as I was talking with a produce grower just north of here that had them on the edge of his squash field last year. It wouldn't hurt to try them!

5/4/2012 9:51:35 AM

The North Coast

Dont let anyone tell you that onions or garlic help keep voles away from broccoli. With surgical precision they have eliminated my 9 plants that I planted twice (18 total).

Onions and garlic are doing great.

5/4/2012 11:51:55 AM

The North Coast

...probably doing good because of all of that vole manure deposited in the soil!

5/4/2012 11:52:55 AM

President - GPC

I hate voleZ>....

5/4/2012 1:09:03 PM

President - GPC

VOleZ are great companion plantZ... I plant aZ many aZ I can where ever I can.....

5/4/2012 1:09:46 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

Nastursiums(sp), Dill, Feverfew, Cosmo's anything to attract the good bugs. You get some parasitic wasps, and a fleet of lady bugs in your garden they will take care of most bad inspects.

5/4/2012 1:22:09 PM

President - GPC

DOnt the Nasty Nasturiums attract aphidZ to themselveZ? Then the LbugZ eat the aphidZ...but LBugZ dont eat VoleZ....

5/4/2012 2:59:58 PM