July 17, 2013

Sunflowers and Companion Planting

Another of my homesteading goals this year was to do more companion planting and incorporate more  plants into the garden to attract pollinators and other beneficial insects...
and to be pretty:



































I absolutely LOVE sunflowers and the garden is loaded with them this year. I planted pole and bush beans along the chicken run and then sprinkled a few sunflowers in the row as well.  The beans are using the sunflowers as well as the string trellis.

I also planted chamomile along the path edge of the beans:

It is important to allow some of your veggies to go to seed. The beneficial insects are really attracted to them:
 Globe artichoke flower
I planted borage (blue flowers in front) near the tomatoes and allowed some of the radish (small white flowers) to go to seed:



































The radish help by attracting the flea beetles off of the tomatoes.

Here is a handy companion plant list-- I cannot seem to find the site I saved this from, but I think it was the local OSU extension site:
Plant
Companions
Incompatible



Asparagus
Tomato, Parsley, Basil

Beans
Most Herbs & Vegetabes
Onion
Cabbage
Aromatic Herbs, Celery, Beets, Onion Family, Chamomile, Spinach, Chard
Strawberries, Tomato, Dill
Carrots
Peas, Lettuce, Onion, Sage, Tomato
Dill
Celery
Nasturtium, Onion, Cabbage, Tomato

Cucumber
Beans, Peas, Sunflower, Raddish
Aromatic Herbs, Potato
Lettuce
Carrot, Radish, Strawberry, Cucumber

Onions
Beets, Carrot, Lettuce, Cabbage
Beans, Peas
Parsley
Tomato, Asparagus
 
Peas
Carrots, Raddish, Turnip, Cucumber, Beans,
Onions, Potato
Potato
Beans, Cabbage, Horseraddish, Marigolds
Sunflower, Cucumber, Tomato
Raddish
Peas, Nasturtium, Lettuce, Cucumber
Hyssop
Spinach
Strawberry, Faba Bean

Tomato
Onion, Marigold, Asparagus, Carrot, Parsley, Cucumber
Cabbage, fennel, Potato
Turnip
Pea
Potato

Don't forget to plant sunflowers, I do not think there can be too many:





















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