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: