These compatible plants will help one another grow.

We went straight to the experts to provide you with the best companion planting guide for your garden.

What is Companion Planting and How Does It Work?

Vegetable garden in late summer. Herbs, flowers and vegetables in backyard formal garden. Eco friendly gardening

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The natural relationships between plants can help improve productivity and health in the garden."

She continues, “For instance, it’s possible for you to deter nematodes and aphids with marigolds.

Certain plants can help their neighbors grow by supplying nutrients,improving soil health, or supporting them physically.

A bed of flowering turkey carnations along a slatted walkway in front of tomato plants and capucine and marigolds

Nitrogen-loving plants like spinach and lettuce benefit from legumes like beans and peas fixing nitrogen in the soil.”

you’re able to also maximize your garden space with companion planting.

“What one expert says should beplanted next to each other, another says you shouldnever plant together.

rabbit in garden

It’s understandable that new gardeners can become confused and disheartened by all the noise.”

I prefer to call this good neighbor gardening rather than companion gardening.

“Some veggies like spinach and lettuce only get a few inches tall,” Heinrich explains.

Muhlenbergia capillaris, commonly called pink muhlygrass or pink hair grass, is a clump-forming, warm season, perennial grass that is noted for its attractive summer foliage and spectacular clouds of autumn flowers. Glossy, wiry, thread-like, dark green leaves and stems form an attractive basal clump to 60cm tall. The blooming season is the fall. Masses of airy, open, loosely branched inflorescences, each to 30 centimeters long, in pink to pinkish-red float above the foliage in a lengthy fall bloom.

Then, these tall and short plants can live in harmony.

Leaf shape makes as much of a difference as height.

“Just imagine two people of the exact same height standing side by side on the beach.

vegetable garden with watering cans

One is wearing a baseball cap, and the other is holding a huge beach umbrella over their head.

Even though they are the same height, their shade impact is very different.

The same is true for vegetable plants, he explains.

Hydrangeas

Companion Planting with Flowers

Dobbs says that many plants rely on pollinators like bees for fruiting.

Planting flowers among crops will increase yields and pollination.

“Pick flowers with pest-repellent properties.

Wheelbarrow with compost in my garden for the flower beds

Aphids, nematodes, and whiteflies hate marigolds.”

“you’re free to plant them around your vegetable beds to repel pests,” she adds.

“Clover and lupine are good at fixing nitrogen and adding organic matter to the soil.”

Large summer flower garden

Cubian recommends using plants such as alyssum and bitter melon to control weeds.

So, flowers have many benefits and are an essential part of companion planting.

“Createbeneficial plant guilds with herbs, vegetables, and flowers.

humming bird with humming bird mint

you gotta pay attention to how herbs grow.

“Natural self-seeders like dill andcilantro can also spread naturally.

Bees and butterflies love herbs because they produce flowers.

pink and red tulips

Avoid These Companion Planting Mistakes

Gardening takes patience and can be a process of trial and error.

Larkspur flowers, Delphinium elatum in white, purple and blue colors

A close-up view of a woman’s hands cutting dried flowers from a hydrangea bush in the garden

Watering can at the home garden. Gardening and floriculture, flower care

Pretty cottage garden growing a variety of annual and biannual native flowers in Ireland

epsom salt next to plants

Plants that Repel Bugs and Mosquitoes, pretty flowers

Wildflowers in and English cottage garden with a grass path, in the soft summer sunshine