Companion Planting

[floridachickhatcher]

My sister told me and my mom about this site i figure since the new garden section it would help other gardeners

It teaches you about pairing plants together like tomatos pair them with basil and it improves the flavor and marigolds to keep pest away

Or with Corn plant them with Sunflowers since they get the same height and if apeids get on the corn the ants will herd them onto the sunflowers and the birds will eat them if they dont pig out on the sunflower itself ^_^

We have a big crop this year and im planting more each week

200 Zucchini plants,maybe 50-100 watermelon plants,100-150 cantalope,100 Squash,50 Eggplants,100-150 Tomatos,150-200 Pepper Plants,20 Corn,40 Sunflower,And then have lots of herbs and then i have to plant flowers to keep attracting bees and butterflys ^_^

http://www.ghorganics.com/page2.html

 

[HHandbasket]

Wow, and here I thought I was being adventurous!

I have in the ground and growing (at various stages, some nearing harvest) now:
3 zucchini plants, 3 Tigger melons, 2 Jarrahdale pumpkins (we have really sandy soil), 2 honey rock cantaloup, 1 yellow watermelon, 2 sugarbaby watermelons, 1 green tomatillo, 6 Ichiban (Japanese) eggplant, 2 sweet cayenne, 6 assorted hot peppers, 1 purple sweet pepper, 1 spaghetti squash, 1 Pineapple pear (yellow) squash, 1 bitter melon, 25 chick peas/garbanzo beans, about 6 feet of rainbow chard, 1 green globe artichoke, 2 sugarpie baby pumpkins, 6 ever-bearing strawberries, 5 Rutgers heirloom tomatoes, 1 black cherry tomato, 1 black krim tomato, and 1 black zebra tomato, 2 early girl tomatoes, 1 sweet100 cherry tomato, 2 lemon boy heirloom tomatoes, a "mystery volunteer squash" which my landlady tells me is most likely a yellow squash planted by the previous tenant, 8 brussel sprouts plants, 6 pea plants, 3 purple Vienna kohlrabi, 4 cauliflower, 6 dwarf blue kale, a smattering of spinach, 2 sweet cayenne peppers, 1 Boston pickling cucumber, 1 "straight 8" slicing cucumber, 1 lemon cucumber, oregano, basil, chives, and chamomile. I have more varieties of started seedlings (which I started from non-GMO seed) on-board and ready to go, probably in the next 2-3 days.

 

[Casey09]

i started sall this summer. i have pumpkin, watermelon, green beans, okra, butternut squash and zucchinni. they have taken over the whole garden and thats fine for now lol