Tips On Companion Planting With Herbs In Your Garden

Companion planting with herbs will give some benefits for the plants themselves and power to help each other to grow and thrive. For example, companion planting your home-grown tomatoes with sweet basil will improve your tomatoes taste, companion planting some caraway plants throughout your garden will help to loosen the soil, or companion planting feverfew with your roses will also help to keep the aphids away. Certain herbs and other plants will do better simply by planting them nearby to each other but other herbs and plants should be kept far away. So you need to consider several factors when choosing companion plants for your herb garden.

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Companion Planting with Herbs

Here are some factors you need consider before you make companion planting with herbs in your garden:

1. Never plant two heavy feeders next to each other for companion planting with herbs as they will compete for the nutrients in the soil.

2. Consider what each plant needs and what each plant gives back to the soil before you choose companion plants for your herb garden. For example, dill with cabbage do well together as does chives and carrots. While Lovage works to improve the health and flavor of just about any garden plant.

3. Consider scent and flavoring for companion planting with herbs. Strong herbs can change the scents and flavors other herbs or vegetables, sometimes the change is good, but for other is not so good. For example, summer savory and beans, or basil and tomatoes can provide good flavor and scents to the garden but if you plant with mint, you will notice they will smell same. For example if you plant peppermint too close to spearmint, in time, they will both taste and smell the same. Mint also does make a good companion for tomatoes though, as do sage, thyme, and bee balm. Marjoram and tarragon will help to enhance the flavor of almost any vegetable that you choose for companion planting with herbs.

4. Companion planting with herbs can help keep detrimental bugs / insects away from your vegetables and other plants in your garden. For example planting feverfew and roses, planting borage with squash, tomatoes, and strawberries, planting deadnettle with potatoes, planting tansy near your fruit trees, or planting rosemary with cabbage, carrots, beans, and sage. By using companion planting with herbs to keep the bugs away, you will not need to use as many insecticides which are harmful to the beneficial garden insects, like the ladybugs and bees.

5. Some plants should be kept away from other plants at all costs in companion planting with herbs. For example, dill should never be planted with Angelica, carrots, or caraway, rue need to be kept away from sweet basil, cucumber need to be kept at opposite sides from your sage in the garden.

Companion planting with herbs will help your garden to help itself with natural insecticide repellents and fertilization. And as the reward, your vegetables and herbs will taste better so you will have more free time to relax and enjoy your herbs.

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