Planting Vegetables Together

I am looking for tips on sister planting which is sometimes called Indian planting. Does the space between the rows of food produce less if the rows are closer together, and what other foods produce well when planted together in the same hole like corn, beans, and squash?

By Delilah

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By 08/16/2011

Thanks for such a Great List! I'll take heed. : )

By 04/02/2011

Tomatoes and basil are great together.

By 04/01/2011

My understanding of the 3 Sisters planting style is to plant corn first. Once it is up 6 - 12 in., then plant the beans close by that will grow up the corn. The squash will help keep the soil cool.
Plant your garlic in with your roses and throw your banana skins in your rose bushes.
Beans: should be planted away from onions, garlic, shallots, and leeks.

Beets: Plant away from pole beans and mustards.

Broccoli: Avoid planting close to strawberries and sunflowers.

Cabbage: This group doesn't mix well with strawberries, sunflowers, and grapes.

Carrots: Keep away from dill.

Corn: Don't plant too close to tomatoes and sunflowers.

Eggplant: Keep away from potatoes, tomatoes and peppers.

Garlic: Avoid planting near beans and peas.

Lettuce: Avoid the cabbage family and sunflowers.

Onions: Do not plant near beans and peas.

Peas: Keep away from onions, garlic, shallots, and leeks.

Peppers: They don't mix well with eggplant, tomatoes, potatoes,and fennel.

Potatoes: Best if planted away from eggplant, peppers, tomatoes,squash, pumpkins and sunflowers.

Strawberries: Keep away from members of the cabbage family.

Tomatoes: They don't get along with corn, potatoes, peppers and eggplant.
Pat

By 03/25/2011

Corn, beans, and squash do well together. Beans will grow up on the corn.

Spinach and strawberries.

Tomatoes and peppers.

Onions are best grown by themselves, few plants get along with onions.

Planting Vegetables Together

What vegetables can I plant together, in the spring?

Hardiness Zone: 7b

Meechi from Camden, NJ

RE: Planting Vegetables Together

You can plant nearly anything together. Plant tall stuff on the north side, so it doesn't shade smaller plants. Space out the big stuff, then toss herb seeds in between (basil, parsley, dill all do well spread out like that). Put your lettuces and radishes in the front, because they'll harvest early, then you can plant a second round half-way through the summer.

The only thing I can think of that's not quite compatible with everything else is peppers. Peppers prefer a slightly more acidic ("sour") soil and most veggies prefer neutral to slightly alkaline ("sweet") soil. Put your peppers (if you like them) at one end and toss some paper match heads in the hole underneath. They'll appreciate the phosphorus. I saw that trick on Victory Garden years ago.

Post again and let us know what you've done and how its working. (02/24/2009)

By Aili

RE: Planting Vegetables Together

Carrots love tomatoes! Plant them along the edges of your tomato rows! Lettuce does well in any nook or cranny, and beans and squash planted with corn saves space too. The beans go up the corn and the squash creeps at the bottom. (02/24/2009)

By 44chicken

RE: Planting Vegetables Together

Search for companion planting. You can go to organic gardening and do, the same search. (02/26/2009)

By hummm

RE: Planting Vegetables Together

As mentioned above, corn, beans, and squash do very well together. My daughter did a report on the Iroquois Indians and they called these the 3 sisters. The corn gave the beans something to grow up, the beans fix nitrogen which the corn likes and the squash has big leaves shading and inhibiting weeds. We are trying this summer. (03/12/2009)

By ricenbeanies