Companion Planting

thebarley7 9/30/2012, 8:57 pm

Found this awesome web site for companion planting from North Dakota State University. Really cool, thought I would share.

http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/hort/info/vegetables/companion.htm

I did plant radishes with my summer squash. I thought I read it here somewhere on the forum to deter pests.

ksbmom 9/30/2012, 10:50 pm

Wow!

so much for posting this. I just read last month in the Grit magazine about companion planting and this chart is just what I was looking for to tell me what to plant with what. I've done pretty well except I did plant onions near some things that I guess I shouldn't have. Oh well, live and learn!

quiltbea 9/30/2012, 11:51 pm

As regards planting radishes with melons and squashes......I planted some around my melons and squash plants in my community garden rows in 2010. I can attest that I had no bug problem that year. I just left the radishes to grow and grow. They grew huge, ugly, thick, discolored and inedible, but they may have been what kept my melons pest free that year.

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Aug 2010 showing healthy watermelons and cantaloupes.

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Fresh cantaloupe the end of Aug 29, 2010.

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Watermelon on Sept 1, 2010.

This year my few squash and melon plants were lost to insects and probably too much shade. I planted them in a different community garden area without radishes. Except for a few zucchinis, the rest succumbed early. I really think radishes might have helped.
You can be sure I'll sow radish seeds with my squashes next year.

cheyannarach 10/1/2012, 2:39 am

Thanks for posting, I love companion planting in my SFG!

mollyhespra 10/2/2012, 8:49 am

Oh, I LOVE that website. It's very thorough. Here's another one: http://landshareco.org/growing-ideas/companion-plants/. Mostly repetition of what you've posted but it has a "sort" feature which is kinda nice.

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