Companion Planting: Why Vegetables Need Friends
Companion Planting: Why Vegetables Need Friends
Flowers: they’re not just pretty to look at, they can really help to improve the way we grow our fruits and vegetables.
Growing a variety of flowers as companion plants in or near your vegetable garden can enhance the beauty and productivity of your plot.
In this short video we’ll show you how to harness the power of flowers to deter pests, attract beneficial insects including pollinators, and even improve your soil.
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can u plant bush beans & chives together
Excellent way of Explanation. Love the to the point approach. This will be helpful for many people
Salvias, any kind—bees and hoverflies love them!
Amazing! This is just what we were looking for. It is very beneficial that you are British, so that your garden choices & layout can be replicated here in the Netherlands 🙂
Australian/American gardeners have different logic in gardening and their tips sometimes don’t workout for northern Europeans.
I was just in the process of removing many flowers to make space for veg, thanks so much for this really informative video!
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I plant my garlic round my roses, 🙂 I’ll defo be doing all your tips 🙂
great Chanel and video I am getting started on my garden and documenting along the way
Achilleas and Hemp Agrimony do a wonderful job of pulling in bees, butterflies and predators. With the Agrimony, due to its height, I have to plant it to one side of growing areas; but the shorter Achilleas make fine work in between plants. I also like to plant lots of different herbs throughout the garden. Mint has to be kept contained to stop it spreading just everywhere, but I like Thyme (smells on hot days), Oregano, and introduced sweet Cicely a couple of years ago (grew it from seed, wouldn’t be without it now).
Canna lily for hummingbirds, marigolds for pests, and dahlias for bees
I love, Love, Love nepta. Best bee and butterfly attractor in my whole garden. There are always many bees every minute of daylight
Every year I plant sunflowers, cosmos and zinnias. This year I’ve expanded and done a cutting garden with a lot more variety. I can’t wait for the pest control and the bouquets!
I grow vegetables along my walkway with my flowers. A win win for me! Thank you for your informational video! I especially like the wild flowers!
Do you always call ladybirds ladybugs?
accidentally planted marigolds and holy hocks in my garden and left them because I thought they looked pretty. now I know why there were less bugs than usual. 🙂
Someone is chomping down my baby eggplants in the dark …grrr!
Thank you.
Wonderful advice. Comphrey and stinging nettles are also great for lots of purposes including weed killer and plant food
Yarrow..I use it for tea as well
Attract butterflies?!!
Them mungrel things are responsible for my silver beet being eaten alive by little green alien bugs!
Next time I see a butterfly I’ll give it a jolt from a can of WD40 and a cigarette lighter.
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Lavender beside the orange and lemon trees. Loads of bees
Great video. Got to the point right away
i love this garden style so much more than the last video i watched which had perfect rows measured with string
I like this method of planting I always plant flowers amongst my vegetable. last year my leeks flowered and self seeded, I noticed a clump of what looked like leeks this spring they were in clumps of 4 I pulled one up it was the most delicious leeks I have ever tasted. I also have volunteer potatoes in the garden as much as I try to harvest every thing I am always late because of other commitments, as a result lots of volunteer potatoes. I have one that has come up for 5 years and it is not available for sale any more (Lady Christelle).
I like seeing neat all in a row vegetable planted but I do not have the time to do that instead of giving up I have put this method in practice and it works quite well I enjoy it.
What garden planner are u using that u showed? Looks very good and I’d like to..
I inherited a rather large Salvia plant from the previous tenant of my home. The bumblebees LOVE it! I saw two different species of bumblebee in it just yesterday.
I’m growing my garden in containers, and have interspersed containers of marigold, snapdragon, pansies, and various herbs (rosemary and thyme chiefly) among my vegetable pots to help bring color, attract pollinators, and repel pests.
Rosemary plants the blue flowers attract the bees and the single dahlias keep so many insects happy.
Use marigolds around my 🍅 plant works great as u said. From California 😊 great vid!!!
Do you live in California or Oregon?
thanks for the great info! i will leave some dandelions in my veg patch after all 😊
Chives and marigolds
interesting, never seen flowers like this point of view
scented jazmine bachelor button marigolds painted daisy and a lot of herbs
I need to deter moles. Bastards
Did he say lady BUGS ? As a Brit I must admonish his choice of American vocabulary here, it’s a Ladybird sweetie .
Here in Virginia we plant a lot of Zinnias, Marigolds and Salvia in the garden. The deer don’t like them so much.
Where do I find the garden planner?
You showed sunflowers as a companion plant to sow, but didn’t mention that they – and all members of the solanum family – need to be kept away from some crops, such as raspberries and strawberries.
What flowers should I plant with my kale and collards?
Brilliant video, thanks so much for posting. I’ve been growing lots of veggies during lockdown and am just planting them out so will definitely include some suggested flowers amongst them. Isn’t the creation amazing!!!!
Brilliant video. Learned a lot and will follow on your advice. Thank you!
Thanks for the info. Kindly enumerate the flowers to plant best to act as both pollinators and helps to protect the veggies from pests. Many thanks and more power!
Thanks for the great info.
The best explanation I have seen. Thank you so much.
Thank you for sharing 😀
This is so helpful to a newbie gardener in Qld, Australia. Love your helpful videos. Thank you 👏🏼🙌🏼
With all going on, food prices and shortages, all home grown is a winner. I just took 1 third Acre of lawn and extended the growing bed zone. People thought I was mad as I had doubled the area. Not so silly now. But I give away spare, as lots dont have the space I do. My neighbor’s are nice, so free food always a bonus
I don’t like friend very much
Could you tell us the name of the garden planning program you use here? It looks fabulous!