Companion Planting, Making Best Friends in the Garden

Well the last couple of days we have had sunshine and great temperatures.  Then guess what happens?.....Mother Nature drops snow on us!!

Oh well this is February in New Hampshire. If you don't like the weather wait 10 minutes. That is what the old saying says at least.  Well during this time I have started several of my seeds.  Onions, Broccoli and Cauliflower, Peppers are all happily incubating in the little window green house. 

So now that I have begun to start my little plants I am thinking about how to I lay out my garden beds?

I needed to figure out what plants would do well with the other ones? I don't want to have any wasted space in the beds and I want to have as little weeding to do as possible.  That is why this year I am using the Square Foot Gardening Method.

In order for my garden beds to be really productive I need to find out what plants do well together and which ones don't.  This is called companion planting.   Below is a great graph that explains what works and what is incompatible really well.

Hope that you can come and join us at the Patchwork Living Blogging Bee #19.

Plant	Companions	Incompatible
Asparagus	Tomato, Parsley, Basil
Beans	Most Herbs & Vegetables	Onion
Cabbage	Aromatic Herbs, Celery, Beets, Onion Family, Chamomile, Spinach, Chard	Strawberries, Tomato, Dill
Carrots	Peas, Lettuce, Onion, Sage, Tomato	Dill
Celery	Nasturtium, Onion, Cabbage, Tomato
Cucumber	Beans, Peas, Sunflower, Raddish	Aromatic Herbs, Potato
Lettuce	Carrot, Radish, Strawberry, Cucumber
Onions	Beets, Carrot, Lettuce, Cabbage	Beans, Peas
Parsley	Tomato, Asparagus
Peas	Carrots, Raddish, Turnip, Cucumber, Beans,	Onions, Potato
Potato	Beans, Cabbage, Horseraddish, Marigolds	Sunflower, Cucumber, Tomato
Raddish	Peas, Nasturtium, Lettuce, Cucumber	Hyssop
Spinach	Strawberry, Faba Bean
Tomato	Onion, Marigold, Asparagus, Carrot, Parsley, Cucumber	Cabbage, fennel, Potato
Turnip	Pea	Potato