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Articles tagged with "companion-planting"

Pencil-crayon illustration of a vibrant pollinator garden in late spring with tomatoes and squash interplanted with purple coneflower, bee balm, lavender, borage, marigolds, and zinnias, with a honey bee on bee balm and a monarch butterfly on milkweed
6 May

Companion Planting for Pollinators: Attract Bees and Butterflies

Peter Vogel
Pencil-crayon illustration of fall garlic planting bed in late October with rows of cloves being tucked into soil under straw mulch, companion strawberries and overwintering brassicas at the bed edges
5 May

What to Plant With Garlic: Fall Companion Planting

Peter Vogel
A research-minded vegetable gardener crouched in a productive raised bed examining a tomato plant intercropped with sweet alyssum and basil, treating the bed like a small experiment
30 Apr

The Science of Companion Planting: What Actually Works

Peter Vogel
Pencil-illustrated overhead view of a vegetable garden bed with nasturtiums in vibrant orange and yellow bloom sprawling at the edges and along the perimeter, surrounding a centre cluster of healthy bushy cabbage, kale, broccoli, and a young tomato plant.
29 Apr

Companion Planting Nasturtiums: Trap Crops That Work

Peter Vogel
Pencil-illustrated overhead view of a productive cool-season raised bed in spring with lettuce as the centrepiece — rows of frilly green and red leaf lettuce, alongside carrots with feathery tops, scattered chives in purple bloom, radishes, and strawberry plants with white flowers and red fruits at the edges.
29 Apr

Companion Planting Lettuce and Greens: Cool-Season Combos

Peter Vogel
Pencil-illustrated overhead view of a backyard garden showing four seasons in quadrants of the same plot — winter cover crops, spring peas and lettuce, summer tomatoes and squash, fall brassicas and dill — with a 12-month calendar grid in the centre.
29 Apr

Monthly Companion Planting Calendar: What to Plant When

Peter Vogel
Pencil-illustrated overhead view of a mature backyard apple tree in late-spring bloom with a permaculture guild of comfrey, daffodils, white clover, yarrow, and dill planted in concentric rings around the trunk.
28 Apr

Companion Planting Fruit Trees: Building Productive Guilds

Peter Vogel
Pencil-illustrated overhead view of a 4 by 8 foot wooden raised garden bed in late spring with a companion planting layout: tomatoes and marigolds at the back, peppers and basil in the middle, lettuce and carrots in the front, and pole beans on a back trellis.
28 Apr

Companion Planting for Raised Beds: Maximise Every Square Foot

Peter Vogel
Pencil-crayon raised garden bed in late spring with carrot tops growing alongside onion shoots, a tomato plant, lettuce and radishes filling the gaps, and chamomile flowering at the edge in golden-hour light
27 Apr

Companion Planting Carrots: Best Root Crop Partners

Peter Vogel