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Artichoke (Globe)
| 4 | 2' 11" | 2' 11" x 2' 11" | Group artichoke with mediterraneans such as Provance French Lavender, (Lavandula x intermedia 'Provence') or more heat loving Winter Bee Spanish Lavender, (Lavandula stoechas 'Winter Bee'). It's quite beautiful in cool compositions with Blushing Knock Out Rose, (Rosa x 'Radyod') and Butterfly Blue Pincushion Flower, (Scabiosa columbaria 'Butterfly Blue'). |
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Arugula
| 1 | 5" | 3" x 7" | |
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Asparagus
Jersey Knight
| 8 | 1' 11" | 1' 11" x 1' 11" | Soil Preparation - late fall, spread 3" layer of organic matter such as manure, rotted sawdust or compost over the beds. Till or spade to a depth of 10 to 12 inches and turn the soil so all organic matter is covered. Asparagus does not do well if the soil pH is < 6.0; add lime if needed to adjust the pH to 6.5 to 7.0.
Fertilizing - Before planting , till in 2-3# of 10-20-10 fertilizer per 20' of row. For established beds scatter 1-2# of 10-20-10 fertilizer per 20' before growth begins in the spring, late Jan - early Feb. Add additional 1-2# per 20". Cover bed w/3" straw, compost or other mulch material, water thoroughly & allow to grow the rest of the year. After 1st fhard frost of fall, cut fern tops off at ground level and mulch with manure. Harvest asparagus spears from established beds for about 8 weeks, when they are 4-10". Do not harvest too soon from a new planting. Cut asparagus spears 1-2" below soil level. At least o1/2 the length of the spear should be above ground. |
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Basil
Genovese
| 27 | 1' 5" | 1' 5" x 1' 5" | TRELLIS; Plant with tomatoes to improve growth and flavor. Basil also does well with peppers, oregano, asparagus and petunias. Basil can be helpful in repelling thrips. It is said to repel flies and mosquitoes. Do not plant near rue or sage. |
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Basil
Amethyst Improved
| 26 | 7" | 7" x 9" | TRELLIS |
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Beans (Lima)
Burpee's Best
| 240 | 3" | 3" x 1' 11" | Sow lima beans in the garden 3 to 4 weeks after the average date of the last frost in spring when the soil temperature has warmed to 65 or more for at least 5 days and daytime temperatures are consistently warm. Start lima beans indoors as early as 2 to 3 weeks before the average last frost date in spring for transplanting into the garden. Lima beans require 60 to more than 90 warm, frost-free days to reach harvest depending upon type and variety. |
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Beans (Pole)
Pinto
| 1080 | 2" | 2" x 1' 1" | Sow seed after any danger of frost has passed, and when the soil has warmed to at least 60 F (16 C). Plant 1 inch (2.5 cm) deep and 3 inches (7.5) apart in single or double rows. Cultivate shallowly until the plants are large enough to shade out weeds. Mulch between rows to help prevent pods from rotting if they touch they ground. Moisture is critical when the plants are in flower. When pods begin to mature, withhold water to help with drying. |
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Beans (Pole)
Garden of Eden (Johnny's Seeds
| 588 | 3" | 3" x 1' 5" | All bean enrich the soil with nitrogen fixed form the air, improving the conditions for whatever crop you plant after the beans are finished. In general they are good company for carrots, celery, chards, corn, eggplant, peas, potatoes, brassicas, beets, radish, strawberry and cucumbers. Beans are great for heavy nitrogen users like corn and grain plants because the nitrogren used up by the corn and grains are replaced at the end of the season when the bean plants die back. French Haricot beans, sweet corn and melons are a good combo. Summer savory deters bean beetles and improves growth and flavor. Keep beans away from the alliums. Growing tip: Do not allow beans to mature on the plant, or it will stop producing, and do not pick beans or cultivate when they are wet, or it will spread viral diseases |
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Beet
Winter Keeper - storage
| 167 | 3" | 3" x 7" | Succession plant Q2wks |
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Beet
Red Ace
| 57 | 3" | 3" x 11" | Succession plant Q2 weeks |
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Beet
Merlin - Early
| 87 | 5" | 3" x 7" | Succession plant Q2wks |
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Borage
| 32 | 1' 1" | 11" x 1' 11" | Companion plant for tomatoes, squash, strawberries and most plants. Deters tomato hornworms and cabbage worms. One of the best bee and wasp attracting plants. Adds trace minerals to the soil and a good addition the compost pile. The leaves contain vitamin C and are rich in calcium, potassium and mineral salts. Borage may benefit any plant it is growing next to via increasing resistance to pests and disease. It also makes a nice mulch for most plants. Borage and strawberries help each other and strawberry farmers always set a few plants in their beds to enhance the fruits flavor and yield. Plant near tomatoes to improve growth and disease resistance. After you have planned this annual once it will self seed. Borage flowers are edible. |
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Broccoli
Packman
| 42 | 1' 3" | 1' 3" x 1' 5" | |
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Brussels Sprouts
Oliver
| 15 | 1' 2" | 1' 2" x 2' 11" | |
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Cabbage (Fall Red)
| 6 | 2' 9" | 2' 7" x 2' 11" | Celery, dill, onions and potatoes are good companion plants. Celery improves growth and health. Clover interplanted with cabbage has been shown to reduce the native cabbage aphid and cabbageworm populations by interfering with the colonization of the pests and increasing the number of predatory ground beetles. Plant Chamomile with cabbage as it Improves growth and flavor. Cabbage does not get along with strawberries, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, rue, grapes, lettuce and pole beans. |
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Cabbage (Fall Red)
Ruby Perfection
| 13 | 1' 3" | 1' 3" x 2' 11" | |
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Cabbage (Fall)
Famosa
| 13 | 1' 3" | 1' 3" x 2' 11" | |
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Cabbage (Fall)
| 7 | 2' 9" | 2' 7" x 2' 11" | |
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Cabbage (Spring Red)
| 8 | 2' 5" | 1' 11" x 2' 11" | |
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Cabbage (Spring)
| 14 | 1' 3" | 1' 3" x 1' 5" | |
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Cabbage (Summer Red)
| 27 | 1' 3" | 1' 3" x 1' 9" | |
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Cabbage (Summer)
| 12 | 1' 7" | 1' 5" x 1' 9" | |
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Cabbage (Summer)
Chieftain Savoy
| 13 | 1' 3" | 1' 3" x 1' 11" | |
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Calendula
| 32 | 11" | 9" x 1' 11" | |
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Carrot
Scarlet Nantes
| 1197 | 3" | 3" x 5" | Succession plant q2wks |
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Cauliflower
Fremont
| 40 | 1' 3" | 1' 3" x 11" | |
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Celery
Tango
| 207 | 9" | 9" x 9" | Earliest seeding in March, transplant to tunnel - keep >50F, sow q2wks through July |
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Celery
| 57 | 7" | 5" x 11" | Companions: Bean, cabbage family, leek, onion, spinach and tomato. Flowers for celery: cosmos, daisies and snapdragons. Foes: Corn, Irish potato and aster flowers. Carrots can be infected with aster yellow disease from asters. |
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Chamomile
| 42 | 11" | 9" x 1' 3" | Improves flavor of cabbages, cucumbers and onions. Host to hoverflies and wasps. Accumulates calcium, potassium and sulfur, later returning them to the soil. Increases oil production from herbs. Leave some flowers unpicked and German chamomile will reseed itself. Roman chamomile is a low growing perennial that will tolerate almost any soil conditions. Both like full sun. Growing chamomile of any type is considered a tonic for anything you grow in the garden. |
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Chives
| 113 | 7" | 5" x 9" | |
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Corn
Seneca Chief
| 50 | 1' 5" | 1' 5" x 1' 5" | |
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Corn
Luscious (F1) (se+) (OG)Produc
| 50 | 1' 5" | 1' 5" x 1' 3" | Amaranth, beans, cucumber, white geranium, lamb's quarters, melons, morning glory, parsley, peanuts, peas, potato, pumpkin, soybeans, squash and sunflower. A classic example is to grow climbing beans up corn while inter-planting pumpkins. The corn provides a natural trellis for the beans, pumpkins smother the weeds and helps corn roots retain moisture. Corn is a heavy feeder and the beans fix nitrogen from air into the soil however the beans do not feed the corn while it is growing. When the bean plants die back they return nitrogen to the soil that was used up by the corn. A win-win situation. Another interesting helper for corn is the weed Pig's Thistle which raises nutrients from the subsoil to where the corn can reach them. Keep corn away from celery and tomato plants by at least 20 feet. |
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Corn
Silver Queen
| 50 | 1' 5" | 1' 5" x 1' 5" | |
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Crimson Clover
| 4840 | 3" | 3" x 3" | |
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Cucumber
Sweet Success
| 57 | 11" | 11" x 11" | TRELLIS; Cucumbers are great to plant with corn and beans. The three plants like the same conditions: warmth, rich soil and plenty of moisture. Let the cucumbers grow up and over your corn plants. Cukes also do well with peas, beets, radishes and carrots. Radishes are a good deterrent against cucumber beetles. Dill planted with cucumbers helps by attracting beneficial predators. Nasturtium improves growth and flavor. Keep sage, potatoes and rue away from cucumbers. It is said that cucumbers don't do well planted next to tomatoes. We have never had a problem with planting them next to each other. |
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Dill
| 604 | 7" | 5" x 9" | Improves growth and health of cabbage. Do not plant near carrots, caraway, lavendar or tomatoes. Best friend for lettuce. The flower heads of dill are one of the best nectar sources for beneficial insects in the garden attracting hoverflies, predatory wasps and many more. Repels aphids and spider mites to some degree. Also may repel the dreaded squash bug! (scatter some good size dill leaves on plants that are subject to squash bugs, like squash plants.) Dill goes well with lettuce, onions, cabbage, sweet corn and cucumbers. Dill does attract the tomato horn worm so it would be wise to plant it somewhere away from your tomato plants. |
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Echinacea
| 20 | 1' 1" | 11" x 1' 3" | |
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Edamame
| 204 | 9" | 7" x 1' 3" | They add nitrogen to the soil making them a good companion to corn. They repel chinch bugs and Japanese beetles |
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Eggplant
| 42 | 1' 3" | 1' 1" x 1' 5" | Plant with amaranth, beans, peas, spinach, tarragon, thyme and marigold. Eggplant is a member of the nightshade family and does well with peppers as they like the same growing conditions. |
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Flower
Nasturtiums - Alaska
| 126 | 7" | 5" x 7" | Nasturtium is an excellent companion for many plants. It is a companion to radishes, cabbage family plants (cabbage, collards, cauliflower, kale, kohlrabi, broccoli and mustards), deterring aphids, squash bugs, and striped pumpkin beetles, and improving growth and flavor. Plant as a barrier around tomatoes, cabbage, cucumbers, and under fruit trees. Deters wooly aphids, whiteflies, cucumber beetles and other pests of the cucurbit family. Great trap crop for aphids (in particular the black aphids) which it does attract, especially the yellow flowering varieties. It likes poor soil with low moisture and no fertilizer. Keeping that in mind there is no reason not to set potted nasturtiums among your garden beds. It has been the practice of some fruit growers that planting nasturtiums every year in the root zone of fruit trees allow the trees to take up the pungent odor of the plants and repel bugs. Studies say it is among the best at attracting predatory insects. It has no taste effect o |
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Flower
Marigolds
| 39 | 7" | 5" x 7" | |
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Flower
Wormwood, Black-Stemmed
| 7 | 2' 5" | 2' 5" x 2' 5" | |
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Flower
Columbine
| 38 | 11" | 11" x 11" | |
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Grape Vine
| 16 | 4' 11" | 4' 11" x 4' 11" | Hyssop is beneficial to grapes as are basil, beans, geraniums, oregano, clover, peas, or blackberries. Keep radishes and cabbage away from grapes. Planting clover increases the soil fertility for grapes. Chives with grapes help repel aphids. Plant your vines under Elm or Mulberry trees. |
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Hairy Vetch
| 108 | 3" | 3" x 3" | |
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Horseradish
| 2 | 1' 1" | 1' 1" x 1' 1" | Plant in containers in the potato patch to keep away Colorado potato bugs. Horseradish increases the disease resistance of potatoes. There are some very effective insect sprays that can be made with the root. Use the bottomless pot method to keep horseradish contained. Also repels Blister beetles. We have observed that the root can yield anti-fungal properties when a tea is made from it |
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Jerusalem Artichoke
| 6 | 1' 11" | 1' 11" x 1' 11" | Plant tubers 5 deep with 24 between each. The rows should be 3 feet apart. Jerusalem Artichoke can take over your vegetable (or flower) garden, if you dont keep it contained. To improve the quality of the harvest, cut off the flower heads when theyre buds. Harvest the tubers in 4 or 5 months, after the leaves turn yellow. Its best to leave them in the soil and dig up as needed.
If you don't want a crop of Jerusalem Artichokes growing in the same location next gardening season, be sure to clear every piece of root.
Harvest the remainder of the crop before the ground freezes.
Plant with pole beans and cukes
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Kohlrabi
Winner
| 90 | 7" | 7" x 7" | |
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Lavender
| 10 | 1' 3" | 1' 1" x 1' 7" | |
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Lettuce (Crisphead)
Crispino
| 85 | 9" | 7" x 11" | Sow q2wks |
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Melon
Cold Star Cantaloupe
| 36 | 11" | 11" x 11" | TRELLIS - Companions: Corn, pumpkin, radish and squash. Other suggested helpers for melons are as follows: Marigold deters beetles, nasturtium deters bugs and beetles. Oregano provides general pest protection. |
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Melon
Sweet Granite (OG)
| 36 | 11" | 11" x 11" | TRELLIS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMzjsCDJ7Hw |
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Monarda
| 24 | 11" | 11" x 1' 7" | Plant with tomatoes to improve growth and flavor. Great for attracting beneficials and bees of course. Pretty perennial that tends to get powdery mildew. |
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Mustard
| 37 | 5" | 5" x 5" | |
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Okra
| 19 | 1' 7" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | (Hibiscus esculentus ) Plant lettuce around your okra plants and they will shade the lettuce in the summer giving you some more growing time. Okra also does well with peppers and eggplants as it helps protect these brittle stemmed plants from high winds. It also gets along with basil, cucumbers, melons, and black eyed peas. For planting with the peas plant your Okra first. When the okra is up and established plant the peas around the edges of the okra planting. You may find that the peas are far less bothered by aphids when near okra. |
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Onion
| 98 | 5" | 3" x 7" | |
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Onion
Redwing (F1) (OG)
| 113 | 5" | 5" x 5" | |
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Onion
Copra
| 101 | 5" | 3" x 7" | |
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Onion (Fall planted)
| 70 | 5" | 5" x 9" | |
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Oregano
| 74 | 7" | 5" x 9" | |
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Other (Small)
Summer Savory
| 168 | 3" | 3" x 3" | |
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Parsley
| 170 | 5" | 3" x 9" | |
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Peas
Strike - Early
| 456 | 5" | 5" x 7" | |
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Peas
Maestro - Fall
| 1197 | 3" | 3" x 7" | |
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Peas
| 87 | 3" | 3" x 7" | |
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Peas
Lincoln - Main
| 575 | 5" | 5" x 7" | Peas fix nitrogen in the soil. Plant next to corn. Companions for peas are bush beans, bole beans, carrots, celery, chicory, corn, cucumber, eggplant, parsley, early potato, radish, spinach, strawberry, sweet pepper, tomatoes and turnips. Do not plant peas with chives, gladiolus, grapes, late potatoes or onions. |
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Pepper
Thai Chilis
| 57 | 11" | 11" x 11" | TRELLIS |
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Pepper
Yankee Bell
| 56 | 11" | 11" x 11" | TRELLIS - Plant peppers near tomatoes, parsley, basil, geraniums, marjoram, lovage, petunia and carrots. Onions make an excellent companion plant for peppers. They do quite well with okra as it shelters them and protects the brittle stems from wind. Don't plant them near fennel or kohlrabi. They should also not be grown near apricot trees because a fungus that the pepper is prone to can cause a lot of harm to the apricot tree. Peppers can double as ornamentals, so tuck some into flowerbeds and borders. Harvesting tip: The traditional bell pepper, for example, is harvested green, even though most varieties will mature red, orange, or yellow. Peppers can be harvested at any stage of growth, but their flavor doesn't fully develop until maturity. |
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Pepper
Early Jalapeno (OG)
| 22 | 1' 2" | 1' 2" x 1' 3" | |
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Pepper
Jalapenos
| 27 | 11" | 11" x 11" | TRELLIS |
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Pepper
Joe's Long Cayenne (OG)
| 56 | 11" | 11" x 11" | TRELLIS - Chili peppers have root exudates that prevent root rot and other Fusarium diseases. Plant anywhere you have these problems. While you should always plant chili peppers close together, providing shelter from the sun with other plants will help keep them from drying out and provide more humidity. Tomato plants, green peppers, and okra are good protection for them. Teas made from hot peppers can be useful as insect sprays. Hot peppers like to be grouped with cucumbers, eggplant, escarole, tomato, okra, Swiss chard and squash. Herbs to plant near them include: basils, oregano, parsley and rosemary. Never put them next to any beans, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts or fennel. |
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Potatoes (Early)
Yukon Gold (OG)
| 18 | 1' 3" | 1' 1" x 1' 7" | |
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Potatoes (Early)
Dark Red Norland (OG)
| 8 | 1' 5" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | |
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Potatoes (Early)
Rose Gold
| 22 | 11" | 11" x 1' 1" | |
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Potatoes (Maincrop)
Kennebec (OG)
| 50 | 1' 5" | 1' 1" x 2' 5" | Companions for potatoes are bush bean, members of the cabbage family, carrot, celery, corn, dead nettle, flax, horseradish, marigold, peas, petunia, onion and Tagetes marigold. Protect them from scab by putting comfrey leaves in with your potato sets at planting time. Horseradish, planted at the corners of the potato patch, provides general protection. Alyssum makes a perfect living mulch for them. Don't plant these around potatoes: asparagus, cucumber, kohlrabi, parsnip, pumpkin, rutabaga, squash family, sunflower, turnip and fennel. Keep potatoes and tomatoes apart as they both can get early and late blight contaminating each other. |
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Pumpkin
New England Pie (OG)
| 54 | 1' 11" | 1' 11" x 1' 11" | |
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Radish
| 847 | 3" | 3" x 7" | Their pals are leaf lettuce, onions and tomatoes. Plant dill and parsnips away from carrots. Flax produces an oil that may protect root vegetables like carrots from some pests. One drawback with tomatoes and carrots: tomato plants can stunt the growth of your carrots but the carrots will still be of good flavor. |
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Rhubarb
| 6 | 2' 11" | 2' 11" x 2' 11" | A good companion to all brassicas. Try planting cabbage and broccoli plants your rhubarb patch watch them thrive. Rhubarb protects beans against black fly. Some other interesting companions for rhubarb are the beautiful columbine flowers, garlic, onion and roses! It helps deter red spider mites from the columbines. A spray made from boiled rhubarb leaves, which contain the poison oxalic acid may be used to prevent blackspot on roses and as an aphicide. |
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Rutabaga
| 63 | 9" | 7" x 1' 3" | Rutabaga seeds should be planted one-half inch deep, and the rows should be approximately 15 inches apart. The plants should be thinned in early summer to nine inches apart.
Hairy vetch and rutabagas are excellent companions. Aphids will stay off rutabaga leaves (and turnip leaves) because vetch shelters ladybugs, which feast on aphids. Wood ashes around rutabagas will control scab.20 |
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Spinach
| 111 | 7" | 5" x 11" | |
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Squash (Summer)
Sunray Yellow
| 38 | 11" | 11" x 11" | Trellis - preferably on a trellis wider than the bed and plenty tall. Pinch the main runner when it gets tot he top of hte trellis to encourage side shoots. In July, you can replant staggered between the initial vines and get a second crop growing, just cut off the first vines at the base as (if) they die back / fade out and the new vines look ready to start producing themselves |
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Squash (Winter)
Waltham Butternut (OG)
| 50 | 11" | 11" x 11" | TRELLIS - preferably on a trellis wider than the bed and plenty tall. Pinch the main runner when it gets tot he top of hte trellis to encourage side shoots. In July, you can replant staggered between the initial vines and get a second crop growing, just cut off the first vines at the base as (if) they die back / fade out and the new vines look ready to start producing themselves |
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Squash (Winter)
Honey Bear Acorn
| 20 | 1' 5" | 1' 5" x 1' 5" | |
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Squash (Winter)
Spaghetti - trellis
| 58 | 11" | 11" x 11" | |
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Strawberry
Sparkle
| 128 | 11" | 11" x 1' 5" | |
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Strawberry
Honeoye
| 128 | 11" | 11" x 1' 5" | Friends are beans, borage, lettuce, onions, spinach and thyme. Foes: Cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and kohlrabi. Allies: Borage strengthens resistance to insects and disease. Thyme, as a border, deters worms |
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Strawberry
Jewel
| 128 | 11" | 11" x 1' 5" | |
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Tarragon
| 20 | 1' 3" | 1' 3" x 1' 7" | |
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Thyme
| 121 | 11" | 11" x 1' 3" | |
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Tomato (Small)
Sun Gold - Cherry
| 56 | 11" | 11" x 11" | TRELLIS |
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Tomato (Small)
Roma
| 54 | 11" | 11" x 11" | TRELLIS |
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Tomato (Small)
Big Beef - Trellis
| 46 | 1' 2" | 1' 2" x 11" | Tomato allies are many: asparagus, basil, bean, carrots, celery, chive, cucumber, garlic, head lettuce, marigold, mint, nasturtium, onion, parsley, pea, pepper, marigold, pot marigold and sow thistle. One drawback with tomatoes and carrots: tomato plants can stunt the growth of your carrots but the carrots will still be of good flavor. Basil repels flies and mosquitoes, improves growth and flavor. Bee balm, chives and mint improve health and flavor. Borage deters tomato worm, improves growth and flavor. Dill, until mature, improves growth and health, mature dill retards tomato growth. Enemies: corn and tomato are attacked by the same worm. Kohlrabi stunts tomato growth. Keep potatoes and tomatoes apart as they both can get early and late blight contaminating each other. Keep apricot, dill, fennel, cabbage and cauliflower away from them. Don't plant them under walnut trees as they will get walnut wilt: a disease that attacks tomatoes growing underneath these trees. |
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Tomato (Small)
Black Cherry (OG)
| 54 | 11" | 11" x 11" | TRELLIS |
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Turnip
Purple Top White Globe (OG)
| 171 | 3" | 3" x 11" | |
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Turnip
| 84 | 7" | 5" x 11" | Peas are good companions for turnips due to their nitrogen fixing in the soil. Cabbage does well with turnips because of the turnip's tendency to repel certain pests. Do not plant potatoes, radishes or other root vegetables near your turnips. These vegetables will compete for nutrients with the turnips and reduce crop size and yield. Other plants that do not do well with turnips are delphinium, larkspur and mustard. |
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Watermelon
Little Baby Flower (F1)
| 38 | 11" | 11" x 11" | Trellis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMzjsCDJ7Hw |
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Zucchini
Rampicante - trellis
| 40 | 11" | 11" x 11" | TRELLIS - preferably on a trellis wider than the bed and plenty tall. Pinch the main runner when it gets tot he top of hte trellis to encourage side shoots. In July, you can replant staggered between the initial vines and get a second crop growing, just cut off the first vines at the base as (if) they die back / fade out and the new vines look ready to start producing themselves |