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Using Companion Planting in Your Vegetable Garden

Principles and best practices for using companion planting in your vegetable garden to promote healthy plants by deterring pests and encouraging beneficial effects:

Buckwheat blossom in a vegetable garden

The Benefits of Growing Buckwheat

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Onions planted alongside carrots to protect against carrot fly

Companion Planting for Vegetable Gardens

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Bee and phacelia flower

Flowers for Vegetable Gardens

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Sorrel being grown next to lettuce and beans as a trap crop to keep slugs off

Trap Cropping to Control Pests

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Alcosa’ dwarf savoy cabbage rubs elbows with feverfew, which is avoided by many insects

Common-Sense Companion Planting

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