Companion Plants Equals Better Growth

Alyssum 

Partners best with any flower or vegetable. Commercial farms sometimes plant this among their vegetable crops.

Benefits: Attracts bees and other pollinators. 

Borage

Partners best with tomatoes, pumpkins, squash, cucumbers, and a variety of plants. 

Benefits: Attracts bees and other pollinators. Deters tomato hornworm

Basil

Partners best with peppers, tomatoes, marigold

Benefits: Keeps flies and mosquitos away

Garlic

Partners best with roses, tomatoes, and a wide variety of flowers and vegetables.

Benefits: Wards off aphids and other insects and pests.

Mint

Partners best with cabbage and Broccoli

Benefits:  Deters cabbage moths

Marigold

Partners best with a wide variety of flowers and vegetables.

Benefits:  Wards off insects. They are also used in Organic Insect sprays.

Nasturtium

Partners best with pumpkins, squash, and a wide variety of vegetables.

Benefits: Deters cucumber beetles, squash bugs, aphids, and more. And they are edible!

Rosemary

Partners best with cabbage and broccoli

Benefits:  Deters cabbage moths and other pests

Sage

Partners best with carrots

Benefits:  Wards off carrot fly

Sunflower

Partners best with pole beans, cucumbers and other vining crops

Benefits: Allows plants to grow up the sunflower for healthier growth and cleaner vegetables. Grow plants in smaller space, too.

Thyme

Partners best with cabbage

Benefits:  Deters cabbage worm

Corn

Partners best with peas, pole beans, vining crops.

Benefits:  Makes a great pole for vining crops to grow up, while producing ears of corn, too.