Why Companion Planting Works (The Science Behind The Magic)
Some plants are just better off with a friend, and in this video I break down exactly why that might be and share some common plant combo's that work every time!
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:50 - Protective Mechanism
01:32 - Weed Control
02:54 - Trap Crops
04:55 - Soil Borne Diseases & Plant Resistance
05:44 - Companion Planting Combo
06:16 - Nitrogen Fixers
07:29 - Pollination Companion Planting
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This information is so helpful, Kevin. Thank you! I'm learning so much from you and your team. And, I'm soooo happy you bought Botanical Interests seed company! I have purchased their seeds for years, and I'm grateful that their good name and company is awesome new hands.
Thank you so much my friend! We're doing our best :)
Wow, I had no idea he bought Botanical Interests, I prefer to buy their seeds as well.
I just bought from botanicalinterests for first time. More expensive but I really like seed pack
Also, I can’t emphasize enough how beneficial it is to have birdhouses near your garden. Every year, either bluebirds or chickadees nest, and they spend their days grabbing caterpillars off my vegetable plants to feed to their young. In fact, having bird baths and feeders helps too as I’ve see all sorts of birds eating insects from my raised beds including cardinals. I plant a lot of zinnia as well, and the yellow finches go to town late in the season gobbling up the seeds. Birds love landing on the cattle panel trellises and wire mesh arches I have set up.
My best pest control!❤
I was expecting you to talk about Marigolds. My mom said to me once, “Don’t buy tomatoes unless you plan to buy marigolds.” Plus there the cutest flowers.
Also, marigold flower petals are edible and each variety has its own taste. You can use the whole flower to make ice cream.
My marigolds got sick and ruin my tomatoes they where to close
Marigolds keep the bugs away that eat them
Would calendula be a good candidate too? I gave a ton of calendula and tomato seedlings that I haven't decided on a spot for yet
@@meredithd95a good plant is nasturtium I heard. It helps attract bugs that may kill your plants away from them and to the nasturtium. I’ve tried this a so far the slugs have been eating the nasturtium rather than my seedlings. You can also use nasturtium for medicinal purposes too such as a salve or even butter
This year we planted green onions and marigolds with our tomatoes. They repel pests and protect the tomatoes.
And they’re beautiful!
Just came here to say that marigolds are great for this!
@@brandon8900 yeah I have them planted with my peppers too.
@@ThirdCoastGardening I have a lot of marigolds as well I've started indoors. Unfortunately it's still to early to put outside and some are blooming inside lol.
@@brandon8900 I’m zone 9.
Something you touched on briefly: if you're planting sacrificial plants to attract pests, you really want to make sure to kill those pests before they reproduce. I garden at a community garden where some gardeners compensate for pests by overplanting squash in hopes of having more than the bugs can eat, and the garden is now absolutely overrun with squash bugs and vine borers.
Yep, fantastic point
Something else to think about is to get plants to full photosynthetic capacity. It's being found that plants reaching above certain brix levels will not and arguably cannot be eaten by pests. Sounds too good to be true, right? kzhead.info/sun/ldKHf9p5apafd40/bejne.html
Yes. I found 'sacrificial nasurtiums' attracted WAY more cabbage butterflies to my garden than I ever had before
@@cassieoz1702 Rosemary will help repel the cabbage moths. But it needs to be either well established or heavily planted around the cabbages. I started with two rosemary's and six cabbages last summer and ended up planting an additional five rosemary's before the cabbage moths finally got the hint and stayed away. Bonus for me though...I love fresh rosemary and the cabbages turned out super yummy :)
@@cassieoz1702 ditto. I use bacillus thurigiensis on my tomatoes to combat tuta absoluta and read that it also deals with cabbage white caterpillars. It does too. And as it is a naturally occurring soil bacillus you arent spraying bad chemicals. I read research that suggests that it is also more effective against tuta than chemical sprays.
Oo please more videos like this! Companion planting is very helpful. It’s also helpful to note which plants don’t go together. Any help would be appreciated!
I second this! companion planting is a little daunting to me as I have never done it before and don't wish to mess up. This video was great.
It's all the other stuff, dummy.
I unknowingly planted a super aphid attractor in my garden last year. I wanted color and attract pollinator's and maybe a few cut flowers. My veggies seemed to be doing a lot better with fewer pests for some reason and when I went to cut some flowers, I noticed the whole plant was covered in aphids but none on my crops. They were all on this bright orange "Mexican Sunflower". I will be planting this again this year but in a bigger area. This plant was loaded with flowers, grew around 8 to 9 feet tall and 3 to 4 feet wide. It attracted butterflies, humming birds and bees. I have never seen so many Monarch butterflies and humming birds in all the years I've been gardening.
Is the specific plant you had such success with is Tithonia rotundifolia? There are purportedly 10-15 species & I want to plant the correct one. Thank you so very much for posting this comment.
@@DanceintheRaine666 Yes, that is the one. Tithonia rotundifolia Torch. Beautiful, huge plant with endless flowers.
that's amazing!! and i think i bought seeds for that actually. that's great that it even got hummers :D
for the record, the little buddy at 3:45 isn't a stink bug! it's a leaffooted bug, which can still be a garden pest, but please know that beneficial assassin bugs are often visually very similar to stink and leaffooted bugs. as I said, leaffooted bugs are still considered garden pests, but it's a good idea for any gardenener to learn their local insects and work with the beneficial ones! it could be a really great video idea to try out some methods for attracting beneficial insects to see if they help you out at all: the xerces society has an excellent book on the topic, and there is tons of info online. EDIT: brachonid wasps! an excellent addition, brachonids and other parasitoid wasps have the dual benefit of pollination and pest control, I love them dearly.
Yep, we accidentally added the wrong bug! Appreciate the correction
I thought it was a western conifer seed bug until I looked closer. This clarified thanks! They look similar.
We call them stink bugs as well. A nightmare to deal with but good info to share.
Wait so this bug in the video is an assassin bug? I had a huge infestation of stink bugs on my pomegranate tree last year during fall, they looked similar to these.
Please please please do more videos like this. This is my first year growing in raider beds rather then individual containers. I want to badly to do companion gardening but is so confusing from my perspective.
planting flowers with my plants was one of the best things ive done. Instantly started seeing WAY more polinaters and started getting much better yeilds. On top of that, you get the nice aroma and looks of flowers. It's a win win win
in the community garden i was with before moving out of state, they always planted zinnias and things straight up through everywhere. but also sunflowers and stuff. always thought it looked cool. hadn't realized they did it for pests. partly because things were said like, 'zinnias just look so good. and you can cut them for vases if you want'.
Be aware they will attract aphids and spider mites
@@mita694ever yummy food for the lady bugs
We took out our scrabbly lawn - it was there when we bought the house two years ago - that took lots of water and we live in Canada's almost desert- and replaced it with a lawn alternative blend that is filled with pollinators and is xeriscaping friendly. This will grow all around my raised beds. I'm so excited!
Love hearing this!
Hello Birdie, how're you doing?
Your videos are an antidote to all the rotten crap that gets spread around on social media. ❤
Means a lot to hear
Down with all the five minute crap channels. We support quality channels like Kevin and Jacques!
This is a little off topic, but using plants to attract pest reminded me of something I read in Pam Dawlings book 'Sustainable Market Farming". She talks about he own traps, but in a different sense. So you had bad bean beetles last year, they will be hungry in the spring. Her Idea was to plant an early bed of beans or peas, and when the beetles expend most of a life cycles energy in that patch, you take a propane torch to the whole thing, breaking the generational cycle. Then you plant your beans you intend to harvest. After a real bad infestation this could be done multiple times until results are seen.
I garden in containers and I want to garden as organically as possible. This was helpful in my understanding of why certain things do and dont work. Using cucumbers to shade my leafy greens through the summer was probably last years best garden decision for me.
Hello dear, Nice to meet you where are you from?
If you find an earthworm place him in your container. Then feed him with some kitchen scraps ever so often. I do this to all my container plants. They grow 10x better.
@@coryhyatt2035 will do, thanks!
Just a thought - it would be awesome if your search function at Botanical Interests would be able to filter either by region, planting zone or even native species.
We are working on a massive improvement to the entire store very soon!
i second this! when i was shopping the sale for seeds i started getting overwhelmed by trying to double check zones on everything. would have liked to just plug in 'tomato' and ok at zone 7. : ) same for flowers.
On nitrogen fixation: you actually don’t get nitrogen fixation if you harvest a crop from the beans/peas/legumes. To get the nitrogen benefits in the soil you have to terminate the plant before it sets seed, otherwise the nitrogen goes into the seed production and you won’t get it from the roots even if left in the ground. 👍
Oh, and it’s best practice to inoculate if you’re looking for N fixation! We just did a vid on this on our channel. ❤
Yes exactly!
This is one of my favorite videos that you have done ever! I guess maybe I wasn’t paying attention before two because I didn’t realize botanical interest was your seed company. My son lives in Colorado right near the place! I have had seeds sent from there to me in Illinois and now I will make sure that I purchase more from your company because I want to support you for such fantastic videos. Keep them coming!
A solid intercropping of nitrogen fixers and tillage radish are the two big ones for me. To help with soil conditioning. The other option I really like is actually trap crop companion planting with radishes because flea beetles are a nightmare where I am.
Oh never considered radishes as a trap! Great idea Ashley
@@epicgardening they go totally wild for baby radishes. Use microgreens to save some $$
@Disabled-Megatron very true. Although I typically burn the trap crop with the bugs 🤣 so it’s more charcoal
My two faves chatting. That's awesome. Radish as a trap..I may have to try it this year.
I’ve been planting African purple basil and marigolds with my tomatoes the past few years. Last year I also threw my extra onion greens in between the buckets I grow them in and had no pest issues with the tomatoes at all! This year I started haunting the garden centers earlier so I could find alliums to intersperse instead of the onion tops. The reason I use the African basil is because it very quickly bolts and grows a ton of flowers and really stinks the place up with that basil scent.
Chinese basil grows wild in my garden. Where it grows, the cabbage hornworms, etc, do no damage. It isn't quite as pungent as other strains, but it works quite well in soups and stews.
Id love to see companions and that mix planting video cause i have recently learned this about never just planting veggies. And having random cilantro dill and basil And random alyssums dwarf zinnias and dahlias, welsh onions too nasturtiums. They are just so important and its more obvious when you have them established early to see the benefits in your sprays for pest because you've established a home for soooo many good things. Like having very early as hell planted cilantro that's gonna bolt in a couple weeks too.
Growing native plants to attract pollinators is also a nice way to help the native plants and species that rely on them, so it's a win win win and maybe a 4th win since if you help out native species you make it harder (although by how much I have no idea) for invasives!
I am reading a book called Plant Partners: Science-Based Companion Planting Strategies for the Vegetable Garden by Jessica Walliser that goes in-depth into this topic! Would highly recommend Only discovered your channel a few weeks ago, and am greatly enjoying it, thank you!. Especially your clear explanations of basic topics that is helping a beginner city plant grower trying to make use of limited balcony space
Jessica's book is amazing, we've learned a lot from it!
Thank you for the recommendation!
I don't worry when things bolt (our springs tend to be punctuated with bouts of really hot weather, sigh) and just let them become first flowers for pollinators and then chop and drop mulch or turned if they are in the way for the next crop. Endive turns into chicory, radishes have delicate pink flowers, carrots are lovely.
Love that approach
I have several "weeds" with flowers that freely self-sow in my yard and come back every year. Bidens alba, spiderwort, Florida betony, beautyberry. I love that they are native, pretty, and help with my vegetables!
Hi, how're you doing?
I love Botanical Interests! Some of the best-quality and most diverse seed selection out there. Excellent.
Glad to hear!
Thank you for this info! I’m interested in more companion videos! I’m always looking for more ideas to mix flowers with veg in my beds and containers.
I love seeing the science behind plants, in general. There’s also something to learn that benefits you, learning = more harvests. Or just learning = awesome lol. I love plants, gardening, so fun. I CANT WAIT TO START PLANTING!
Yes, I would love a whole video on vegetable and flower combinations!
Calendula is my favorite trap crop! Aphids go nuts for it and stay off of everything else!
Do you plant your calendulas in the beds with your veggies, or in a separate bed so the aphids don't move next door to the stuff you're trying to keep safe?
@@m.dilitto5488 everything is mixed together in my garden! Even when the calendula was touching other plants, aphids stayed put on it!
@@michelleh4588 awesome, thanks for the info!
This is great info, thanks for sharing! One thing to keep in mind is that Sweet Alyssum is native to Europe and is considered to be invasive in some jurisdictions as it spreads rapidly as a ground cover. If possible, choose another type of flower that spreads less aggressively.
Oh if only that was my original in KS! I'm lucky to have the blooming plants last even 1 month!
But Alyssa doesn't overwinter in the north.
Omg this video blew my mind! I want to learn so much more on companion planting I've devoted this day to researching it. I'm adding more beauty and bug detractors to my garden this year. This was absolutely my favorite video today. It was so informative. Thank you a bunch. ❤
I’m Big into companion planting, and I Loved this video! Thanks for explaining the nutrients within the soil. ❤ I have learned so much from you.
Great video and to-the-point as always. Thank you! Something I learned about native bird habitats recently that works with pollinators is that by grouping multiples of the same plant instead of spreading it in different areas throughout the landscape it can help keep those pollinators in the same area for longer so they don’t have to jump around as much. This applies to more larger areas than it does the average backyard. But still. The more you know! Looking forward to more videos on companion planting.
Yes! Please make more floral/veg companion idea vids
This is epic! I love companion planting in my little garden, but I’ve learned so much today…thanks to you 🌷👍🏻💜
I'm always amazed at all the different vegetables you are able to garden all at once. In my zone, I wish I would do this but we can only grow certain things during certain seasons. I love this video though and would love more companion plant ideas. I try to google them sometimes and they contradict themselves.
Good video Kevin. Companion planting is one I am constantly trying to learn and do.
A big one for tomatoes is growing marigolds or tagetes with them. Marigolds are fantastic companions plants. Another combination is onion with carrots to prevent the carrot fly. But be careful some plants don’t like going together/ shouldn’t be together e.g. potato and tomato.(Perhaps another video). I’ve seen vegetable grown in herbaceous borders (RHS bridgewater) and have got good crops. Not a companion plant but carrots with radish sow you carrot row then radish to mark out your carrots rows, harvest and eat radish just as your carrots start to show.
South Florida boy here, love the channel and products, you've helped teach me a great deal for my challenging climate in SWFL. I grow a lot of the tropical fruit stuff but vegetables are such a different ball game where I'm at so thanks again. : - )
Try tomatos, eggplants, and banana peppers. I'm also in s.fl and right now they're really taking off. We have them all in repurposed containers, some with basil and alyssum, or onions and garlic. The basil seems to be keeping pests away.
Appreciate you my friend!
Something I read yesterday that I haven't seen shared anywhere else is that Thyme growing next to Eggplant improves the Eggplants flavor, first time I've heard of a flavor changing companion planting but immediately took some Thyme cuttings and plugged them in by my Eggplants so we'll see.
Another alleged flavor enhancer is borage (a herb) planted with strawberries.
@@whitewolf262 I can't with borage. I've tried twice now and it starts to look big n healthy then rots and dies. Supposedly Lavender and Rosemary are the hard herbs to grow but I've got both of those growing, borage just doesn't like all the natural amounts of rain I guess and isn't hardy enough to wait it out.
@@ziggybender9125 That sounds like a fungal problem, it's pretty common in borage in wetter climes unfortunately
@@whitewolf262 Yeah I'm happy enough just working with the plants that are willing to grow in my area, everything else sounds like an uphill battle and costs money.
Lovin' it and it's been through your videos these past three years that I've learned so much about companion planting and soil health ~ I always appreciate the new content! I will say I was very sad to see you did NOT include the most important garden companion this time around: where's Jacques??? You and he are the best companions! 😆
Your channel is my go to for any garden info I need. I know different zones mean different tips but for me being in kern county california is way different than San Diego., your tips are great! I'm in my 4th season and it gets better every year. Thank you for all the great info
Companion Planting is fantastic! It’s the basis for Permaculture and helps everything thrive. You can get more of a mix of things through both Inter Cropping and Permaculture together.
Great video Kevin & Crew! Cucumber & mustard info is new and helpful to me! Thinking of loading up some mustard greens in the Urban Worm Bag to prep the output. Thoughts? Also, happy sunshine! Our gardens have been missing days like today 🌞. Keep on growing!
Great post! I am excited to learn more about companion/interplanting! It also helps maximize the space in the garden too! 😊
Definitely do a companion video for cucumber, tomato, and basil please. 🙌🏻😯 A whole series on companion combinations would be awesome
I'm saving this to watch later, again and again! So much information presented so concisely, thank you!
This is the first year I've planted with companion plants, so im excited to see how it works out! One of the big questions we had though while actually putting everything in the ground is how to judge spacing. One website said the average between the two plants spacing, but in your beds I see plants much closer than what we ended up doing. If you make another companion planting video I'd love to see a guide on how to judge what can be right next to eachother and who needs some room :) Also, thank you for all the fantastic gardening videos, I dont think I could have gotten to this point without them!
Thanks for the kind words Chrissy - I'll do one on spacing for sure, maybe a fresh bed build out
Oh my gosh Kevin! This is exactly what I was looking for. BTW just today I put up the 6 Birdies beds I ordered from your store! filled with cardboard and sticks to save money on my soil. Then several bags of top-quality soil/compost. Added some fiberglass half hoops in PVC pipe on the sides and ready to plant and cover with greenhouse plastic film (live in Ohio - still not out of our frost date) for those things that cannot tolerate the cold. I am attempting to convince my significant other to help me buy more so he doesn't have to build me additional raised beds. My garden this year is going to be EPIC!! thanks for everything you do - also cannot wait to plant my seeds from Botanical Interests ;)
Hey, thanks so much for making this, my paw paw(grandad in mitchif) would always do this around the season's change. Now i can learn it too! Thank you! So much for this it brought a nice memory to me. :D
we need more of these types of video Kev, the popular produce / herbs usually bought in supermarkets / farmers markets and the ideal companion plant/s to them. I love me some tomatoes but it's only now that I realize I should be planting companion plants with them to improve their output and longevity.
Coming up with different interplantings is honestly one of my favorite parts of every season. It helps with creating a healthier ecosystem and it makes the garden so much more pleasing to be in. I have a minimum of 2-3 different herbs, flowers and aliums for each section of the garden. I'll absolutely be trying out your tip about pairing sweet alyssum with my tomatoes in addition to basil and marigold. I also really like the idea of planting cucumbers with them. I have a permanent trellis system and I think they'd do well planted around the posts. Camouflaging foliage is another good reason for interplanting. A lot of garden pests, including animals, identify food sources based on leaf shape. I'm planning on planting cucamelons and Malabar in amongst my pole beans this year. Learned my lesson after losing almost all of my trionfo violetta beans last year. Something came along and ate just the stems about a foot up the trellis. Not letting it happen again.
Your voice is so relaxing, so calm!
Exactly the video I was looking for! Thank you for all your amazing content and awesome energy ❤❤
Early in this video you mentioned Purslane- which led me to a thought. When I first started planting the raised beds at my new property, I had lots of voluntary "weeds". After some ID work, I discovered all were edible. Even ragweed has a medicinal use- but I pull it. Whenever Shiso (Chinese Basil) or lamb's quarters, or dayflower, or purslane, or whatever overshadows my beds- I just make a meal of them! (In the case of Shiso- they go through the dehydrator for cooking herbs.) The "weeds" keep down lesser weeds, like ragweed, and become a tasty treat for me. Purslane is quite good, BTW.
Hi Kevin, thanks for all the great videos. Just commenting an idea I had when I seen your metal planter in what looks like the front yard where flowers are hanging off the edge a bit. It would only take an angle grinder and a pry bar to create pockets like those strawberry planter towers. Would allow more space and cover the metal look.
3:05 hmmm Capucines... Pretty flowers, delictious to eat, grows everywhere, perenial, ... Love it!
Would love more videos on companion planting and flowers!! ❤
Okay, this is officially my new favorite youtibe video. I've learned so much and wish I had learned these years ago! My wife and I will definitely be using many of these techniques this year!!
Very helpful! We just built two 8'x4' raised beds we're learning how to garden for my kid's homeschool. We're trying some companion planting too. Your channel is my son's favorite that we watch! Thanks!
Say hi to him for us!
Fennel…. Plant it and just let it GO. You’ll get pretty umbrellas of flowers that the bees love. Also, I’m in Oregon and really struggle with slugs. Chopped a few grapefruit and scattered them around. Slugs go for them first, and I just keep replacing the wedges. Worked perfect!
And I place containers of cheap beer in plastic food tubs when done with food. Cut a flap into the lids and bury it to soil height. Slugs crawl in for the beer smell and drown. I replace after our trains a lot and dilutes the beer
Did you try eggshells against them?
Thanks again Kevin! Always great advice.
Kevin... you're so smart. Thank you for this helpful video. I also just realized you own my favorite seed company---Botanical Interests. Great seeds and germination success!
I've learned new thing today thanks to you ! I did not know about the cucumber's capacity to inhibit weeds. Great educationnal content as always :)
That was exactly the information/inspiration I needed to see today, thanks Kevin!
wanna get into container gardening soon and i think it'll be fun to try to get more than one crop out of a small space as well as enjoying the benefits of planting complimentary things together. thanks for this info juuust maybe not the gross stuff lol parasite bugs are freaky!
Nasturtium flowers are beautiful in salads and the leaves can grow big enough to use as small wraps. I make a version of spring rolls with them. In the Seattle area they self sow......plant once and done!
when kevin does the pop up or out from behind cover to start a video, it makes me happy.
Great information!! Some I knew, a lot I didn’t! So thank you!!
I'll need to watch this again and take notes!
I planted a massive row of calendulas in the front yard garden, and it definitely keeps the neighborhood dogs from peeing and pooping on that side of the garden 😂 Doesn't really keep the kids from picking the flowers, but I don't mind that.
I planted corn and sugar snow peas together. Wow the corn was so good and grew well. We ate the corn raw after washing it and we were able to snack on the peas all spring and summer.
I was watching this video and thinking, we need to save it forever! so much knowledge, thank you for sharing!
Thank you. Finally, a video about this that actually explains it and is helpful
Lol seems like every time I look something up, Epic Garden is there ready to answer I super appreciate the info I'm just starting my big garden and hoping to make it awesome.
This guy is so knowledgeable. Thank you.
Oh wow I love the video very informative. I love to learn about companion in the garden 🪴
I'm just starting to get into gardening, and would like to say " thank you" with all the videos
"Look at farmers..." Literally what I did with my Dad. When it was my turn to start gardening and homesteading I went directly to him to learn.
Very informative. Thank you. This is an interesting subject for me ❤
Lupin flowers are in the legume family, they're very pretty and could work as an alternate to peas. Please do make more videos on companion planting, including what not to do.
Great video, Kevin. I enjoyed how you touched base on cover crops. Would enjoyed more videos on that topic too. I bought winter rye and mustards as cover crops based upon farmers feedback.
Will do, I did one last year but will do more soon!
So helpful, Kevin. Thank you!
Super helpful and interesting video!! Thanks for posting. I also heard that the nitrogen fixation in the roots is to prepare for seed development so once those bean and pea seeds fully develop, much of that nitrogen may leave the roots. So if you can cut the plant down leaving the roots before seeds are formed, the nitrogen fixation benefits should be even higher!
I knew I was onto something! I noticed I couldn't get anything to grow on the hillside behind my house. I started letting the grass grow around those plants, to hold onto the soil, and my seeds. Seeds still can't find, but I will try again, companion planting!! It is a real thing. I will never just grow 1 plant again.....thanks for confirming I was right...
I love this encouragement to “mix it up” without the BS we normally see in the interwebs. Ultimately, the is an opportunity to increase diversity.
Excellent video Kevin! ❤Love this channel!
Wonderful information, thanks for sharing.
Great vid. TY. I'm too new to tell you what I learned... Thanks again!
Excellent I gained a lot from this learning everyday one plant at a time
Super helpful! I’d like to see more on companion planting.
Great vid! I thought you said “wood bee 🐝 predators” at first, talking about your rose arch 🤣 Here in Florida I see strawberry farms interplant onions, literally 🍓🧅🍓🧅🍓🧅🍓🧅 in massive parcels. Our annual strawberry festival is typically bigger than the state fair!
I'll try this out!
Hello kerri, how're you doing?
Would this help with minimizing slug populations with the strawberries?
Good video. Would love to see more pairing ideas.
wow so proud of you I remember when you just started and now 2.3 million subs so cool you deserve the great success!
I like to use sunflowers to fix nitrogen and harvest the stems for sturdy, biodegradable trellises. They also attract pollinators like crazy!
I love your garden so much 💚💚💚
Stoked the Alyssum's a good tomato companion, I just put them in my planter corners because I love them and they're nice and hardy, little did I know there was more to it!
Thank you, this video was very helpful!
It's still is so amazing to me that you BOUGHT A SEED COMPANY!! 😲 Congratulations!
Botanical Interests is yours?! I had no idea! This was a great video. I already follow you on IG too. I do try to companion plant but the kids sometimes take my plants and go for it when I'm not looking. Hey, they're littles, if they're interested in gardening I'm not going to stop them. That said, I'm going to try and get more flowers for my veggie patches. The front side of my house I'm turning into a cottage garden (natives and some exotics, but all pollinator friendly) and the side has fruits and veggies, but now I'll add more than marigolds to it! I love your channel, thank you so much for the information!