| | Plant | Number | Spacing | Spacing in Rows | Notes |
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Arugula
| 25 | 5" | 3" x 7" | Flea beetles eat me as well |
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Aster (China)
| 3 | 11" | 11" x 11" | |
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Beans (Dry)
| 24 | 9" | 7" x 1' 1" | Nitrogen fixation, puts nitrogen in the soil |
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Begonia
| 6 | 11" | 9" x 1' 1" | |
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Bluebell
| 32 | 3" | 3" x 3" | |
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Bok Choy
| 16 | 7" | 7" x 9" | Flea beetle eats it, and is deterred by minty plants such as thyme (intercropped). Mint covers the smell of bok choy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flea_beetle |
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Buckwheat
| 28 | 3" | 3" x 3" | |
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Cabbage (Summer)
| 2 | 1' 7" | 1' 5" x 1' 9" | Green imported cabbage worms, tansy helps deter them |
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Calendula
| 9 | 11" | 9" x 1' 11" | |
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Carrot
| 56 | 3" | 3" x 5" | |
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Celery
| 15 | 7" | 5" x 11" | |
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Chamomile
| 30 | 11" | 9" x 1' 3" | |
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Chives
| 26 | 7" | 5" x 9" | According to http://www.mnn.com/your-home/organic-farming-gardening/stories/12-plants-that-repel-unwanted-insects, chives: repel carrot flies, Japanese beetle and aphids.
Carrot needs it |
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Coleus
| 2 | 11" | 11" x 11" | |
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Cucumber
| 1 | 1' 11" | 1' 11" x 1' 11" | Cucumber beetles transmit an incurable disease called bacterial wilt. If you find that the stems of your seedlings are being eaten off, leaves are yellowing and wilting, and holes are appearing, you may have a striped or spotted cucumber beetle. Exclude them with floating rowcovers and tansy. Rowcover helps |
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Eggplant
| 4 | 1' 3" | 1' 1" x 1' 5" | Flea beetles eat this plant |
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Fruit (Bush)
| 3 | 2' 11" | 2' 11" x 2' 11" | Native birds often gorge themselves on native fruits. Protect ripening berries with lightweight cloth or bird netting. |
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Hairy Vetch
| 1 | 3" | 3" x 3" | |
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Lobelia
| 54 | 5" | 5" x 5" | Attracts braconid wasps which feed on moth, beetle and fly larvae, moth eggs, various insect pupae and adults. http://www.farmerfred.com/plants_that_attract_benefi.html
Eggplant, arugula needs it |
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Onions (Green)
| 49 | 3" | 3" x 3" | |
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Peanut
| 18 | 11" | 9" x 1' 1" | Legumes for nitrogen fixation |
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Potatoes (Maincrop)
| 7 | 1' 5" | 1' 1" x 2' 5" | Hornworms eat this |
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Raspberry
| 4 | 2' 3" | 1' 11" x 2' 11" | In spring, adult females deposit eggs between a double row of punctures made around stem tips. The eggs hatch in early summer and the whitish, brown-headed larvae bore several inches down the canes, overwinter at ground level, and emerge as adults in June.
Damage: Look for a double row of punctures around the stem tip where the adult female laid her eggs. Cane wilting above the egg punctures is common with the cane dying the following season.
Control: Remove wilted cane tips six inches below the damaged area and destroy the prunings. If chemical control is necessary, spray the cane tips with permethrin or carbaryl (e.g., Sevin) just before the first blossoms open.
http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/insects/find/raspberry-insect-pests-of-the-home-garden/ |
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Strawberry
| 6 | 1' 7" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | Slugs can be deterred with straw mulch or traps. Use lightweight cloth or netting to protect ripening berries from birds. |
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Tansy
| 6 | 1' 5" | 1' 3" x 2' 11" | Planted to deter cabbage worms that feed on surface layer of leaves. Planting tansy near your cabbage crops can also discourage them. In an example of the two-way street nature of companion planting, tansy planted near cabbage does surprisingly well. Cucumber beeteles. https://www.planetnatural.com/pest-problem-solver/garden-pests/cabbageworm-control/
Also cucumber beetles |
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Tatsoi
| 9 | 7" | 7" x 7" | |
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Thyme
| 9 | 11" | 11" x 1' 3" | Gets rid of flea beetles, bok choy needs it |
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Tomato (Small)
| 6 | 1' 7" | 1' 5" x 1' 11" | Hornworms are the caterpillars of the sphinx moth, which feed only on plants in the solanaceous family. Tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum ) are their most frequent targets, but they also damage eggplant (Solanum melongena) and potatoes (Solanum tuberosum). IT'S A TRAP
http://homeguides.sfgate.com/companion-plants-discourage-tomato-worms-77355.html |
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Watermelon
| 3 | 2' 11" | 2' 11" x 2' 11" | Lacewings and parasitic wasps attack aphids and whiteflies, while lacewing larvae and western predatory mites attack spider mites. For further control, gardeners may saturate plants with low-toxicity insecticidal soap or oils to kill pests on contact.
http://homeguides.sfgate.com/watermelon-insect-control-45250.html |
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