Companion planting?

[Carmi]

Hi, I will be building raised beds, hopefully next year, and want to know more about companion planting and plant rotation. Can anyone recommend a good book or site regarding this? I have a large-ish yard with lots of sun and live in zone 5 (Montreal). Thanks. Carmi

[gardengirl72]

My favorite and super simple method of companion planting is the Native American "Three Sisters".

Beans, corn and squash or cucumber.

There is a great companion chart in the books Hobby Farm and Square Foot Gardening.

Check out my library page for them.

[Sinfonian]

Sorry, every time I saw this post I was on my phone. My PC has the links I use. Here they are...

http://www.countrybrookfarms.com/Vegetable_Garden.html
Have to scroll down on that one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companion_plants
This one's pretty good too.

That's where I go to get my companion planting guildes. Of course, like everything, I've read that companion planting is garbage. I've also read it works like a charm. Doesn't hurt to follow it in my book.

Oh, and boy do I wish I knew that the Three Sisters could include cukes. I could have saved tons of space. I'm not a squash fan, but corn, beans and cukes all had places in this year's garden! If I do corn again, you can bet I'll do your version of the three sisters!

Enjoy!

[gardengirl72]

Thanks Rich, good stuff there!

[Garden Green]

I'm partial to:

http://www.ghorganics.com/page2.html

and

http://www.gardenguides.com/how-to/tipstechniques/vegetables/vcomp.asp

The second one has a section just on companion planting herbs, too.

[greenmagick]

I love the book Great Garden Companions: A companion planting system for a beautiful, chemical free vegetable garden (http://www.amazon.com/Great-Garden-Companions-Companion-Planting-Chemical-Free/dp/0875968473/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228145862&sr=8-1) by Sally Jean Cunningham.

It has a ton of companion info as well as a rotation schedule. She groups it all together very nicely!

[gardengirl72]

Check my Library page for lots of cool books I read as well.

[battythe bantam]

Hi, I will be building raised beds, hopefully next year, and want to know more about companion planting and plant rotation. Can anyone recommend a good book or site regarding this? I have a large-ish yard with lots of sun and live in zone 5 (Montreal). Thanks. Carmi
Hi Carmi, my name is Robert and if you would like information about companion planting and crop rotation, I have a couple of e-books that I can forward to you. shoot me an e-mail @ r_esparza51@yahoo.com and i"ll send them to you .

[gardengirl72]

Rob I would love to check out the ebooks myself.

[plantoneonme]

Since you have a large-ish yard, I would recommend planting a few areas with perinneals that the bees and butterflies would like. You can never get too many to visit your yard. I was pleasantly surprised at how many bees that visited my tiny yard and plan on planting a couple nice areas with bee loving plants to encourage more. Kim

[Garden Addict]

I never knew i could add other plants with my vegetables...very interesting. I'll be doing my homework for this coming year. Thank You.