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Morning all.

Reading this months GYO mag there is a piece on crops and their companion plants. Under Asparagus,Beans, and Peas they say its antagonist crop is the onion and its relatives. So have a guess at what I've done, I've planted my onions and garlic with the broad beans running along the back. My question is what do i do now.
Leave and see what happens?
Dig them up (the beans)?
Or give up and join the gym?

I would leave them. And do join the gym anyway ;D

I have done the same with no problem.
The only thing I would really avoid is bronze fennel - I grew this one year, and am sure it affected crops in the vicinity, but for the life of me can't remember what. But it was noticeably patchy at the end of the season, and someone told me that might be the reason.

Oh thats good then :), it was a case of, buy, plant, read about it, then regret it.
i thought, oh thats typical the only things i,ve planted and i got it wrong. but hay i,ll learn.

This is a useful website on companion planting:

http://www.mylot.org/Garden/gardening04.htm

Wardy - please post that about fennel if you find it - would be interested.
This is a subject that I have no books on!

I have done that too last year and the year before. I suppose if they were a row of each then that might be counter productive but I do blocks and have had no bother.

according to my chart fennel doesn’t go well with tomato,
turnip, tarragon, lettuce, lemon balm, kohl rabi, coriander,
cabbage and broad beans  :)

Maybe thats what went wrong - I had fennel next to toms and had no success atall!

Thanks for info on that Wardy.  :)

I've found a paper about companion planting at www.attra.ncat.org which is the national sustainable agriculture information centre in the states.  It runs to 16 pages, of which the list is only a small part.  It goes into some of the science which I quite like and some of the history of how native American Indians coped.  I have to say there aren't too many of those chaps in this part of Cheshire however!  Lance

I found this useful

http://www.nativetech.org/cornhusk/threesisters.html


I also have a book on companion planting, I'll post the details when I locate the book

CC

I did exactly the same thing this year, planted onions and beans together...and then read that I should'nt have done! So, I put up a barrier between them. some of boxed perspex ( I think that's what it is called)...the stuff that some conservatory roofs  are made from (found a load that had been dumped) and the beans and onions were very good. Not sure if it was because of the perspex or not ???

I believe the material you are referring to is known as polycarbonate sheeting agapanthus ...

Either way it looks like it may have helped ! !!

Derekthefox :D

Could you squeeze in a row of marigolds?  Beans like them! ;)

Quote from: flowerlady on November 13, 2005, 23:59:45
Could you squeeze in a row of marigolds?  Beans like them! ;)

good idea thanks (make it look a little prettier too) think ive left enough room.
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ooopps what happend there  :-[ ???

I like the look of calendula in amongst the cabbages, specially red ones

I grew flowers with my corn, french and runner beans.  Grew Love in a Mist with my carrots, onions and beetroots  :)

Sunflowers with my runners, squashes and lettuce

I love the photos Wardy, No boring rows of veggies on your lottie then :).
I like the idea of growing flowers between my veg will look into that more me thinks