Question: I’m trying to figure out how to plant my garden and keep in mind companion planting. What herbs should not be planted together? -Reid G.
Answer: It’s common for gardeners to grow herb plants in close quarters, tucked together into a large container or window bow, but not all herbs make good bedfellows. Watch out for these pairings to avoid.
- Keep fennel and wormwood isolated from other plants. Fennel will prevent nearby plants from growing well, or it might impact their flavor, making them not as tasty as they were before. Wormwood can also be damaging to other herbs and plants in your garden. If you grow fennel or wormwood, keep them in isolation, planted well away from the others in your garden.
- Rue should be kept away from sage, basil, and cabbages. Rue will not harm other plants in the garden, but keep it well away from your cabbages, basil, and sage.
- Anise and dill should not be planted near carrots. Anise and dill will inhibit the growth of your crop of carrots, so keep these plants well away from your carrot crop.
- Keep dill clear of tomatoes. While dill actually helps improve the flavor of lettuce, cabbage, and onion, it can be detrimental to tomatoes, so be careful where you plant it.
- Sage makes a bad bedfellow with cucumber and onion. Sage can have a negative effect on cucumber crops, and it restricts the growth of onions in the garden, so plan where you will plant it carefully.
- Garlic and other alliums are bad neighbors to beans and peas. The growth of your legumes will be inhibited if they’re planted next to an allium like garlic, shallot, or onion.
How would green onion, chives, cilantro, and basil grow together?
I can’t get my garlic to grow. It grows 1 inch then wilts and dies. I have planted 4 packages of garlic. Also my thyme and basil and lemon balm keep dying. One inch is the longest they will grow. I check the moisture content with a pencil. I don’t water them until the pencil is barely showing any moisture. I plant them inside in large pots and nourish them once a month with a small amount of SCHULTZ plant food. Please let me know what I’m doing wrong. I have grown chives wonderfully in the past. Different home. Different state. I’m now in Utah. Thanks. Cathy Ryall
Plant your garlic November 1-15 as long as the soil is workable it can go in, mulch. Early spring start watering daily/every other and do your fertilizer routine. I just amend the soil really well, I do not add any extra fertilizer, but I water as early as march as we haven’t been getting great spring rains.
I’m in southwest Idaho and get a great harvest every year in a small 3×5’ raised bed. The relative humidity is probably what you’re struggling with. I relied on rains the first two years and then went to manual watering as early as march and late as October. Also look up “core gardening” as a way to conserve watering.
Totally different site than google said it was , It should read, herbs not to plant next to each other, not, what herbs not to mix with others, as a Herbalist or if other that are a Herbalist you will understand as some mixed can put a person in the hospital or worse so maybe the site owner might wanna let the web page maker know this however google is shady anymore so good luck, Other than that never heard of rue until now so thanks nice site btw