What crops can and cannot be planted next to tomatoes

The plot is large; each culture can be allocated a separate spacious bed. The harvest was not bad, you were happy until you came to the dacha to see your friends. On a tiny patch, cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini, onions, peppers grow interspersed, and the harvest is such that the owners even sell the surplus. You decide to plant in the same way. Stop and think! If you randomly bury everything in the garden, nothing good will come of it. Find the best way to combine plants.

Benefits of a tight fit

Even if you do not need to save space, joint plantings are desirable on the site. If you choose the right crops, symbiosis will arise when plants of different species help each other. Please note that some species cannot coexist, even if they have different diseases and pests. If planted without considering compatibility, crops will oppress each other and there will be no good harvest.

When growing vegetables in a greenhouse, you need to take into account their requirements for temperature and humidity. Cucumbers and tomatoes could get along with each other, but they have different requirements for temperature and humidity conditions. If there is only one insulated room, you can divide the cultures with film or non-woven material. With good protection from pests and infections, it is better to grow peppers in this greenhouse, it loves the same conditions as tomatoes. Plant an unpretentious onion next to the bushes, it does not need to create special conditions. If you want, you can plant early collard greens, it will ripen quickly and won't interfere with other crops.

There are plant species that have a positive effect on their neighbors. Often such herbs have a good effect on human health, they are used in traditional medicine. Everyone knows the healing properties of valerian, yarrow, chamomile - they will also support tomato seedlings. Just do not let the earth overgrow with weeds, leave a few bushes around the edges, this will be enough.

Advice

If you plant several crops in the same garden, for example tomatoes or onions along with strawberries or cabbage, the area to be cultivated will be half the size, which means that maintenance will become easier.

You can sow green manures near tomatoes, they enrich the soil, improve its structure. Mustard or phacelia will protect young seedlings from strong wind or scorching sun. Just make sure that the helper plants do not grow too tall and drown out the main crop. The roots of lettuce and spinach add nutrients to the soil. The smell of marigolds will scare away pests - make a decorative border of these flowers around the garden. Plant tomatoes next to strawberries in the greenhouse for early berries in spring and juicy tomatoes in summer. You can plant peppers in the same place, but make sure that the infection does not spread.

What and with what can be planted on the same bed

Everyone has heard about compacted planting, about growing 3 crops per season on one bed. Let's figure out what and with what can be planted. Some crops do not like unpleasant neighborhoods, but if you remove them before planting tomatoes, you can use this method. For example, if you want to dig up the dill before setting the tomato fruit, you can plant a spicy crop between the planned rows of tomatoes. First, try to condense the usual plants: tomatoes, onions, cucumbers.

Please note right away that tomatoes are not liked if the following crops grow nearby:

• broccoli or cauliflower;
• pepper, eggplant (they have the same pests);
• fennel;
• dill (if you do not plan to remove it for early greens);
• corn and other tall crops on the south side, where they will shade the garden bed.

What to plant near tomatoes? If you are good at pest control, such as the cotton budworm, you can sow corn from the north side of the tomato garden. You can arrange a tomato plantation next to potatoes, if you are sure that you will be able to protect the plantings from late blight and Colorado potato beetle... Some crops are even recommended to be planted with tomatoes. Asparagus emits volatile substances that act badly on nematodes - the enemies of tomatoes. Onions release phytoncides from various infections, it is useful in any area: both where cucumbers grow, and on berry plantations.

You can sow basil on a tomato bed. It helps the main crop protect itself from pests. Try a tomato grown next to this spicy herb. Both the size and taste of the fruit will be significantly better than that of greenhouse vegetables.

Advice

If you plant onions and garlic between rows, late blight and spider mites will not attack your plants.

Also, tomatoes will get along well with the following plants:

• beans;
• celery;
• strawberries;
• cabbage;
• radish;
• sorrel;
• parsley;
• carrots.

Plant tomato bushes near the bird cherry and the tomatoes will be protected from the scoop. If the area is dominated by thickets of nettle, the vegetable crop will grow well in such a neighborhood. You can plant seedlings among spicy or floral crops: calendula, mint, sage. Peppers can also be grown among these herbs, such an environment will benefit him.

What plants will tomatoes help

Tomatoes contain saponin, which works well for nearby crops. A tomato bush planted next to a gooseberry or currant will drive away the moth and sawfly from berry crops. You can plant tomatoes along with cabbage, and cabbage butterflies will fly around the side of the garden. Remember that this neighborhood is only good for head species, broccoli and cauliflower should grow elsewhere.

There is information that ants do not like the smell of tomatoes. The responses to this information are contradictory: some gardeners expelled insects from the site with the help of tomato tops, others had an anthill located right on a tomato garden. Check if you are lucky, and bushes growing with strawberries will protect the berry from underground pests.

Advice

When planning combined plantings, remember that umbrella crops - dill, fennel - are individualists, they cannot be used to compact plantings. The exception is carrots, they have no harmful effect on tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables.

How to arrange plants in the garden

Let tomatoes be the main crop in the garden, and use early-ripening vegetables for compaction. How to get the maximum yield? In the fall, plant winter garlic with 15 cm row spacing. As soon as the soil thaws, put a bow on a feather, and next to it radish... In mid-May, the greens are removed, and tomato seedlings are placed in the vacant space.

In the spring, you can plant a bed of early cabbage. Make the distance to honey in rows about one and a half meters. When warm days come, place tomato seedlings between plantings. Plant an onion or garlic between the tomatoes, these plants release phytoncides and protect plantings from phytophthora. Borago growing nearby activates the development of tomatoes, improves the taste of fruits, and at the same time drives away tomato worms.

In the greenhouse in early spring, thickly sow radishes, salads, onions on a feather. When it's time to plant your seedlings, make room for the holes and eat the vegetables. For about a month more, you can harvest between the rows, and when the tomatoes grow, other crops will be harvested and will not interfere with their development. Peppers can also be grown this way.

Your experience and intuition

On the forums of gardeners, you can often find the most contradictory statements. The first vegetable grower has been growing cucumbers with tomatoes in the same greenhouse for many years and is very pleased with the results; in the second, with such a combination, neither one nor the other crop wants to bear fruit. It is impossible to plant nightshade crops nearby, but some summer residents grow tomatoes and eggplants with potatoes - and have no idea about late blight or Colorado potato beetle.

In any sources, you will find only general recommendations, but each site has its own microclimate, excess or lack of any components in the soil. Only your personal experience will help to choose the right growing method. Learn to understand your green pets, observe in what conditions they develop well, and when they wither. If cucumbers and tomatoes grow well in the same greenhouse, you can plant them there all the time.

Advice

If you decide to grow several crops in one garden bed, do not sow the entire area at once. Plant several rows in the first year and see how the plants get along with each other. If you like the result, grow it the next season.

Breeders have developed many varieties and hybrids of various plants. Perhaps not every variety will appeal to the mainstream culture. If low tomatoes get along well next to strawberries, you remove both berries and tomatoes from one garden bed, then tall bushes can shade the berry - the yield will decrease. Much depends on the size and height of plants, the timing of ripening. Even different varieties of the same species sometimes cannot be placed close to each other. When sweet and bitter peppers grow close, the taste of the fruit deteriorates. Some gardeners grow zucchini, pumpkin on a tomato bed and harvest a good harvest, although such a neighborhood is not recommended. It is impossible to take into account every little thing, try and observe.

Output

If you arrange the plantings correctly, tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables will grow well in the same garden with other crops, get sick less and give good yields. A bed with strawberries bears fruit in early summer, then the berry only lays and develops buds for flowering the next year. Tomatoes growing between bushes will help you save space and get both vegetables and berries in a small area.

When landing, you need to consider plant compatibility... Some crops can oppress others, they cannot be grown together. Cucumbers and tomatoes do not interfere with each other, only they have different microclimate requirements. Tomatoes would get along with eggplants and potatoes, if not for diseases and pests that are the same for all nightshades. Pepper can also be a source of infection. Can be planted around the perimeter marigold or other plants that ward off pests and infection, then the plantings will be protected.

Each gardener has his own secrets of growing vegetables. Feel free to experiment, find the best combinations for your conditions. What if you manage to grow cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, peppers and zucchini together in the garden. Such a plantation will not only provide the family with vegetables, but it will also look attractive, especially if you plant it around the edges with strawberries or ornamental cabbage... Try it, gain experience and share your discoveries with neighbors and friends.