Companion Plants

Do plant together

  • Tomatoes with Basil helps keep flies and mosquitos away and improves tomato flavor.
  • Tomatoes with dill and borage help repel tomato hornworms.
  • Tomatoes with pot marigolds repel nematodes in the soil.  Studies show to plant pot marigolds and then turn over in the soil then plant the tomatoes.
  • Tomatoes like carrots.
  • Thyme with eggplant, cabbage, potatoes, and tomatoes to repel pests and improve flavor.
  • Squash with tansy helps repel squash bugs.
  • Corn with beans is scientific proven to help corn production.  Soybeans help encourage parasitic wasps which will kill corn earworms.
  • Beets with onions

Don’t plant together

  • Tomatoes don’t like the brassica family because they repel each other
  • Tomatoes don’t like fennel or potatoes