herbal and veggie garden

How to choose correct plants for your herbal/veggie garden?

On a garden bed we should combine herbs and vegetable together. It is even natural for the nature. We can create interesting colourful combination and pattern. But I am not sure if you know that every plant has its friends and enemies and it could affects its growth. In this article I'd like to show you some examples of veggie/herbal beds.

Aromatic plants may attract insect to pollinate, repelled pests and enhance vegetable taste so it is good to include them into the veggie bed.

The most common combination is carrot, onion and dill. You can also plant this vegetable with leek or green pea. But do not plant leek and green pea together. They are not good friends :)

Also you can chose just two kinds of vegetable, for example carrot and onion. In this case you should create bed wide 120 cm and sow 3 rows of carrots and 3 rows of onion. 

Nowadays is really popular beetroot. It is one of the most common species cultivated beets. This vegetable we can use in various salads. On the garden bed you can plant almost with everything. The best combination is for example with: spinach, parsley, carrot, mangold, nasturtium, beans or peas. Just potatoes or leek are not good neighbours. Also spinach you can plant with every kind of vegetable or herbs. This vegetable supports growth its neighbour. It is really good friend with potatoes, celery, beans, radish, beets or strawberry. 

Tomatoes are good friends with herbs. The unusual combination is with mint or pot marigold. On the picture you can see a sample with parsley and celery. But certainly it spoils nothing with other kinds of herbs even with garlic. Just never plant tomatoes with potatoes. It could be a disaster on your garden. They are from the same botany family and when potatoes are attacked with mold it spreads quickly on tomatoes as well. 

Green peas we can combine for example with broccoli, dill, onion, radish, beetroot, carrot and salad. Interesting combination could be with orange or yellow flowering pot marigold. Pea is not good friend with potatoes, garlic, beans, leek and tomatoes. 

There are a lot of possibilities how to combine veggie and herbs and I wish you 

HAPPY GARDENING :)