Plant herbs in Tui Herb Mix a free draining planting mix, rich in nitrogen to promote green, leafy growth and continuous harvesting. Feed your herbs with Tui NovaTec Premium fertiliser. Plant vegetables in Tui Vegetable Mix , a high quality natural-based planting mix containing the right blend of nutrients to provide your veges with the best possible start and sustained growth throughout the season. Fertilise every four weeks during key growth periods with Tui Vegetable Food , a rich formulation of fertilisers including dolomite, blood and bone and powdered sheep manure designed to encourage healthy vegetable growth and improve soil structure.
Use plants to encourage good bugs which in turn eat the bad bugs. Plant a mixture of flowers and herbs amongst vegetables and fruit trees to encourage a healthy diversity of insects to move into the garden. View a companion planting table here. Published by Penguin Books. That's wonderful to hear Gavin. Thanks for your feedback and happy spring gardening!
Thank you for the info on companion planting. Will give it a go in my vege patch. Thanks for this useful and easy to follow companion planting guide. I'm going to try to more of this type of planting this season :. I am a beginner gardener and would like to start a veggie garden would like to know where to start, how to start and when to start.
Hi Raewyn, thanks for getting in touch. It's fantastic to hear you are interested in starting your own vege garden and discovering the joy of 'growing your own'. We can definitely help with that. Spring is the ideal time to start a vege patch as the soil warms and there are loads of vege options to choose from. Soil preparation, planting crops at the right time of year, and growing what you like to eat are key considerations.
Then once your veges are planted, watering and feeding is important. To get you started we have a helpful guide here: Beginner's Guide to Vegetable Gardening which is a great place to start, along with our handy Planting Calendar which tells you when to plant crops in your region of New Zealand. We also have a large range of crop specific guides to help you get growing. Feel free to touch base with any specific garden questions you have.
Planting Guide was very helpful. Will follow the guide carefully. Your guide is full of useful information. Nasturtiums can be used as a trap plant to entice aphids away from beans.
Lovage and rosemary also have excellent insect repellent qualities. Sunflowers can be used to create shade for sun-stressed crops. Pole beans can also provide structural support for tall corn. Foes: Dill can reduce the yield of carrots. Dill , coriander , celery , and other members of the Parsley family should not be planted near carrots they tend to cross pollinate. Note: Tansy is considered invasive in some areas.
See local guidelines before planting. Foes : Do not plant near garlic and onion , as they will stunt the growth of peas. Beans can improve the size of potato tubers. Cilantro is thought to protect against aphids, spider mites and potato beetles. Calendula , tansy , and horseradish planted at the corner of a potato patch wards off Colorado potato beetles. Catmint also repels Colorado potato beetles, but can bring cats into the vegetable garden, so it is a good idea to plant it in pots around the edge of the plot.
Foes: Potatoes tend to be smaller when planted with corn, which is also a heavy feeder. Note : Pumpkins do grow well with other winter squash, as they have the same growing requirements. Figuring out a garden plan that integrates companion planting is traditionally challenging. But the new companion planting feature in our online Almanac Garden Planner lets you select the perfect matches for your plants.
When you select a vegetable crop, you simply click on a heart-shaped Companion Planting button. The selection bar will then show only suitable companion plants. Easy peasy! Learn more in this video and try the Garden Planner out for yourself with our free 7-day trial. We hope you find ways for companion planting to help improve your growing! Correct spacing, sun, water, and good soil management are the most important influences on your growing — think of companion planting as a bonus!
Just getting started with gardening or need a refresher course? Check out our Vegetable Gardening for Beginners how-to page. Need plant-specific growing advice? Read through our many Growing Guides for vegetables, fruit, flowers, and herbs. Hi I am ozzy my companion pairs are tomatoes and cucumber. I was told that planting more that one crops was beneficial but i didn't know how beneficial it was until i read this article, now it makes sense. Skip to main content.
By Catherine Boeckmann. June 3, What do you want to read next? Companion Planting With Herbs. Organic Pesticides: 5 Natural Ways Vegetable Gardening for Beginners. Crop Rotation Tips for Pests such as root maggots, Japanese beetles, snails, and coddling moths that affect beets are repelled by the smell of garlic. Planting garlic near beets also improves the flavor of the beets, and the sulfur that garlic produces as it grows acts as an antifungal that helps prevent disease in the beets.
Beets grow best in deep, well-drained soil. Clay soils will be too heavy for beets to grow properly. Beets like cool weather, but make sure not to plant them until the soil temperature is at least 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Plant the seeds one to two inches apart in rows, and make sure to give the beets around one inch of water a week. You should plant garlic in fertile, well-drained soil, spacing the cloves four to six inches apart. Position cloves with the pointy end pointing up, and push each clove one to two inches down into the ground.
Make sure to water the garlic plants every three to five days when they begin to form bulbs. By planting broccoli and onions in close proximity to each other in the garden, you can improve the flavor of your broccoli. Broccoli is one of the most nutritious of all the vegetables out there, and it grows best in cooler seasons. It will fully mature within six to eight weeks.
The plant does best in full sun but will also grow well in partial shade. Broccoli needs moist, fertile, slightly acidic soil. Plant seeds half an inch deep, or put transplants slightly deeper in the soil than they were before.
Space plants 12 to 24 inches apart with 36 inches between rows. Water regularly, and try not to get the growing heads wet. Onions are a bulbous, cool weather plant. You can either purchase onion bulbs that are ready to plant directly into the ground at nurseries or online. If you choose to grow onions from seeds, it will take up to four months for the plant to mature.
The onion tops will grow in cool weather and form bulbs when the weather gets warm. Water about one inch per week, and make sure to keep the onions well-weeded, as the plants cannot easily compete with weeds. Carrots are normally attacked by carrot flies, and leeks are affected by leek moths and onion flies.
To grow carrots, plant the seeds outside about three to five weeks before the last frost. Plant the seeds three or four inches apart in rows that are at least 12 inches apart. Try to grow them in full sunlight. The soil should be well drained and loose, and you should water the plants at least one inch per week,. The leek is a cousin of the onion that thrives in cool weather. Plant leeks in an area of the garden that gets full sun and that has fertile, well-drained soil.
They need extremely fertile soil and lots of moisture in order to grow best. In order to get the kind of rich, white stem that is best for eating, the stem must be hidden from the sun in a process known as blanching. Growing corn, beans, and squash together is a method known as the three sisters , which was cultivated by indigenous Americans. The stalks of the corn support the beans, while the bean plant draws nitrogen from the soil, which helps the plants around it grow bigger and fuller.
The squash has large leaves that grow close to the ground, acting as a weed deterrent for the corn and beans. To plant sweet corn, make sure the soil is at least 65 degrees Fahrenheit before planting the seeds half an inch to one and a half inches deep.
Plant the seeds 12 inches apart in rows, and make sure the rows are 30 to 36 inches apart. Plant your corn in an area that gets full sunshine and has well-drained soil. Water the corn deeply about once a week. You can plant any variety of pole beans any time after the danger of frost has passed. They should be started from seeds, as attempting to transplant pole beans may actually kill the young plants. Sow the seeds about three inches apart. Normally pole beans require support, such as a trellis, but in this case, the beans will use the corn stalks to climb up.
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