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Carrots love onions. Cabbage loves sage. Corn loves melons and dill. Did you know you can make your garden grow bigger and better if you plant best plant friends beside each other? They share nutrients well. They fight off each other’s pests.

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Lettuce goes with Radishes: Don’t want flea beetles munching your lettuce? Plant radishes nearby. The bugs will flit to those instead. This is called “trap cropping.”

BFFs in the Garden

Peas go with Mint: Mint will make your pea plants healthier . . . and your peas tastier! 

Pumpkins go with Nasturtiums: Spicy nasturtium flowers scare off pumpkin-loving squash bugs.

Spinach goes with Beans: Tall bean plants create shade for delicate spinach, which needs protection from hot sunshine.

Tomatoes go with Basil: Insects such as mosquitos and aphids steer clear of basil. With basil’s help, you can eat your tomatoes instead of letting them go to the bugs.

Zucchini goes with Zinnias: Remember, keep your “z’s” together. Zinnias attract pollinators to help zucchini bear fruit. 

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. — Genesis 2:15

Cucumbers go with Marigolds: Marigolds repel cucumber-eating bugs such as aphids and beetles.