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Keep your asparagus beds productive and pest-free all season long with these easy-care asparagus companion plants. Marty Baldwin Asparagus plants can grow quite large, and their harvest season is relatively short. That can make garden bedsplanted with only asparagussomewhat limited in productivity. Credit:Marty Baldwin The best companion plants can also keep pests away and encourage a more prolificharvest of asparagus spears. Some of these asparagus companion plants excel at pest prevention, while others can keep down weeds....

Grow these basil companion plants near each other to reduce pests, provide shade, and boost your harvests. Here are a few companion plants that benefit from basils pest-repelling properties while helping basil grow even better. Some studies have found thatthrip populations are reducedby companion planting basil with marigolds. Credit:Kindra Clineff This plant combination is especially beneficial for tomatoes. However, sun-sensitive basil benefits from the extra shade of asparagus leaves. Interplanting these two companions keeps vegetable beds productive long after the asparagus season ends....

Kindra Clineff Beets are delicious vegetables, and theyre easy to grow in home gardens. Use this guide to choose the best beet companion plants and how to grow them. Bush beans are also smaller plants and are less likely to block the sun from reaching lower-growing beets. Credit:Kindra Clineff Once grown primarily for its medicinal properties, hyssop is mostly kept as an ornamental today. It’s atop choice for pollinator gardensbecause insects can’t resist its fragrant, purple flowers....

Companion planting broccoli can boost your harvest and keep pests away. Over time, as the legumes roots decay, they release much-needed nitrogen into the soil. Alliums can even help keep deer out of your garden when planted around the edges of your beds. Credit: Ed Gohlich Sincebeetshappen to have low calcium needs, they wont compete with your broccoli for nutrients. Celery Cabbage worms can spell disaster for many brassica plants, including broccoli....

These Brussels sprouts companion plants will help keep pests away naturally and help boost your harvests. Those sulfur compounds also repel pests like aphids, slugs, and cabbage loopers from neighboring Brussels sprouts. Beets Beetsand otherroot vegetablesgrow underground. Credit:mm7 / Adobe Stock Marigolds Peter Krumhardt Marigoldsare famous for their pest-repelling properties. They can deter deer, rabbits, and an assortment of destructive insects. Dwarf marigold varieties are available for grow in small spaces and container gardens....

Protect your harvest from cabbage loopers and other pests with these beneficial cabbage companion plants. Some will even enhance the flavor of your cabbages, improve soil health, and attract beneficial insects. When grown near cabbage, marigolds repel cabbage loopers, and they keepaphids and thripsat bay. Credit:Kindra Clineff Rosemary Rosemaryis an exceptional cabbage companion plant that is bothlow-maintenanceand drought-tolerant. You may prefer to grow it in pots near your vegetable garden....

Place these carrot companion plants near each other to help control pests and grow healthier roots. Purple, white, yellow, or orange,sugary sweet carrotsare always a garden treat. Theyre also one of the best crops to use as companion plants. Credit: Andy Lyons Try pairing these carrot companion plants to fit more crops in your garden and naturally repel a few pests. Thats not the only reason these plants make excellent companions, though....

Companion planting cauliflower with these veggies, herbs, and flowers helps keep pests away naturally. Dean Schoeppner Cauliflower is one of the most nutritious and flavorful vegetables to grow in home gardens. And sometimes cauliflower helps these plants, too, making it a win-win solution. Credit:Dean Schoeppner These plants contain sulfur compounds that mask the scent of nearby cauliflower and other crops that pests love. The scent of alliums also repels deer,aphids, andcabbage loopers....

Say goodbye to pests and grow a healthier garden with these celery companion plants. Dean Schoeppner Celery is a cold-hardy vegetable that grows beautifully alongside many other plants. However, it requires more water than other garden crops and is prone to pests likeslugs and snails. Credit:Dean Schoeppner Growing alliums as a celery companion plant can keep many pests away, includingaphids, slugs, and snails. One easy solution is togrow nitrogen-fixing beansnear the celery plants....