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.
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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.
Chamomile flowers willattract pollinatorsand beneficial insects like predatory wasps to your garden.
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Lured in by your dill plants, predatory wasps can hunt cabbage loopers and help protect your broccoli plants.
Lettuce
Another cool-weather vegetable, lettuce will often bolt when temperatures start to rise.
Lettuce and broccolihave similar watering needs, so growing these two plants together makes sense.
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However, if you provide plenty of fertilizer, these plants will grow well together.
Rhubarb
Rhubarb is a large plant, so its rarely used as a companion in vegetable gardens.
Rhubarb and broccoli have similar growing needs, and rhubarb appears torepel whiteflies, which can damage broccoli leaves.
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Rosemary
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Another top broccoli companion plant isrosemary.
This herb’s strong aroma can keep a number of pests away.
When planted near your broccoli, rosemary helps repel cabbage moths and some beetles.
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You may want tokeep your rosemary in potsthough, because it prefers drier soil than broccoli.
Companion Planting & Botanical Pesticides: Concepts & Resources.
The National Center for Appropriate Technologys ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture program.
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Practice the good neighbor policy in the garden: Try companion planting.
Oregon State University Extension Service.
West Virginia University Extension.
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“Planting Deer Resistant Bulbs.”
Clemson Cooperative Extension Home & Garden Information Center.
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