Companion Planting

1
Companion Planting

• From Tarrant County Extension
• Master Gardeners
• By Derald Freeman

2
What are Master Gardeners?
MG?
3
Community Contributions

• MGs answered about 5000 phone calls
• Provided over 20,000 hours of volunteer time in
  25 projects
• The Speakers Bureau reached 6278 people in 124
  speaking engagements

T
4
Master Gardeners are
People who cant wait to get outdoors.
People who wear out their shoes gardening.
People who love to prune, landscape, mow, and sow.
People who love a challenge.
TC
5
Master Gardeners

• The Texas Master Gardener program began in 1978
  as Extension horticulture training at AM
  University.
• There are 54 county Master Gardener programs in
  Texas with over 4,000 certified Master Gardeners
  statewide.

6
Lots to learn

• Forget about
• Your pet
• Your computer
• Your car

C
7
Companion Planting
Introduction
8
What is Companion Planting?

• Husband and wife planting flowers

Vegetable Gardening
Landscape Design
Insect Control (IPM)
Planting Flowers and Roses
TC
9
What is Companion Planting?

• Finding plants that work together
• What vegetables work together
• Using nature to control insects
• How to attract beneficial insects

T
10
What is Companion Planting?

• Selecting disease resistant plants
• How to coordinate trees, shrubs
• Color and texture
• Size and design factors

T
11
Gardening with vegetables
Vegetables
12
Garden companion list
13
Beneficial things to plant

• Garlic improves the growth and health of roses.
  Deters Japanese beetles.
• Mint repels white cabbage moths, ants, rodents,
  flea beetles, fleas, aphids and improves health
  of cabbage of tomatoes.
• Petunias repel asparagus beetle, aphids,
  leafhoppers. Can be planted everywhere.

14
Tomatoes

• Parsley, Asparagus, Chives, Onions

Repels Army worm, Spider mites, Stink bugs,
Aphids, Leaf Hoppers, Cutworms
15
Lettuce

• Carrots, beans, cucumbers,
• basil

Basil repels flies and mosquitoes
16
Cabbages

• Cucumbers

Cucumber vines are protected from heat
17
Radishes

• Cucumbers

Benefit each other. When radishes are harvested
cucumbers have room to grow.
18
Onions

• Beets

Beets improve the production of onions
19
Carrots

• Radishes
• Onions
• Chives

Radishes loosen soil for carrots Chives enhance
flavor of carrots
20
Rosemary, Parsley

• Cabbage
• Beans
• Carrots
• Sage

Repels moths, flies, beetles Attract beneficial
insects
21
Companion Planting Don'ts

• Cucumbers with herbs
• Cabbage with beans
• Onions with peas beans
• Sunflowers best planted alone
• Carrots near dill
• Strawberries where tom,pot,pep,egg have grown in
  past four years

22
Companion planting with insects
Good Bugs?
23
Insect damage in the garden

• When insects hit, the dinner table shrinks

24
Insects Are all bad?

• Good bugs Bad Bugs

25
Lady bugs

• Feeds on aphids, thrips, chinch bugs, mealybugs,
  and mites

26
Lacewing

• Feeds on small caterpillars, aphids, chinch bugs,
  scale, whitefly, mealybugs

27
More Beneficial Insects
Assassin Bug?Soldier Bug?

• Assassin bugs, Cicada killers, Minute Pirate bug,
  Spined soldier bug
• feed on aphids, thrips, caterpillars

28
More Beneficial Insects

• Domestic Honey Bee Wasp, Hornets
• feed on caterpillars and grubs

29
Spiders, Tarantulas

• Wolf Spider Scorpion Tarantula

30
Other Arthropods - harmful

• Female Black Widow Brown Recluse
• Male Black Widow

31
Landscape Companions
Landscape

• Design

32
Landscape Design
33
Planting for Texture

• Southern Wax Myrtle, 20
• Dwarf Yaupon Holly, 1-2
• Crape Myrtles, 18-20, bloom in spring

C
34
Planting for Texture

• Weeping Yaupon, 8, fall berries, evg.
• Indian Hawthorn, 8, evergreen
• Southern Wax Myrtle, 20, evg.

C
35
Seasonal Blooming (full sun)

• Iris, 18, spring blooming
• Asters, 2-3, fall blooming, perennial
• Black-eyed Susan, 2-3 summer-fall blooming,
  annual

C
36
Seasonal Blooming (sun)

• Purple Loosestrife, 2-3 spring-fall
• Shasta Daisy, 1-3, June-July, perennial

C
37
Seasonal Blooming (sun)

• Salvia Greggii, 2-3 perennial,
  spring-fall
• Purple Coneflower, 1-3,, perennial, spring-fall

C
38
Planting for Color Balance

• Indian Hawthorn, 6 spring blooming, evergreen
• Chinese Fringe flower, 2, evergreen
• (Part sun shade)

C
39
Other Planting Options

• Beautyberry

Butterfly weed
Daylily
C
40
Other Planting Options

• Lantana

Rock Rose
Vinca
C
41
Color balance

• Roses and Dusty Miller

Dusty Miller and Artemesia are similar. Low
moisture, well drained, 2 mound, evergreen
42
Color balance

• Yellow Lady Banksia roses and violet shutters

43
Color balance

• Roses with four progressive colors of the color
  wheel

44
The End (finis)