For a particularly prolific corn harvest, consider planting a few helpful neighbors, from herbs to vegetables to some sweet ...

making it slightly less practical as a companion plant in a vegetable garden. There are many varieties of thyme to grow in your herb garden, from tiny creeping thymes that can be planted for an ...

As well as repelling pests, rosemary companion planting can help increase yields, improve flavors, and keep plants thriving throughout the season. There are many vegetables, fruits, herbs ...

Basil can help peppers thrive. The two plants have similar heat, sun, and water needs, so they're easy to grow next to each other—plus, basil can help repel unwanted pests like aphids, flies, and ...

Thyme and marigolds are both known for their ability to keep bad insects away from your garden, so if you plant both as a ...

Recently, I was able to hear a presentation at our Master Gardeners group from Tara Johnson. She grows a large garden and ...

Plant corn with companion plants, also known as intercropping to grow a bountiful edible garden. Companion planting can ...

They have similar benefits to peppers. Herbs are so beneficial as companion plants that you pretty much can’t go wrong with any of them. Whether it’s oregano, rosemary, thyme, lavender or sage ...

Companion planting is a gardener’s strategy to grow one plant next to another for support, for protection and to keep the ...

There is a herb you can plant beside roses in your garden to make them smell better, gardeners say. Companion planting is a common method for people to get the most out of what they are growing in ...

When we think about vegetable gardens, we don’t usually think about interplanting flowers and herbs with our vegetables. In ...

As Mark Diacono explains in his new cookbook Herb: A Cook’s Companion, herbs are elevators which “carry other ingredients more deeply into the senses”. This means that even a small handful ...