How to Plan Companion Planting Around Evidence, Not Folklore
Companion planting works when you pick the mechanism first — host-finding disruption, trap crops, beneficial habitat, legume nitrogen, or shade — instead of copying a chart.
Compatibility charts and beneficial plant combinations for pest control and growth.
Companion planting works when you pick the mechanism first — host-finding disruption, trap crops, beneficial habitat, legume nitrogen, or shade — instead of copying a chart.
Flea beetles ignore repelling companions. Trap crops work because they concentrate the pest where you can remove it, plus the timing and the swap-out.