I’ve planted a garden every year for as long as I can
remember, primarily for tomatoes. I love the color, flavor and variety of
heirloom tomatoes. I tuck thick beefsteak slices in my sandwiches and I pop
sweet cherry tomatoes just like candy. I can get them from the grocer, but
compared with home grown tomatoes, store bought tastes like cardboard. This
spring in addition to at least two varieties of tomato, I’m planting carrots.
Carrots, dill, parsley, cilantro and parsnips attract mantises, ladybugs,
spiders and other predators. More predators = fewer bugs eating my tomatoes. I
learned a long time ago some vegetables like growing up side-by-side, and
others don’t. Know what you get when you plant cucumbers and cantaloupe too
close to each other? It isn’t pretty. Cucumbers aren’t good company for
tomatoes, either. Neither are potatoes. But basil, garlic, rosemary and carrots
are a tomato plant’s best friends.
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