Someone planting tomatoes in a raised garden bed. - Cavan-Images/Shutterstock When deciding which companion plants to put next to your tomatoes, the options can seem ...

If you’re getting ready to grow vegetables this year—or if you just want the most robust flowers you can get—you may want to give companion planting a try. Companion planting takes advantage of the ...

Companion planting may be new to you, but humans have been doing it for centuries. I learned in high school the Iroquois and the Cherokee taught the settlers how to companion plant using the three ...

Companion planting is the practice of enhancing your crop production by growing combinations of different plants close together. Some combinations can significantly benefit plants and enrich the soil, ...

Some folks remember that jingle from a fad that started in 1970s, chia pets. Chia pets are clay figures of cows, dogs, etc., covered with moistened chia seeds that resemble hair or fur when they ...

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DEPENDING ON WHO you ask, companion planting is either a brilliant garden strategy or yet another case of horticulture hooey. History tells us that Native Americans combined plantings of beans, squash ...

When deciding which companion plants to put next to your tomatoes, the options can seem overwhelming — French marigolds help keep nematodes at bay, while trap crops such as nasturtium draw damaging ...