Companion Planting

Companion planting is the is the idea that two varieties of plants can do better when planted together rather than each of the plants being planted alone. One plant may repel a particular pest that bothers another plant or one plant may add something to the soil that another plant needs.

Some people will plant flowers next to their vegetable plants to lure pollinators who can visit the vegetable plants while they are there for the flowers.

Last year, I tried planting sunflowers at least a dozen times, but the groundhog would get at them every time they got to be more than a few inches tall. This year, the combination of a better fence and a cat in the yard has kept the groundhog and rabbits at bay and the sun flowers are doing very well.





I also planted some poppies although were a little too early and only a few have made it.





Here is a picture of the cat on the roof of the garden shed which is right next to the garden. No one is really sure how he manages to get up there, but no one really cares either as he works much better than the plastic owl I put up there last year.