Kids Gardening Workshop

Things to consider for the plants you choose:

 

• Space requirements of individual plants.

• Mounding requirements individual plants.

• Climbing requirements of individual plants.

• Spreading requirements of individual plants.

• Air & light sufficient for healthy plants.

• Avoid monoculture beds.

• Allow for access to interior plants without disturbing exterior plants.

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Design for plants that do and don’t do well together/companion plants.

 

• Asparagus & tomato, basil, parsley

• Beans, bush: Irish potato, corn, cucumber, strawberry celery, summer savory, but NOT onion

• Beans, pole: corn, summer savory, radish, but NOT onion, beets, kohlrabi, sunflower

• Cabbage family: aromatic herbs, beets, celery, onion family, chamomile, spinach, chard, but NOT dill, strawberries, pole beans, tomato

• Carrots: english pea, lettuce, rosemary, onion family, sage, tomato, but NOT dill

• Celery: onion and cabbage families, tomato, bush beans, nasturtium

• Corn: Irish potato, beans, english pea, pumpkin, cucumber squash but NOT tomato

• Cucumber: beans, corn, english pea, sunflowers, radish but NOT Irish potato, aromatic herbs

• Eggplant: beans, marigolds

• Lettuce: carrot, radish, strawberry, cucumber

• Onion family: beets, carrot, lettuce, cabbage family, summer savory but NOT beans, english peas

• Parsley: tomato, asparagus

• Pea, English: carrots, radish, turnip, cucumber, corn, beans, but NOT onion family, gladiolus, Irish potato

• Potato, Irish: beans, corn, cabbage family, marigolds, horseradish but NOT pumpkin, squash, tomato, cucumber, sunflower

• Pumpkins: corn marigold, but NOT Irish potato

• Radish: english pea, nasturtium lettuce, cucumber but NOT hyssop

• Spinach, strawberry, fava bean

• Squash: nasturtium, corn, marigold but NOT irish potato

• Tomato: onion family, nasturtium, marigold, asparagus, carrot, parsley, cucumber but NOT irish potato, fennel, cabbage family

• Turnip: english pea but NOT Irish potato