Role: Food, Companion
Helps: Tomatoes, alliums, beans, leeks, lettuce, onions
Helped by: Lettuce, alliums (chives, leeks, onions, shallots, etc.), rosemary, wormwood, sage, beans, flax
Attracts: assassin bug,lacewing, parasitic wasp, yellow jacket and other predatory wasps
Repels: leek moth, onion fly
Avoid: Dill, parsnip, radish
Details: Beans provide the nitrogen carrots need more than some other vegetables. Aromatic companion plants repel carrot fly. Alliums inter-planted with carrots confuse onion and carrot flies. Flax produces an oil that may protect root vegetables like carrots from some pests.
Sage, rosemary, and radishes are recommended by some as companion plants, but listed by others as incompatible. For the beneficial insect-attracting properties of carrots to work, they need to be allowed to flower; otherwise, use the wild carrot, Queen Anne's Lace, for the same effect. Tomatoes grow better with carrots, but may stunt the carrots' growth.
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