Planning the garden for my new home – I really want to make the best use of the space and also use companion planting / polyculture methods for pest management/attracting pollinators.
The ladder things in the photo are trellises for the squashes. I'm planning on using the shade from the pumpkins to shade my greens bed.
Any tips or advice on the layout? Any other places I could companion plant to give things a boost? Thinking of also doing alyssum wherever there's extra space.
by Grand-Blackberry-289
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Have you figured out what you’re going to do? Replace the baby bok choy and the bok choy with come July or even June? I hope to put mine out in a couple weeks because they are Frost tolerant and I’ve already started them inside. I’m in MA zone 6B. You seem to have a lot of space in many of your beds. Have you considered putting peas in at the same time as the bok choy or also adding kale, cilantro and radishes? All things that can go out early.
Do you love calendula or are you growing them for a different reason? You might add some other flours such as zinnias or smaller sunflowers. You could also put the bush beans in the same bed as the pole beans if you can figure out how to reach them.
I like to put basil in the same pot or right in the same area as my tomatoes, Dill is a great pollinator attractor and can go anywhere. Same for parsley. Love oregano too and can go anywhere
How large is each garden bed sqft wise? I would definitely make sure I took advantage of both sides of each trellis, because your pumpkins and cucumbers are unlikely to go all the way over! I find my zucchini does best when I let it bush out instead of the zucchini “tree” method. I would plant something like pole beans or possibly a vining squash on that side to take full advantage, and something similar on the other side of the pumpkin trellis! You can also totally squeeze some more crops like bush beans in between those strawberries too! Whenever I have any dead space I always throw bush beans in because they’re nitrogen fixing crops. The less open space, the slower your garden beds will dry out.