Growing Tomatoes

Post by **LovelyLadyLux** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:34 am

Anybody aware of companion plantings for tomatoes? What else takes about the same growing requirements as tomato plants?

Post by **Kevininabydos** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 6:17 am

Marigolds [calundula] grown around them help keep them bug free and attract the pollinators. All "salad" crops can be timed to coincide with cropping.

Post by **Brian Yare** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:15 pm

I tend to grow slugs with my tomatoes, but they are not friendly, so I have to plant slug pellets as well.

Basil is a useful companion though, as it needs a similar large amount of watering.

Post by **LovelyLadyLux** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 4:53 am

BrianY I too am growing tons of slugs!

They just love all my plants.

I never thought about marigolds but on looking them up tonight I see they're a bit of a natural bug repellant. Will give 'em a try, have grown them before and I do know that my pet slugs have loved nipping them off first night they're out in the garden.

Post by **Winged Isis** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 8:16 am

To stop your slugs and snails, surround the plants with a line of sawdust.

Post by **Kevininabydos** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:14 am

A circle of sheet copper [like the old fashioned draft excluder they used to put round doors] smeared with vick vapour rub on the top edge works too [ there is a chemical reaction between their mucus and the copper that gives them an electric type shock!]. Small/deep bowls of beer at soil level works brilliantly [they get drunk, can't get out and drown!].

Post by **Winged Isis** » Sat Jun 11, 2011 12:47 am

Kevininabydos wrote: Small/deep bowls of beer at soil level works brilliantly [they get drunk, can't get out and drown!].

Empty unwashed marg tubs indoors do the same for cockroaches!