
| Bio-Intensive Approach to Small-Scale Household Food Production (IIRR, 1993, 180 p.) |
| Crop management |
"Companion" plants have complementary physical and chemical demands. They will grow well together. "Antagonistic" plants have a negative effect on one another. Avoid planting them close to each other.
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Vegetable |
Companion |
Antagonist |
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Abelmoschus esculentus (ladyfinger) |
sweet potato, swamp cabbage, squash, radish, pechay (Brassica chinensis) | |
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Allium cepa (onion) |
lettuce, beets, tomato |
peas, beans |
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Allium sativum (garlic) |
carrot, lettuce, beets, tomato |
peas, beans |
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Apium graveolens (celery) |
cabbage family, tomato, bush bean | |
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Asparagus officinale (asparagus) |
tomato | |
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Beta vulgaris (beets) |
onion, garlic |
pole beans |
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Brassicas (cabbage family) |
potato, celery, beet, onion, garlic |
pole beans |
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Colocasia esculenta (taro) |
sweet potato, swamp cabbage | |
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Cucumis sativus (cucumber) |
corn, pole beans, ladyfinger, cowpea, radish, eggplant |
potatoes |
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Cucurbita maxima (squash) |
bottle gourd, sponge gourd, bitter gourd, cucumber | |
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Ipomoea aquatica (swamp cabbage) |
taro, sweet potato, cassava (Manihot esculenta), tomato, ladyfinger, corn, eggplant, amaranth (Amaranthus gracilis) | |
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Ipomoea batatas (sweet potato) ladyfinger, |
corn, cassava, eggplant, pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) | |
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Lactuca sativa (lettuce) |
carrots, radish, cucumber | |
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Lagenaria siceraria (bottle gourd) |
sponge gourd, bitter gourd, cucumber | |
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Luffa cylindrica (sponge gourd) |
bottle gourd, |
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bitter gourd, cucumber | | |
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Lycopersicon Iycopersicum |
onion, lettuce, sweet potato, |
potato, cabbage |
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(tomato) |
radish, swamp cabbage, | |
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squash, pechay, garlic, asparagus, carrots | |
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Momordica charantia |
lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus), | |
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(bitter gourd) |
hyacinth bean (Dolichos lablab), | |
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winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus), | |
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pole bean | |
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Phaseolus aureus (mungbean) |
corn, sorghum (Andropogon sorghum) | |
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Phaseolus vulgaris (snap bean) |
corn, carrot, cucumber, potato, |
onion, garlic |
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cabbage family |
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Raphanus sativus (radish) |
beans, cucumber, lettuce | |
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Solanum melongena (eggplant) |
beans, lettuce, |
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sweet potato, |
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swamp cabbage, squash, pechay, | |
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radish, pepper (Capsicum annuum) | |
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Solanum tuberosum (potato) |
garlic, beans, corn, cabbage |
cucumber, tomato |
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Vigna sesquipedalis (pole bean) |
corn |
onion, beet |
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Vigna sinensis (bush bean) |
potato, cucumber, corn, celery |
onion |