What's the oddest plant you've grown with another?

[Snadger]

I'm rapidly running out of space for planting stuff and need some inspiration for 'interesting' use of space!
Today I've planted two rows of tatties with a row of gladioli in between.

I've just finished hoeing the garlic which is an upright plant and thought about dotting calabrese in between..........trouble is I don't think they are compatable?

My other gladioli are planted around my fruit bushes with annual chrysanths dotted in between. Another bed of tatties has a row of sunflowers planted at the rear of it.

I have tagetes which I intend planting around my tomatoes (they are true companions.)

What I am looking for is plants that aren't usually associated with companion planting and in particular, where the heck am I going to put the miriad of brassica seedlings I have sitting in nursery pots?

[zazen999]

Snadger; I grow garlic and onions anywhere, including inbetween any brassicas. One grows up and one grows down so that's compatible enough for me. I grow poppies and flax with my veg; and tagetes of course. Nothing unusual tho'. Although there have been comments about my mixing carrots and coriander to keep carrot fly away.

i also heel in brassicas in, or leave them be until I have space. Or can they go in pots in corners somewhere until you have space? the first year I vege gardened my OH sowed all the veg seeds together [bless] so we had to hold some back and succession 'pot on'; it worked a dream and I learnt that brassicas can actually sit still in little pots for a while; whilst their brothers and sisters get on with growing an earlier crop.

[SarzWix]

Have you got time & materials to pot them on? I've ended up doing that with mine because they're following over-wintered onions which won't be coming out for another few weeks yet!

[Wren]

I am growing runner beans in amongst tatties. The runner beans are way over the heads of the tatties already an the tatties shade their roots an act as a mulch. I am figuring that the tatties being of the late verity will be ready to harvest when the beans are done with.

We see eh!.. It were just an experiment anyways.

Wren

[zazen999]

Wren; that sounds a fine plan to me; I know some that grow peas inbetween spuds and I might well do so myself now. It would save digging over another bed just yet.

[pigletwillie]

Unplanned but I have mature asparagus growing through my brussel bed. I think this winter the asparagus will be treated a bit more carefully now that I know its there.

[Demeter]

We're putting chard in with raspberries...

[BarleySugar]

I've got primroses planted around the bottom of one blueberry bush, and cranberries around the bottom of the other. Don't know if the primroses are compatible, but I wanted to give some colour to the pot. In the main garden I've put celeriac in amongst hardy carnations, broad beans along the bottom of the grapevine trellis, and I planted lettuce in the same pot as a dahlia before it sprouted, the lettuce were used before the dahlia shoots got very large. I poke any plant in where it will fit. The different shaped leaves and shades of green fit in well, think of the green gardens at Chelsea. I've now got some kohl rabi to find somewhere for and some lettuce that need space too.

[Duronal]

I've got parsley at the bottom of my bay tree pot and poppies at the bottom of my apple tree.

Calendulas at the bottom of my corn to keep the greenfly away later in the season. Onions are all over, dotted with poppies, apart from that i've got the standard kitchen tubs of corriander, basil and parsley.

I did have some corriander at the base of my cabbages (in pots) but it bolted almost straight away,

I'm trying Climbing beans and peas but i'm non too hopeful of the success of that one. (the peas obviously need a different support to string. I'm not sure how to solve it either! Any ideas?

D

[heebiejeebie]

Someone I know has a veg patch full of volunteer potatoes and poppies.
I have JAs coming up with my raspberries

[Garden_girlie21]

I have weeds growing pretty much everywhere :P

Jennifer