5 Best Companion Plants for Tomatoes for Maximum Yields and Healthy Plants & 2 Plants Tomatoes Hate

Great video! Thanks for posting this info! For the impatient people like myself... Marigold - 2:30 Chives - 3:41 Peppermint - 5:12 Parsley - 6:30 Basil - 7:15 Potatoes - 9:00 Walnut Trees - 9:40 You're welcome. ; )

Green beans are wonderful to plant at the base of your tomato plants. They keep the weeds down and set nitrogen to the soil. Later when tomato has grown it shades the green beans so they don't get sun scald and produce longer. Thanks for the suggestions!

I planted garlic in the beds with kale, spinach, and cabbage two weeks ago. I removed the skin and placed it in the beds. The garlic is now 2-3 inches and all the vegetables are insect free.

I've just found you and immediately subscribed. I very much like the fact that you get straight to the point. Cannot stand those that yap on and on and on.

Thanks for sharing this video! Great info 😊 5- Marigolds (French; tangerine variety best) 4- Allium plant family, esp onions, garlic & chives 3- Peppermint 2- Parsley 1- Basil (let some flower to attract bees) Don’t grow potatoes around your tomatoes & don’t plant near walnut trees

We have so many toilet paper rolls I was saving for crafts decided to use them for seedlings and they decompose, the root system is amazing and no mold, no over watering they keep moisture!

I know you had this one tomato video that had millions of views but honestly this one should have just as many views and likes, thank you.

oh my goodness! tomatoe, basil and fresh mozzarella on a French baguette with olive oil, oregano and salt yum!

Just planted my tomatoes next to spring onions and only after realized that i didnt check if they worked together. So imagine my joy when you said the alium family i could have hugged you. Thank you for your great content

The pot pa.rt is important. I put one little mint plant in one end of my 20 foot long ten foot wide section of my garden. By end of season, it had spread throughout the 8 foot wide garden and COVERED up a good 5 foot length of that garden. I had to spend a great of time digging up mint the next year. I gott got what seemed to be all of the mint out. However, I have had mint popping up all over that bed ever since. Don't put mint anywhere you don't want a lot of it. 😬

The best way I ever found to get rid of hornworms was a bright red Cardinal. I had just spotted those nasty worms all over my tomatoes and I was literally looking up the best way of getting rid of them as they seemed to come up overnight. I glanced out the window and a Cardinal was on my tomatoes just going to town. I don't know how one bird could possibly eat SO much. He came back every day for about a week. I could no longer find a single worm. My tomatoes took off again and put out SO many fruits. I've always liked Cardinals, but now I love them.

I planted marigolds with my tomatoes last year and had the best crop ever with zero pest issues. I’m a believer!

I was told about marigolds last year when buying my tomatoes so I planted a bunch in my first garden. I did only containers & had peppers, peppermint, marigolds & tons of basil (mostly Thai) planted all around my tomatoes. I just love basil! Maybe that’s why my garden was so successful & I had more bees than my neighbor who’s been gardening for years. I left my basil to flower (because I didn’t know you had to pinch them till my neighbor told me) but I didn’t notice leaves being bitter! & I used them a lot in my cooking. I made some Pho! 😋 I also love peppermint! I planted peppermint, chocolate mint, spearmint, lemon mint & sweet mint (No bad bugs, no rodents, no squirrels!) This year I’m starting all from seeds & planting in ground, except for my herbs! Wish me luck!

Im in South Africa... and we are in lockdown.... I have decided to grow and attempt to be self sufficient. I cannot tewll you how fantastic I am finding your videos....and valuable wisdom! - Pete Guthrie

i saw your video on planting marigolds to help keep pests away from tomatoes! I have been cutting up my marigold plants a day or two before the first frost of the fall and spreading the plants all thru my garden! Really seems to help! FYI A few years ago I had a large patch of nastursums that got little black bug underneath the leaves causing them to wilt and die! After putting the cut up marigold old plants into these beds, in thefall, the next years there has been NO little black bugs since!

Here's an interesting aside: I started planting parsley for me, & I got plenty! Still using the 1st years crop 3 yrs later! Then I noticed beautiful bright green/yellow caterpillars eating the parsley. Did an online search, found it to be the laeva of a butterfly. So the 2 yrs since I've planted it exclusively for the butterfly. Long story short, I've not ever seen parsley bloom!

I like to remind myself that scientific studies are newer than the knowledge passed down through generations, so just because there isn’t a study doesn’t mean there won’t be someday. I like to experiment for myself, based on both science and generational knowledge, in pretty much everything I do. Great, informational video as usual! I’ve been watching a lot of your videos lately and have subscribed to your channel. You’re teaching me a lot that I am implementing in my current garden. Keep it up!

Loved this vid . I plant Nasturshims all around the garden for bees and near my tomatoes! I soak the seeds for a night and just pop then near my veggies to bring color and joy .I suspect they give off some kinda magic protection. Also i bury a match or two next to my tomatoes to ward off Hornwormes(wierd yet interesting alien like worms) LOL! As children we fed them to the Chickens! My cousin told me about the matches , she is a good gardener.She did Farmers Market for ages kinda good. And i also read that if you squeeze ( bruise) with your fingers a few of the lower stems , that it releases something that repels the Hornworms .Dont pick those branches off, let them wilt.I eventually remove them when they dry up and occasionally bruise another lower small branch just for good measure. I have done this many times and have not had issues. But i do wait until my plants are well established around fifteen inches tall give or take.I do all three things and usually have awesome tomatoes.I am supprized at how well Nasturshims flourish and happy at the creatures they attract.Going to check out growing all our veggies in containers this year so i can move them if they don`t dig on where is put them, Goin to check out your other vids <3 spring ...Woot wooooo!I`m setting out my maters today!!!!

Last year had a Brandywine tomato, placed it full sunlight. It lived from May until November, everyone I knew their's died off in September. Only Fertilizer used was Alaskan Fish Fertilizer. Grew near Celery Leaf an Jalapeno pepper. I learned from different site remove all leaves an branches up to 18" from ground. No blight. Left blossom. Hope have just as much luck this year.

I grow many varieties of tomatoes and basil. If you want a basil that is a bee magnet, grow African Blue Basil. I allow it to flower in my veggie garden and it grows and flowers all year long in Southern CA! It's the best for pollinators. Love your videos!