Companion planting charts: good pairs, Three Sisters, good and avoid

Vegetable gardeners plan which plants grow well side by side and which to keep apart. These nine landscape charts show six good pairs, such as tomato with basil and carrot with onion; the Three Sisters mound of corn, beans and squash; and a good-and-avoid table. Each comes in a botanical ink style, a flat vector style or a garden notebook page. You can also type a request, such as herb garden, to shape the chart.

• a planting plan pinned up in the shed
• a teaching chart for a school garden
• a reference for a raised bed
• a gift for a keen gardener

Frequently asked questions

What is the Three Sisters planting?

It is a mound where corn stands in the middle, beans climb its stalks and squash spreads over the ground.

Do the pairings work in every garden?

The charts show common pairings, not a guarantee. Soil, climate and variety change the result.

What are the three styles?

Botanical is ink and watercolour on cream, flat vector uses bold shapes in leaf green, soil brown and sunny yellow, and garden notebook is coloured pencil on lined kraft paper.

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