Companion Planting - Top Tips from Sarah Raven

Companion plants work in perfect partnership to control pests, reduce infection, or encourage a higher yield.

Many professional flower and vegetable gardeners will have stories of successful partnerships between plants, from tagetes protecting tomatoes from whitefly to summer savory helping to prevent blackfly on broad beans.

Sarah Raven, gardening expert shares her top tips on what we could all be doing this year.

[kmorrell]

What a fabulously informative video. Thank you.

[rogerjacobs]

I'm in the US, in the Maritime Northwest, growing zone 8b, very similar to the UK, I also am loathe to use insectisides. I found quite by accident that "volunteer" plants, seeds that dropped from last years plants, come in much earlier, are way hardier, and resisitant to bug attack, mildew, etc. Most of my plants are annuals and reseed very readily. I suspect the parent plant passes on genetically an enhanced ability to deal with whatever pest is in that locale. I also tried leaving my dahlias in the ground over winter. I lost a couple, but the ones that did survive came in way earlier than the tubers I planted this summer. I had flowers about 6-8 weeks before the others. I enjoyed your video, thanks for sharing! 😎

[helenlundberg]

Thank you for sharing your experience!

[chrisogrady]

Wonderful organic gardening tips. Very interesting!

[juliadroy]

Thank you Sarah so useful as I suffer with black spot on mu roses and I don't use fungicides xx

[bohemiangardensandgourdfar]

Great info especially about nasturtium and cabbage whites... thanks

[pamd]

I'm wondering if any salvia varieties such as Amistad or Wendy's wish would work as well near roses as the ones Sarah mentioned?

[pamelacarroll]

The soft focus on Sarah’s lovely face is very distracting.