Parsley is a popular culinary herb that is easy to grow in the garden. If you want to integrate parsley into the mixed culture, you have to know which vegetables are suitable for it and which are not.
Fundamentals of mixed culture
Mixed culture means combining different vegetable and herb gardens in one bed. This is expected to provide mutual protection against pests and diseases and improve growth properties. When it comes to mixed cultivation, it is important to take into account all plant families of the vegetables used in order to adhere to the crop rotation. There must also be enough space so that the planting distances can be maintained
Good neighbors
Parsley is a bit tricky when it comes to growing in the vegetable patch, but it can be grown easily in a pot by the kitchen window. As far as good neighbors in the garden are concerned, they should not be closely related to parsley.
Note:
Unfortunately, parsley is not a good choice in a herb bed as it hardly gets along with other herbs; only annual herbs can be kept nearby.
Onion vegetables
In addition to the normal onions, this also includes leeks.
- Smell of parsley drives away the onion fly, the pest digs tunnels in onion vegetables and makes them inedible
- Smell of onions drives away pests on parsley
Root vegetables
Parsley goes particularly well with radishes or radishes.
- Radishes are suitable for marking rows of parsley seeds
- hot aroma of the radish protects the parsley
Fruit vegetables
Parsley likes to grow together with tomatoes or cucumbers, and then also in the company of other herbs, such as borage.
- suitable as a ground cover for pots
- Smell drives away aphids
- Tomatoes, cucumbers and parsley can be harvested together for salad
Leafy vegetables
When it comes to leafy vegetables, it is important to distinguish between good and bad neighbors for parsley. While spinach and chard are good, lettuce is a bad neighbor.
- Spinach is also suitable as a green manure
- Remnants can remain on the bed as mulch and protect against weeds and drought
- large chard leaves protect parsley seedlings from drying out
- they also protect against strong sunlight, which parsley doesn't like
Strawberries
A few parsley plants between the strawberries protect them from pests.
Unsuitable plant neighbors
Basically, other umbelliferous plants are not suitable for growing together with parsley. These include:
- Carrots
- Celery
- Dill
- Fennel
- Chervil
In addition, no other umbelliferous plants should grow on this bed in the following 4 years. This prevents the spread of pests or diseases.
Note:
If you find individual small, colorful butterfly caterpillars on your umbelliferous plants, let them be. Most of them are descendants of the swallowtail, they do not endanger the plants.
