10 Plant Combos to Try in Your Raised Beds

You don't need a companion planting chart to figure out how to plant up your garden. You only need to know 3 things about each plant to figure out what to plant together, and I've got 10 incredible plant combinations to get you started. Let me know in the comments which one you're for sure gonna try out in your garden!
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[@hisomebodytrackingmuch1309]

Shake your seeds all you want! Thank you for the wonderful plans😊

[@lorraineyanez4301]

I m so appreciative my grandfather made the effort to teach me about plants at a young age. So many people don't understand plants. the food we grow is medicine.

[@brendacavanaugh3104]

You had some great suggestions that gave me some more ideas for my garden. Thank you. Dont worry about people being critical of you moving your hands alot. I do it too.

[@alionaayub4907]

Oh lord!!! Please people ! If you are short tempered or sensory because of her hands movements please find a video that suits you on speed and sensory movement. That’s the great part of KZbin many videos available. She’s trying to give as much info she cans in one video for you all or you prefer 3 more video time to watch what she can fit in one video just be nice and say Thank you for god sake

[@stewbugz5213]

Well said! I said it must be a Karen convention.

[@thereturnoffrancesblogg]

​@stewbugz5213 as an actual Karen, I can testify that this far exceeds average Karen capacity. This is more insidious, indolent contrarianism. Higher class, less sincerity, less of the on- the-surface, genuinely out of touch quality of your typical garden variety (🤣) Karen.

[@virginia6158]

Love this concept! And your suggestions are helpful. Sometimes choosing varieties and just designing the garden is the hardest part. Thank you!

[@StromanFamily]

This is great thank you for sharing!! First time I’ve heard an experience gardener share such great tips for groups of plants. Keep being you! Move your hands all you want 🫶

[@jayoue1515]

😂😂

[@TRUTHRULES777]

I had one kale plant it grew and grew and then I bought one more. They grow year-round almost where I live in Pacific Northwest. And now I have kale growing around my onions and everything else I grow it’s in just in pots, some of it in the ground and it’s great for soup and things. I feel blessed. Can’t believe it when you do what you do it’s amazing what happens the Earth is so wonderful.. today I just decided to purchase some purple asparagus online. It was a good price and I can’t wait. I like asparagus and I know it takes time and you have to have the right area for it so I’m excited.

[@flavforpar]

You are a legend!!!!

[@brooklyn3534]

I would love to see a video of these all together one day in your garden!! 😊

[@CraigBensemannNZ]

Also if i could make one suggestion - you talk a lot with your hands which is great but it does mean the seed packets are bobbing around quite a bit for anyone wanting to grab the varieties etc.

[@geraldphillips1533]

You keep shaking those seed packets- not cool.

[@CoenCoenNL]

Also, use some Celsius values, to include the non-US world ;).

[@catheyjoyce]

I’m getting sea sick trying to read the seed packets! Please don’t hold the packets, lean them up against something so we can read them! 😵‍💫 Thank you.

[@denisehall956]

Please stop shaking the seed packets

[@babuffy]

Thank you love this and no you didn’t move too much! Anyone who gardens knows the Baker Creek catalog!!👏🏻

[@tf9592]

Thank you for the wonderful FREE information you're sharing!

[@rachelwonders8975]

Pole beans and tomatoes on the same trellis! Never in a million years thought of that. Same with cucumbers & beans. I always have marigolds w cucumbers and often sunflowers. Occasionally peppers if I run out of room everywhere else.. but again with the beans lol. And purple just means so much easier to find them 🎉😂❤ I already planned on a total revamp of my garden space this year-now I'm revamping my revamp 😅 this is why I never finalized anything until the plant is IN the ground 😂 happy gardening friends❤

[@heidiweinert3260]

I feel proud of myself. I actually made a similar arrangement in one of my beds! I am trying to do planting more like this. I found you just in time! I have Copenhagen Cabbage, bush peas, and radishes together. I better get busy and throw a flower in there.

[@marielefebvre5891]

Thanks for sharing the artistic & creative side of gardening! It’s inspiring to see that it’s not all about science & data & numbers.

[@tamie5550]

Thank you so much for all the information. I'm a visual learner. I would love to see this garden and how you planted it. I've decided to grow this year. Again, thank you.

[@speakrighttogod]

Yes, vids or pics would have been nice to see!

[@roxannern9393]

Thanks for sharing! I have grown very similar to warm weather #2 and #3 and cool weather #2. Like you, I believe in utilizing (stuffing) every possible space with a variety (whatever fits) in garden spaces. However, I really like your approach of, "leaf, root, fruit." So much simpler than trying to remember and time saving referencing books every year! Proficiency, my favorite word and way! Thanks again!!! From your method, I can imagine so many possibilities - "teach a man to fish"

[@juliandbob2383]

I was taking notes! Can’t wait to plant these. Thank you. :)

[@donnayoung5942]

I love this idea! Thank you for all the combos.

[@TRUTHRULES777]

I like the snap peas and I’ve grown cabbage, but I wasn’t that thrilled. It was OK just seem like it took a while but I might try the Napa cabbage that sounds like a great one to try. Thank you.

[@suevallejo8645]

I want to do ALL the combos!!

[@helenpanitt7365]

It’s great to find your youtube programs Nicole. I got started with Gardenary during the Pandemic, and I really enjoy raised bed gardening here in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. I still have a lot to learn so I will keep coming back.

[@mystifrazier5823]

Ty so much. I’ve been told that eggplant can be difficult but I had no idea that there are mini varieties!! Looking forward to growing them.

[@heatherjacobsen5426]

This was wonderful! I spend sooo much time last year stressing and searching companion plants and what would hurt or help others. I'm excited to get out to the garden this year and try these combos!!

[@Gardenary]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Berdie-if4yb]

Squash, pole beans, bell peppers, marigold. Love all your help with your teaching. Thank you.

[@sharonjennings1282]

This is one of the very best videos that I have seen in a long time. Thank you for sharing all of this information with us and I am definitely downloading the calendar. I have been gardening for quite a few years now, and really haven’t done any of the combinations that you have. I like to have an organic garden so happy to see what canattract the pests away from the fruits. This is the first time I have seen a video from you, and I have definitely subscribed! Please keep them coming! I am so excited to get things started in my garden.😊

[@pamnorris3331]

Super inspiring! Great ideas, I will be trying for cool weather the kale, peas, arugula, and those pansies! For warm weather probably all, seriously 😊

[@alainarhodes5959]

This was soooo helpful. Thank you!!

[@sureshrashid9589]

Brilliant! 👏👍🙏

[@TRUTHRULES777]

I have chives, onions, Arlich, and oregano that grows right in the ground and rockeries and stuff and also I do grow those things and pots. I have a very sunny area that I have to use pots to get the heat. It’s great. I didn’t have any bugs yet of any terrible situation? I don’t know. I just feel blessed, I’ve loved since I was seventh grade for sure and had books on it but I’ll tell you sometimes you just get lucky and you just buy stuff and you think well I’m gonna put this here and then later you say oh my gosh, I have the good stuff right around the plants that need these plants around it. It’s so fun. It’s always a learning experience.Good for the Soul❤️

[@jcrane45585]

I love these kinds of videos

[@Ashas.Garden]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 very informative! Happy New Year! 🎉

[@TRUTHRULES777]

I’ve learned about companion planting and it was funny because I would have chives and garlic right next to maybe tomatoes or this or that and then I just happen to come across it more recently and I had some of the plants so I put them more close or just left them if they were in good proximity to the plants really done well. You just can’t fight it.. so you have to find a way and it’s funny. I think it just happens sometimes it’s it’s the beauty of nature you find it and you just let it be.🌞❤️

[@skyenyatan8018]

Thank you I'll try this

[@marissamedina-cole9136]

Loved this video. Thank you! ❤

[@carlaadams1386]

Great ideas, thanks

[@jayoue1515]

Great combos and thanks for explaining why, where & how! 1 Question: the last set. Do the cherry tomatoes, and the green beans grow up a trellis? Thank you! So inspiring!!

[@christinakostadinova7579]

Very informative! Thank you for sharing 💚👌🏻

[@jcrane45585]

Love your style too! Cute sweater

[@keishawiggins1819]

This is an awesome video. ❤im always trying to figure out the combination to plant everything. Love all of the combinations. I'm going to try them all. I have most of seeds you recommended. TY for the great information! ❤😊 🍆 🍅 🌼

[@felicit221]

Loved your video, but I got motion sickness trying to read the seed packages😢

[@garyfrost8166]

Take a picture with your phone then enlarge it. This is what we do.

[@speakrighttogod]

@@garyfrost8166 She should hold the package still. Pretty simple!

[@Thankful_.]

Very informative! Thank you! 🌱☀️❤️😊

[@user-dw9es4wt8m]

Love the information in this video and will incorporate the plan in my own garden but I agree with the comment above…the hand shaking around the seed packets was distracting and made it difficult to really see the varieties you were sharing. Thank you, though! ❤

[@TinaHarris]

I definitely want to try warm combos #2 and #4. I can see the colors!

[@ETfriend]

Great information

[@kellyhenigsmith8545]

Great info! Thanks for sharing this info with us. We love ordering from Baker Creek also.

[@amym9834]

I just found your channel not long ago and I can't wait to get started this spring! What an inspiration your channel is, when is the kitchen cookbook coming out? Did I miss that? Best wishes.

[@user-jn9rj7hm6u]

from calendula flowers can be made soap or massage or kitchen oil.

[@beckymartinez9926]

I really liked all of your combos and never thought of mixing them up like little vignettes lol I’m definitely going to try that next time. I do interplant and companion plant but never thought of it like this. Trellising a tomato and beans sounds great but what if you want lots of tomatoes and beans? Also as I’m sure you have read in many of the comments it was quite difficult watching this but great content. Thanks for sharing. Super excited to try this. Would love to see examples that you’ve grown.

[@bbingtube]

Markit 8 cucumbers from San Diego Seed Co are aggressive AF in zone 10. Their San Marzanos are hands down the best acclimated for SoCal if you’re a real sauce maker maker

[@ajb.822]

You may need to keep a trap crop type of plant further away from the plants you want protected, idk, but in some cases people have definitely said that. Like, far side of the garden or yard.

[@user-jn9rj7hm6u]

calendula = self seeding, usually i let it grow where it thrives giving the humble bees their food all year long.

[@ajb.822]

Jesse Frost and other No Till growers out there have some good tips on companion planting also, along with relay cropping and any type of thing like that. What's worked, what hasn't, etc. . A fun topic ! Haven't tried cilantro in salads... partly because I haven't really liked it - was one of those who initially hated it, when I 1st had it, a ways into adulthood. It didn't taste like soap to me though, and it's gradually grown on me and now that I've had a love some Thai food flavors, I'll have to try this ! I only discovered Dill leaves in ( lettuce) salads a couple years ago, and that is AMAZINGLY good !

[@eldermidwife1986]

Wish you had pictures of these groups growing together

[@Gardenary]

We have tons of pictures of intensively planted gardens on the Gardenary blog! Honestly, you'll notice in pics that we tend to pack in more plants than in these simplified plans. We rarely keep it to 3-5 plants in one raised bed.

[@bbingtube]

In life…. I have a pretty diverse range of companions. js

[@SparkiMcSparks]

I'm pretty excited about these combos. Not sure which I'm doing but definitely inspired after taking inventory of my seeds today. Also..I had no problem reading your packets. You did fine.

[@evelyntrazo5857]

Thank you Maam for sharing your knowledge. I love all your combo's. I'm from the Phils. what store could we buy chamomile seeds? I was looking for it but fould not find the last time I was there.I have some relatives in the US that could buy for me. .

[@VivianLittle-xq2nx]

It would be nice to have a chart or drawing of the placement of different plants in each combo bed so we can take a screen shot & makes notes later in our garden journals.

[@Gardenary]

We have that on the Gardenary blog!

[@anacalix2111]

Loved the video! I just would like to know if you can have more than one of these combinations in the same bed?

[@Gardenary]

Definitely! Just be mindful of the size of plants so you don't block sunlight

[@jewlstime]

Are you direct sowing??

[@norajfield1086]

How about planting in containers. Do you plant in rounds or rows? Very interesting way of gardening!

[@Gardenary]

I plant in steel containers, too. We like to do rows of small, medium, and large plants in the garden bed. The Gardenary method evolved as a hybrid of Square Foot Gardening and row gardening. It works really well!

[@handsfullofgoodthings]

What's a good combo with growing sweet potatoes?

[@Gardenary]

I'd just do a whole bed of sweet potatoes honestly. Makes for easier harvesting

[@crackerjack010101]

Lots of good ideas but if I’ve missed a name or can’t spell it there’s zero chances I’m going to be able to read it on the package. You talk with your hands a TON. If you could find a prop where you lay the package so it is still while your hands keep doing the things they do, it would be super appreciated. I’m thinking a recipe easel or similar way to have a way to lay them down and still capture them with the cam.

[@Gardenary]

Here's an article with the same info: www.gardenary.com/blog/10-plant-combos-to-try-for-easy-companion-planting

[@utubemouse]

@@Gardenary Thank you-the article is lovely with great graphics and pictures!

[@klbailey1967]

I didn't know you could mix tomatoes and peppers? I thought cross-pollination was a thing?😮

[@user-jn9rj7hm6u]

eggplants use to have mushroom flavour

[@storbert1328]

Fava's don't need trellising -- they might need a little support as they get taller and heavier, but they're not climbers, and they don't get much above 30 inches tall.

[@jamaica5930]

I agree - mine reach 48”+, but they are NOT climbers. No trellis necessary. They may need staking- but I just tie a rope around my 4’x4’ patch at around 2’ tall, then at 3’.

[@jayoue1515]

I took tons of screen shots so I don’t have to write anything down and so I can capture the photo of the packets!!

[@amec2755]

Any replacement suggestions for eggplants? We don't eat them. Also, what size are your beds and what's the spacing for planting? Maybe s picture would have helped show an area with one of these groupings? Thanks.

[@donnadavis2883]

I love your ideas on raised bed companion planting…will try it out this year! If I could ask one thing with your videos…please, stop bouncing the seed packets. You can’t read them well plus it makes you so dizzy with them bouncing up and down. Thank you!

[@ruthcalsada1440]

All. Lol

[@mcoffeecation2153]

Calendar link did not work.

[@brendahowell5946]

Thanks didn’t know lady bugs were good for garden . Are they the ones they call tater bugs

[@Gardenary]

Potato bugs are pests

[@coneflower5101]

Don't shake the seed package. Cant see them. Good ideas .

[@goodnessineverybite2378]

I love your videos but it makes it hard to catch the name off the package of seeds and its kinda nausious when your moving around the package quickly..lol may want to not move the package seeds around as much in your next video. I truly enjoy watching your videos and have learned alot ,,keep up the good work :)

[@Gardenary]

Here's a blog post so you don't have to try to read the seed packets ;) www.gardenary.com/blog/10-plant-combos-to-try-for-easy-companion-planting

[@goodnessineverybite2378]

@@Gardenary Thank you so much..greatly appreciate it :)

[@myronsliles8970]

Please hold the package of seeds still. Your making me dizzy

[@budbarrett8056]

A search for the calendar results in a 404 error

[@Gardenary]

Hi there, try here: www.gardenary.com/garden-calendar

[@deridavid5810]

Still not working for me. 404 error

[@velezjames]

Your videos are so informative, but If you can setup an small easel or something to put the seeds on. Your shaking the seeds way to much.

[@MarshaLewisSaltAirShoreLines]

BE STILL !! I can’t see the packets or even concern what your saying

[@elizabethmantini6774]

Love this video but please please stop shaking the package up and down your making me dizzy and it makes it difficult to read and see the picture. Keep up the good work.

[@user-ww8nz5oo2l]

theres a reason plants are companions. just because you like color variation doesnt make it beneficial in any way. the only thing youre right about is marigold and squash

[@Tracy-plant.lover-]

Please quit shaking the seed packets when you are showing them. No reason to shake it up and down while we are trying to look at it. I am sure I am not the only person who would appreciate it. Thanks

[@lindak5036]

No spinach! oxalates! Do some research!

[@lisawhitehouse9267]

I had a hard time watching when your packets are constantly moving.

[@Gardenary]

There's a blog version at gardenary.com/blog

[@theresazelazny7445]

Very disturbing watching a bobbing seed packet. It distracts from hearing your very useful information.

[@lurk1953]

Yup

[@cleop2813]

good lord...please hold your hands still for a second.. can't see the seed packets and is making me motion sick.

Please STOP shaking the seed packets around!

[@russellpeters21]

Why, does it hurt the seeds feelings?

No, it hurts my eyes! Just had to make a reply, didn't you. @@russellpeters21

[@szu-pingchangwong3523]

Please don't move your hands if you want to show us the packages. The combination of the plants sounds interesting but you are not very clear on how to put them together.

[@dianegallantmarion3437]

Watching those seed packets jumping around become so annoying, I had to stop watching. Too bad, too, such fabulous ideas. Please be mindful of what your viewer sees. Watch it yourself, you’ll see.

[@empressgrockslocs4446]

I thought it was just me. Stop shaking the freaking packages for goodness sakes.

[@lanoredixon170]

This was informative but it would have been so much better if you'd held the seed packets still instead of shaking them in front of the camera...I couldn't get a good look at the plants because you were shaking them--very distracting.

[@janharmston7106]

Please stop shaking the seed packets!! I can’t even watch anymore.

[@f_girl14]

Thank you so much for the tips! I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experience. Great video!