Mixed culture: 9 good neighbors of parsley

Parsley is a popular herb that is easy to grow in the garden. If you want to integrate the parsley into the mixed culture, you have to know which vegetables are suitable and which are not.

Basics of mixed culture

Mixed culture means to socialize different vegetable and herb gardens on one bed. This promises mutual protection against pests and diseases and the improvement of growth properties. With mixed cultivation, it is important to consider all plant families of the vegetables used in order to maintain the crop rotation. There must also be enough space so that the planting spacing is maintained

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Good neighbors

Parsley is a bit tricky when it comes to socializing in the vegetable patch, but it can be grown in a pot by the kitchen window. As for good neighbors in the garden, they shouldn't be more closely related to parsley.

Note: Unfortunately, parsley is not in good hands in a herb bed, as it is hardly compatible with other herbs, at most annual herbs can stand nearby.

Onion vegetables

In addition to the normal onions, this also includes leeks.

• The smell of parsley drives away the onion fly, the pest digs passages in onion vegetables and makes them inedible
• The smell of onions drives away pests on the parsley

root vegetable

Parsley goes particularly well with radishes or radishes.

• Radishes are suitable for marking rows with parsley seeds
• the sharp aroma of the radish protects the parsley

Fruit vegetables

Parsley likes to grow together with tomatoes or cucumbers, then also in the company of other herbs such as borage.

• is 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 Swiss chard make great, lettuce is a bad neighbor.

• Spinach is also suitable as a green manure
• Leftovers can remain on the bed as mulch and protect against weeds and drought
• large leaves of the chard protect the parsley seedlings from drying out
• they also protect against excessive sunlight, which the parsley does not like

Strawberries

A few parsley plants between the strawberries protect them from pests.

Unsuitable plant neighbors

In principle, other umbelliferae are not suitable to grow with parsley. This includes:

• Carrots
• celery
• dill
• fennel
• chervil

In addition, no other umbellifers should grow on this bed for the next 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 go. Mostly they are descendants of the swallowtail, they do not endanger the plants.