Every summer resident has probably heard that proper neighboring in the garden and vegetable garden helps to gather unprecedented harvests.
For example, if you choose the right neighbor for tomatoes, you can expect that the seedlings will get sick less often, and therefore bear fruit better.
Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", an agronomist and landscape designer, told how to increase the yield of tomatoes.
Tomatoes' best friend
Summer residents who find a place in their tomato beds to sow basil will not go wrong.
The plant is useful in cooking, and while the harvest is ripening, the aromatic herb will protect tomato tops from pests and improve fruiting.
How to sow
Basil seeds are scattered directly between the rows.
The method works equally well when growing tomatoes in a greenhouse and in open ground.
Basil will repel the Colorado potato beetle, which can move to tomatoes after treating potatoes.
Hornworms, thrips, flies and other flying pests do not like the smell of basil.
And one more important point. Basil improves the taste of tomatoes if it grows together with tomatoes in the same bed.
Earlier we talked about whether it is necessary to leave cabbage roots in the beds.
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
