What you can and can’t plant strawberries next to: your harvest depends on it

15.04.2024 21:20

Strawberries are a non-conflict crop, but they still have their “ill-wishers”.

Anastasia Kovrizhnykh, an expert of the online publication Belnovosti, agronomist and landscape designer, talks about favorable and unfavorable neighbors for strawberries.

What you can and cannot plant strawberries next to

Strawberries like to be next to legumes, radishes, carrots, garlic, onions, parsley, sage, borage, spinach, lettuce, and sorrel.

Of the flowers, strawberries get along well with irises, tulips, marigolds, peonies, clematis, ferns, delphiniums, and nasturtiums.

Strawberries can also be planted in the trunk circles of some trees and berry bushes (spruce, pine, grapes, sea buckthorn).

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Bad neighbors for strawberries are nightshades, carnations, raspberries, Jerusalem artichokes and sunflowers.

Earlier, an expert explained why lettuce grows bitter.

Timur Khomichev Author: Timur Khomichev Internet resource editor

Anastasia Kovrizhnykh Expert: Anastasia KovrizhnykhExpert / Belnovosti