Higgs Boson wrote:
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 8:07:53 AM UTC-7, Brooklyn1 wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 13:17:37 +0200, Tinor

wrote:





Hi



I have made a few raised beds for a vegetable garden, and am
looking at

creating a border to hide the fence/wall around the bottom of my
garden.

Perhaps using trellis.



Is there any recommended plants/flowers I could use- or any to

particularly avoid when planting next to vegetables/fruit.



I plant marigolds.

There is tons of stuff on-line about companion planting for
*veggies*: don't plant X next to Y; do plant A and B next to each
other. Very useful!

Very exaggerated. There are some plants that do not play well with others
(allelopathy) by making biochemicals harmful to others or their seeds.
There are possibly some that may be useful with others, such as to repel
some kinds of pests, if you have those pests and if they work in your
situation.

The tables of friend and foe that are commonly found are wildly over the top
and just create more constraints in a business that is already complicated
enough. Those tables are traditional and much like other traditional
practices (eg moonplanting) have very little or no evidence that they work
and less evidence for how they work.

There is no reason you cannot combine edible plants and good looking ones in
the same garden - they may be same. Try sunflowers as a background, globe
articokes as a feature, parsley as a border etc. The usual rules about
matching soil, sun and water requirements apply.

David

David