"simy1" wrote:
What I would really like to know is if cabbage/broccoli and
tomatoes are friends or foes. Different websites list them as
either. The cabbage could use the shade in midsummer.

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Intercropping
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Remember also the dislikes, and do not plant beans with onion,
garlic or gladiolus, beets with pole beans, the cabbage family with
strawberries, tomatoes or pole beans, or potatoes with pumpkin,
squash, cucumber, suflower, tomato or raspberry.
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Cabbage
....
The cabbage family includes not only cabbage but cauliflower, kale,
kohlrabi, broccoli, collards and Brussels sprouts - even rutabaga
and turnip. While each plant of this group has been developed in a
special way, they are all pretty much subject to the same likes and
dislikes, insects and diseases. Hyssop, thyme, wormwood and
southernwood are helpful in repelling the white cabbage butterfly.
....
All members of the family are greatly helped by aromatic plants,
or those which have many blossoms, such as celery, dill, camomile,
sage, peppermint, rosemary, onions and potatoes.
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Cabbages dislike strawberries, tomatoes and pole beans. All
members of the family are heavy feeders and should have plenty
of compost or well-decomposed cow manure worked into the
ground previous to planting. Mulching will help if soil has a ten-
dency to dry out in hot weather, and water should be given if
necessary.
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"Peas, beans, cabbages and turnips" love soil containing lime (calcium).

The book also goes on to describe beans as of several different varieties,
and explicitly differentiates "bush beans" from "pole beans". Bush beans
and cucumbers mutually benefit each other. Bush beans and strawberrys
mutually benefit each other. Beans in general benefit corn, although pole
beans seem to be favored for planting next to corn. Radishes and pole
beans mutually benefit each other. All beans dislike onions. And celery
benefits bush beans.

The book that that is taken from is titled:

Secrets of Companion Planting For Successful Gardening
by Louise Riotte
Published 1975 by Garden Way Publishing

Hope that helps.

Jim Carlock
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