Companion Planting with Dill

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  • Good Neighbours / companions
    • Asparagus, 
    • The Brassicas family [Cabbage, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower[may or may not be depends on your reading]  and Kohrabi] Coriander,Chervil, Corn, Cucumbers, Lettuce, Onions and Sweet corn
  • Helps:
    • improve the health and flavor of tomatoes.  However be aware that when left to mature the dill will start to inhibit the tomatoes growth.
    • Protects lettuces from Aphids.
    • With Cabbages Dill generally improves the growth and health as Dill masks the odor of the growing plants.
    • Loves living near lettuces.
    • Cucumbers
    • Onions
  • Helped By:
    • Beans help the Dill plant
  • Attracts
    • beneficial insects such as honey bees, predatory wasps ~ such as Ichneumonid wasps ~  and hover-flies to the nectar of the flower heads. 
    • The tomato worm [ hence why tomatoes do not like it!]
    • Swallowtail butterflies and their caterpillars like Dill too. 
    • Hoverflies
  • Repels / Distracts:
    • Aphids, 
    • Cabbage butterfly / moth. [Cabbage Looper]  
    • SpiderMites
    • Squash bugs
    • May also repel squash bugs.  Even when used as a scatter of leaves over the squash plants.
  • Bad / Not Nice Companions
    • Angelica, Caraway, Carrots, 
    • Nightshade family [Chili and bell peppers [capsicum], Egg Plant, fennel or pototes, tomatoes]
    • Lavender
    • Note : although Dill helps Cabbage the Cabbage is actually a bad companion plant for Dill.

General information
Scientific Name: Anethum graveolens
If you are wanting to harvest the dill seeds then plant the tomatoes well away.

One of the few plants that can grow any where near fennel.

Read more about Dill.

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