Companion Planting with Potatoes

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  •    Good Neighbours /  companions   
    • Beans, Cabbage, Marigolds, Peas, Sweet Corn         

  • Helps

  • Helped by: 
    • Horseradish as this plant increases the disease resisence of the potato.
  • Attracts
  • Repels/ Distracts
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  • Bad / Not nice companions   
    •  Atriplex, Carrot, Cucumbers, onion, raspberries, squash, sunflower, Tomatoes                                 


General Information

Member of the  Nightshade family [ includes ~Egg Plant, Peppers,  Tomatoes] with the scientific name of Solanum tuberosum.

Susceptible to early and light blight - builds up in the soil and gets worse every year.  Once a member of the family is planted leave the ground fellow for three years afterwards. Thus the blight problem is negated.


Members of the nightshade family [ Peppers, potates and tomatoes] and walnuts do not like each other.  Produce an allelopathic chemical called juglone that inhabits the growth of all members of the nightshade family



Reference
Does Companion Planting Work?  Just Ask my Beans.
List of companion plants
Oignon

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