Companion Planting with Pumpkins

Pumpkin not yet ready for harvest.


  •   Good Neighbours /  companions   
  • Helps
  • Pumpkin flower after pollination
    •  Beans, Corn, Sweet Corn 
  • Helped by: 
    • Buckwheat, Catnip, Radishes that trap flea Beetles, Tansy
  • Attracts
    • Ground Beetles, Spiders
  • Repels/ Distracts
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  • Bad / Not nice companions   
    • Potato

General Information
There is a method of companion planting that is called the three sisters.  This involves growing corn as a starter crop.  Then adding climbing beans and one member of the Curcurbita family.  Squash and pumpkins being one of the members.























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

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