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How to Use Carrots in Companion Planting

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Use carrots as a companion plant throughout your organic garden. They require a light soil, free of rocks or anything else that will interfere with their growth. They thrive in full sun but can tolerate short periods of light shade during the day. Carrots perform best in rich soil with a pH level between 5.8 and 6.8.

Things You Will Need

Carrot seed
Garden gloves
Garden spade
Garden hose

Plant carrots and onions as companions to confuse carrot flies. Chives, garlic and leeks will have the same effect.

Tomatoes grow better when planted with carrots, but once the tomato plant matures it stunts the growth of carrots.

Other beneficial companion paints are peas and beans because they fix nitrogen into the soil.

They benefit many other plants by attracting beneficial insects once they have flowered.

They benefit from many herbs such as wormwood, sage, borage, lovage and rosemary. The aromatic herbs confuse pests common to carrots. Oils produced from flax roots are also beneficial in protecting against pests. Companion herbs attract beneficial insects such as parasitic wasps, yellow jackets, lacewing and assassin bugs. These beneficial insects feed off of common garden pests.

Dill is not a good companion for it in the organic garden as it attracts too many pests. Parsnip and radish also should not be planted near them as they interfere with the growth and taste of this vegetable and attract root maggots.