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How to Use Celery in Companion Planting

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Celery can be a challenge to grow in the home organic garden in certain areas of the country-it thrives in areas with cool, long growing seasons. If you choose to grow it, consider using it in the companion planting method to further increase your chances of a successful harvest. Celery will fit in well with a companion planting scheme. It needs rich, well-draining soils with a pH level between 6.0 and 6.5.

Things You Will Need

Celery
Garden gloves
Garden spade
Garden hose

Plant celery with flowers like cosmos, daisies, snapdragons, marigolds and nasturtium. These flowers will repel harmful pests and attract beneficial insects such as predatory wasps that feed off of pests and their larvae. These companions in the organic garden will also provide some shade to the soil to assist in moisture retention organically.

Nasturtium will also increase the overall health and taste when planted as a companion plant to celery.

Plant celery with onion, garlic, chives and leeks. These vegetables work very well in the organic garden to ward off pests such as aphids, slugs, carrot flies and cabbage worms that can quickly devastate a garden.

Plant it with green beans or peas. These vegetables make good companion plants for celery because of their ability to affix nitrogen into the soil organically.

Tomatoes and cabbage plants will provide it with the shade it needs to help retain moisture and prevent the growing stalks from drying out.

This garden vegeatble is a good companion plant for spinach because it provides shade for growing spinach to extend its usual growing season.

Plant celery away from corn and asters, they are not good companion plants due to the increase of yellow aster disease risks.