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Sophie King

Companion planting ideas – 8 plant combinations you need to try for an easy-to-care-for garden

Tomatoes on a vine growing next to marigold flowers as companion plants.

Companion planting is a hot topic throughout the year, and its arsenal of advantages speaks for itself. There are so many companion planting ideas for fruit and vegetables to try, and they all come with a shedload of benefits.

The most obvious reason to give companion planting a go is that when plants have the same growing requirements, planting them next to each other makes it easy to look after them both at the same time.

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