Companion planting...any done this?

[Lulu]

I stopped planting the marigolds with tomatoes - I swear they were attracting the snails, you could see the silver bee line straight to them.

Ooh grow capsicum! I think they are really rewarding and they come in great colours - even chocolate brown (if you go Heritage seeds or from Diggers).

The patch always looks so bare when you first start off, so I've started putting in Sweet William here and there for colour until it all grows in.

[nic]

We companion plant Tomato with Basil. The basil just goes off, and the tomatoes, we got that many we had to give them away.

[Astrid]

We have Jackie French's book on Companion planting. Worth picking up and it does not cost much.

Marigolds are good for attracting bees, but not all plants require bees for pollination. Some plants just need to be wind pollinated, I think tomatoes just need the wind.