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Consider this your cucumber companion planting guide—plus, learn about the three plants you should never put near cucumbers if you want a healthy crop.
Cucurbits (squash, pumpkins, cucumbers), asparagus: Leafhoppers, Japanese beetles, aphids, asparagus beetle: Is a trap crop almost identical to geraniums in function Phacelia: Phacelia tanacetifolia: Plants which are prone to aphids, especially lettuce, tomato, rose: hoverfly: This plant attracts hoverflies and is good around plants which are ...
Cucumis – cucumber (C. sativus); various melons and vines. Momordica – bitter melon. Luffa – commonly called 'luffa' or ‘luffa squash'; sometimes spelled loofah. Young fruits may be cooked; when fully ripened, they become fibrous and unpalatable, thus becoming the source of the loofah scrubbing sponge.
In Indigenous American companion planting, maize (Zea mays), beans (wild beans and vetches [3] spp.), and squash (Cucurbita pepo) are planted close together. The maize and beans are often planted together in mounds formed by hilling soil around the base of the plants each year; squash is typically planted between the mounds. [4]
Cucurbits, including cucumbers, melons, and squash. Root crops, including carrots, turnips, and beets. ... Plants that are native to cold areas, like boneset and milkweed, germinate best when ...
The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the family Cucurbitaceae that bears cylindrical to spherical fruits, which are used as culinary vegetables. [1] Considered an annual plant, [ 2 ] there are three main types of cucumber—slicing, pickling , and seedless —within which several cultivars have been created.
Cucurbita pepo is a cultivated plant of the genus Cucurbita. It yields varieties of winter squash and pumpkin, but the most widespread varieties belong to the subspecies Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo, called summer squash. [3] It has been domesticated in the Americas for thousands of years. [4]
Summer squash, shrubby plant, with yellow or golden fruit and verrucose rind, similar to var. torticollia but a stem end that narrows, [69] ex: Straightneck squash [8] [70] [71] Vegetable marrow C. pepo var. fastigata