Companion plants for Cauliflower
Brassica oleracea var. botrytisvegetable
36 partners scored across pest control, nitrogen, root depth, shade and spacing.
Best partners
- Excellent pair
- Chaytor's Lavender attracts Parasitic wasps and Hoverflies, which prey on the Caterpillars and Aphids and more that attack Cauliflower
- Cauliflower draws Bees and Bumblebees that improve pollination for both
- Great pair
- Sainfoin attracts Parasitic wasps and Ladybugs and more, which prey on the Caterpillars and Aphids and more that attack Cauliflower
- Sainfoin fixes nitrogen in the soil that Cauliflower feeds on
- Cauliflower draws Bees and Bumblebees and more that improve pollination for both
- Great pair
Planning a whole bed?
Build a season-long sowing and planting calendar around Cauliflower β no account needed.
Also works well
- Allard's Lavender
- Buchii Lavender
- Bugloss
- Christiana Lavender
- Clover
- Common bean
- Fernleaf Lavender
- French lavender
- Garlic
- Maypop
- Moldavian dragonhead
- round leaf lavender
- Spanish lavender
- Spike lavender
- Winged bean
- Woolly Lavender
- Woolly Lavender
- Amistad
- Anise
- Autumn Sage
- Bee Balm
- Berggarten Sage
- Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Black & Blue
Keep apart
Fennel releases compounds that inhibit Cauliflower
a known bad match: Heavy-feeder competition and shared soil-disease pressure β cole brassicas and potatoes compete hard and amplify clubroot/blight risk.
