Companion plants for New Zealand Spinach
Tetragonia tetragonoidesvegetable
28 partners scored across pest control, nitrogen, root depth, shade and spacing.
Best partners
- Great pair
- round leaf lavender attracts Hoverflies and Parasitic wasps, which prey on the Aphids that attack New Zealand Spinach
- round leaf lavender roots deep while New Zealand Spinach feeds near the surface β no competition
- New Zealand Spinach acts as living mulch, keeping soil moist and weeds down around round leaf lavender
- Great pair
- Viper's Bugloss attracts Hoverflies and Lacewings and more, which prey on the Aphids that attack New Zealand Spinach
- Viper's Bugloss roots deep while New Zealand Spinach feeds near the surface β no competition
- New Zealand Spinach acts as living mulch, keeping soil moist and weeds down around Viper's Bugloss
Planning a whole bed?
Build a season-long sowing and planting calendar around New Zealand Spinach β no account needed.
Also works well
- Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Soybean
- Agastache
- Allard's Lavender
- Bishop's Flower
- Black radish
- Black-eyed Susan
- Buchii Lavender
- Canary Island lavender
- Chaytor's Lavender
- Cuban Oregano
- Fernleaf Lavender
- French lavender
- Ornamental Allium
- Spanish lavender
- Spike lavender
- Turkish rocket
- Wild Bergamot
- woolly lavender
- Woolly Lavender
- African Marigold
- Alsike Clover
- Baby's Breath
- Berseem Clover
Keep apart
Fennel releases compounds that inhibit New Zealand Spinach
White Sage releases compounds that inhibit New Zealand Spinach
