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Companion plants for Red cabbage
Brassica oleracea var. capitata f. rubravegetable
32 partners scored across pest control, nitrogen, root depth, shade and spacing.
Best partners
- Great pair
- Buchii Lavender attracts Hoverflies and Parasitic wasps, which prey on the Aphids and Caterpillars and more that attack Red cabbage
- Red cabbage draws Bees that improve pollination for both
- Red cabbage acts as living mulch, keeping soil moist and weeds down around Buchii Lavender
- Great pair
- round leaf lavender attracts Hoverflies and Parasitic wasps, which prey on the Aphids and Caterpillars and more that attack Red cabbage
- Red cabbage draws Bees that improve pollination for both
- Red cabbage acts as living mulch, keeping soil moist and weeds down around round leaf lavender
Planning a whole bed?
Build a season-long sowing and planting calendar around Red cabbage β no account needed.
Also works well
- Allard's Lavender
- Buckwheat
- Bugloss
- Chaytor's Lavender
- Christiana Lavender
- Clover
- Comfrey
- Common Vetch
- Fernleaf Lavender
- French lavender
- French Tarragon
- Hairy Vetch
- Moldavian dragonhead
- Oman Lavender
- Spike lavender
- Sweet Lavender
- Viper's Bugloss
- Arum Lily, Calla Lily
- Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Garden Heliotrope
- great masterwortπ±
- Marigold
- Oriental poppyπ±
- Red Clover
Keep apart
Fennel releases compounds that inhibit Red cabbage
a known bad match: Heavy-feeder competition and shared soil-disease pressure β cole brassicas and potatoes compete hard and amplify clubroot/blight risk.
