Companion plants for Red Leaf Lettuce
Lactuca sativa (Red Leaf)vegetable
36 partners scored across pest control, nitrogen, root depth, shade and spacing.
Best partners
- Great pair
- Wild indigo fixes nitrogen in the soil that Red Leaf Lettuce feeds on
- Wild indigo roots deep while Red Leaf Lettuce feeds near the surface β no competition
- Red Leaf Lettuce acts as living mulch, keeping soil moist and weeds down around Wild indigo
- Great pair
- Winged bean fixes nitrogen in the soil that Red Leaf Lettuce feeds on
- Winged bean roots deep while Red Leaf Lettuce feeds near the surface β no competition
- Red Leaf Lettuce acts as living mulch, keeping soil moist and weeds down around Winged bean
Planning a whole bed?
Build a season-long sowing and planting calendar around Red Leaf Lettuce β no account needed.
Also works well
- Bird of Paradise
- Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Cassava
- Chinese silver grass
- Common Mullein
- Culver's root
- Eryngo, Sea Holly
- Maypop
- Purple loosestrife
- Red Clover
- Rodgersia
- Soybean
- White Clover
- Agastache
- Allard's Lavender
- Amistad
- Andean Lupin
- Bishop's Flower
- Black & Blue
- Bog Sage
- Broad Bean
- Buchii Lavender
- Canary Island lavender
- Chaytor's Lavender
Keep apart
Fennel releases compounds that inhibit Red Leaf Lettuce
White Sage releases compounds that inhibit Red Leaf Lettuce
