Companion plants for Wintercress
Barbarea vulgarisherb
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 Flea beetles and Aphids and more that attack Wintercress
- Wintercress draws Bees and Butterflies that improve pollination for both
- Great pair
- Sainfoin attracts Ground beetles and Parasitic wasps and more, which prey on the Flea beetles and Aphids and more that attack Wintercress
- Sainfoin fixes nitrogen in the soil that Wintercress feeds on
- Wintercress draws Bees and Butterflies and more that improve pollination for both
- Great pair
Planning a whole bed?
Build a season-long sowing and planting calendar around Wintercress β no account needed.
Also works well
- Allard's Lavender
- Buchii Lavender
- Bugloss
- Christiana Lavender
- Clover
- Fernleaf Lavender
- French lavender
- Garlic
- Maypop
- Moldavian dragonhead
- Painted Lady Runner Bean
- round leaf lavender
- Runner Bean
- Runner Bean Sunset
- Spanish lavender
- Spike lavender
- Winged bean
- Woolly Lavender
- Woolly Lavender
- Amistad
- Anise
- Autumn Sage
- Bee Balm
- Berggarten Sage
Keep apart
Fennel releases compounds that inhibit Wintercress
White Sage releases compounds that inhibit Wintercress
