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I'm looking for suggestions for vegetables to plant next to a patch of chamomile. Any ideas?
 
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Perennial "Roman Chamomile" (Chamaemelum nobile) gets along well with (and can even hold its' own with) different mints (including lemon balm, bee balm, hyssop, germander, horehound) and I let the annual "German Chamomile" (Matricaria recutita) type self-seed around my beds along with buckwheat, daikon radish, and red russian kale.
 
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Colin McGee wrote:I'm looking for suggestions for vegetables to plant next to a patch of chamomile. Any ideas?


Potatoes and onions, together. The chamomile is a good smelly herb, the potatoes create a canopy, and the onions emerge from the canopy, as well as being stinky.
 
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I would plant the plants from the cabbage family, like cabbage, kale, broccoli, etc.

 
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