It's hard to believe, but just as you either feel safe in a neighborhood or are outraged at unsympathetic people, so do the vegetables in your garden. Since certain varieties can't stand each other, sometimes even hinder each other in growth, it is important to choose so-called good neighbors. You can find out below which partners are suitable for the sweet potato.

Sweet potatoes are often grown alone

Mixed culture or three-field economy?

When creating a vegetable garden, the first question that arises is: mixed cultivation or three-field cultivation? With the mixed culture, you literally plant the vegetables across the bed, so you don't pay attention to the special requirements of the individual varieties. The three-field economy, on the other hand, takes into account the different fertilizer requirements.

Advantages and disadvantages of mixed culture

+ beautiful optics

  • very complex
  • bad neighbors may clash

Advantages and disadvantages of the three-field economy

+ easy maintenance
+ targeted fertilizer application
+ good growth of plants

  • Fewer plant combinations possible

The sweet potato is a heavy feeder

With three-field farming, you divide your garden into three areas. Make this classification dependent on the fertilizer requirements of the individual plants. Plant only plants with comparable requirements together in a bed. They distinguish:

  • Heavy Consumer (high demand)
  • Medium consumer (medium requirement)
  • Weak Consumer (low demand)

Fertilize the beds alternately every year

  • stable dung
  • humus and organic fertilizer
  • just humus

The sweet potato is one of the heavy feeders, so it needs heavy fertilization.

Good neighbors of the sweet potato

Heavy feeders like the sweet potato harmonize particularly well with other summer flowers. Suitable vegetables are

  • broad beans
  • chamomile
  • Nasturtium
  • Caraway seed
  • Corn
  • chard
  • horseradish
  • Kohlrabi
  • peppermint
  • parsnip
  • spinach
  • tagetes
  • and salad

All-rounder nasturtium

The nasturtium can actually always adorn itself with the title of a good neighbor. The plant harmonises with almost every type of vegetable. In addition, their colorful flowers bring colorful accents to the bed. The edible flowers are delicious too.

Bad neighbors of the sweet potato

The following vegetables inhibit the growth of sweet potatoes:

  • Beetroot
  • peas
  • pumpkin
  • Physalis
  • celery
  • tomatoes
  • sunflowers
  • eggplants
  • paprika
  • Tobinambur

Category:

Vegetable garden