Nasturtium
Capuchina · Capucine
🧩 Role in the garden
- Family
- Tropaeolaceae
- Height
- low (< 40 cm)
- Shape
- sprawling
- Roots
- shallow
- Sun
- tolerates some shade
- Season
- warm season
- Grows in
- ☀ summer beds (warm season)
Jobs in the bed
- Trap cropPests prefer it to your crop. Plant it a little apart and let it take the damage.
- Covers the soilShades the soil, keeps moisture in and holds weeds back. Best on the edge of the bed.
Rotation
Do not return Tropaeolaceae to the same spot for 3–4 years.
✿ Benefit
Trap crop — draws aphids & caterpillars off the crop; trailing ground cover; edible
Plant slightly away from the main crop so pests move to it, not onto the crop
✓ Place near
- ✓ Tomato
- ✓ Bean (bush/pole)
- ✓ Cabbage
- ✓ Cucumber
- ✓ Squash / zucchini
- ✓ Pepper
- ✓ Radish
- ✓ Melon
- ✓ Broccoli
- ✓ Cauliflower
☀❄ Grows in a different season: not at the same time in the same bed.
✗ Keep apart
None listed.