Tomato

Tomate · Tomate

Vegetable

🧩 Role in the garden

A plain neighbour: no special job.

Do not return Solanaceae to the same spot for 3–4 years. Same family:

☀❄ Grows in a different season: not at the same time in the same bed.

✗ Cornonce corn silks or sorghum heads dry, the fruitworm (= corn earworm) moves on to nearby tomatoes
✗ PotatoPotato shares late blight (same family)

⚠ Cabbage(brassicas: in trials tomato cut diamondback moth on cabbage, but shaded it — fewer, smaller heads)
⚠ Eggplant / auberginedon't cluster nightshades (shared blight & Colorado potato beetle)
⚠ Broccoli(brassicas: in trials tomato cut diamondback moth on cabbage, but shaded it — fewer, smaller heads)
⚠ Cauliflower(brassicas: in trials tomato cut diamondback moth on cabbage, but shaded it — fewer, smaller heads)
⚠ Sorghumonce corn silks or sorghum heads dry, the fruitworm (= corn earworm) moves on to nearby tomatoes

✿ Marigold (Tagetes)Grown densely for a season, French-marigold roots suppress root-knot nematodes; in greenhouses its scent keeps whiteflies off tomatoes Also deters beneficial insects; the "vs potato beetle" claim is unproven
✿ Calendula (pot marigold)Magnet for pollinators and aphid-eating hoverflies & parasitic wasps; works as an aphid trap Can attract slugs
✿ NasturtiumTrap 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
✿ BasilFits under tomatoes & peppers without competing; flowers attract bees
✿ ChivesSlim, shallow roots fit between other crops; flowers attract bees Perennial clump: put it where it can stay for years
✿ ParsleyFlowers attract hoverflies & parasitic wasps Shares the carrot fly with carrots