Grow, Pick and Eat Together

In these posts I have talked about companion planting, planting plants near each other that help each other grow. Native Americans successfully planted corn, squash and beans together. In India at the Navdany farm we saw up 3 −17 plants together in one plot.

In my front yard I have planted tomatoes and basil together. Both plants need a lot of sun and water which this raised garden gets. Today I went out again to pick the bountiful basil and cherry tomatoes in this garden.

These companion plants and picking partners also make for good eating together. Fresh tomatoes and basil topped with some olive oil and salt are delicious.

Basil and tomatoes grow together and are complimentary in eating. They have a lot in common but are very diverse in other ways. Basil when it is picked grows back, again and again. Tomatoes do not. I found out that when you thickly plant a variety of tomatoes plants around a trellis the cherry tomatoes, the smallest ones, will dominate the early growing. Next year I will plant cherry tomatoes around one or two trellises , pear tomatoes for sauce around another trellis or two and regular tomatoes around one or two trellises.

A third plant in the front that thrives growing with tomatoes and basil is eggplant. The basil and tomatoes were in the salad at dinner tonight and the eggplant was in the Middle Eastern main dish and Baba ganoush, an Arab dish of eggplant (aubergine) mashed and mixed with various seasonings. Now the front yard has three companion plants to grow, pick and eat together.

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