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Tomatoes

Tomatoes like Asparagus, onions, nasturtiums, marigolds, parsley, basil, and carrots. They don't like Kohlrabi, fennel, potatoes, broccoli, and apricot trees. Nettles are good also as the fruit from the tomatoes near nettles will keep longer with greater resistance to mould.

Reference: Basic Companion Planting for Australia and NZ by David Bigwood.

Jan Brown

By june smaller

i was told this hint years ago when i grew tomatoes in 20 ltr buckets in a glassed in area that the bees couldn't get in. it was to flick the the stem above the flowers at the middle of the day and it worked for me good luck june

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By Terry Neilson

Query. What can I plant to attract bees to my tomatoes. Very poor pollination this year with few bees and dead flowers. Only sheltered place I can plant (pots)lacks any other flowering plants

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