Rosemary Companion Planting
(tips on growing rosemarys in your garden)
Rosemary is a wonderful aromatic and culinary herb that has a quite distinctive flavor. When growing your own rosemary, you might want to consider companion planting and which other herbs, vegetables and flowers you plant nearby. This article is in itself a companion for our guide for companion planting with herbs. Our Herb Garden has done the research for you and put together the opinions of a variety of gardening experts in this rosemary companion planting guide.
As more and more garderners are growing rosemary, they are becoming more interesting in learning more uses for their plants. By companion planting, you can use your rosemary plants to help other plants in your garden as well as attract beneficial insects.
Rosemary Companion Plants.
Planting rosemary nearby will help your beans, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, hot peppers and sage plants to flourish. Broccoli is perhaps the best companion plant for rosemary as both plants benefit from being planted together.
Planting carrots, potatoes and pumpkins near rosemary is not advised as they make for poor companions.
Rosemary & Carrots.
We found a difference of opinion when it came to planting carrots with rosemary. One resource said to place rosemary cuttings by the crowns of the carrots to repel carrot flies, which could be why it has ended up identified in our sources as both a good and bad companion for rosemary. Our suggestion is to plant the two as if they were bad companions and use rosemary cuttings for carrot fly control.
Rosemary & Insect Control.
Rosemary is believed to repel harmful insects including bean beetle, cabbage fly, cabbage moth and carrot fly.
Additional Rosemary Information
(Rosemarinus officinalis, Linn.)
To learn more about growing rosemary be sure to check out our rosemary fact sheet.
Our history of rosemary page discusses both historical and modern uses for rosemary.