Bed recipe · field-tested

Tomatoes + Marigold + Basil + Pak choi

Tomat + Tagetes + Basilika + Pak Choi

Grown for real in my garden in 2017 — first written up in the log.

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How the bed is laid out

Low, bushy tomato plants in rows, with marigold and basil tucked between the tomatoes.

A bed built around outdoor tomatoes: an early round of Asian leaves first, then bush tomatoes with their classic companions marigold and basil.

In this bed

Tomatoes Marigold Basil Pak choi

The season, month by month

	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep
Tomatoes sown indoors or direct	S			T			H
Marigold	S
Basil	S	S	T	T	T	H
Pak choi sown indoors or direct		S	T	H

Sow — indoors or direct, per row note Transplant Harvest Sowings before March aren't shown — check each crop page.

A friendly reminder: every garden plays by its own rules. Zones, soil, weather and a hundred small things decide what works — so this is how I did it and what worked for me, not a promise. Try, learn, adjust, try again.. that's half the fun anyway.

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