Inter-planting vegetables usually causes something to suffer. Carrots do grow better with garlic and radishes but they grow very poorly with tomatoes. Seems tomatoes rob nutrients from the carrots. If you plant tomatoes with garlic, the garlic suffers.

Sun is one of the important ingredients to a successful vegetable garden but if half the yard is in shade and vegetables need sun you may consider container gardening. Vertical gardening let’s you stage many plants to take advantage of space. Tomato plants thrive in containers, but remember to help out with compost nourishment. Even in urban areas you can save kitchen and garden scraps in a compost bin.

You’ll find correlation between plants and insects. For instance, pyrethrum (a type of Chrysanthemum) in has been marketed in the West as a bug repellent since at least 1828, but the Chinese are thought to have used it for perhaps 2,000 years.