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Re: how to arrange your plants

Westaway, Shawn wrote:
>
> Hi Francine, you wrote:
>
> >I already know, having found out the hard way, not to plant things like
> >onions or garlic with your tomatoes because they will flavor them
> >unpleasantly.
>
> Anybody else planted garlic or green onions with their tomatoes? I
> planted garlic with and among my tomatoes last year, and I had the
> most delicious tomatoes - no hint of any unpleasant garlicky flavor.
> I have one source (a web site source) that says onions are not good
> with tomatoes, but another source (might be Carrots Love Tomatoes book
> or another garden book/mag article) says they go fine. Nowhere can
> I find garlic as a bad companion plant for tomatoes...Matter of fact
> I had garlic among my eggplant last year and didn't notice any
> unpleasant flavor either - the eggplant was just as mild and buttery
> as you could want..
> Just my 2 cents.
> Shawn

I could be in trouble then. I planting onions close to bush beans.
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