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Re: Tomato/onion incompatibility?

Meconella@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 6/13/98 8:02:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> allan@crwys.demon.co.uk writes:
> 
> <<
>  We have planted out some rows of tomatoes which are growing as expected
>   except for three plants which have been planted in between some spring
>  onions, shortly to be cleared. These three plants are quite yellow and
>  not as tall as the others. >>
> 
> Hmmmm,  Interesting question.  I too have some tomatoes with scallions between
> them.  I planted them together to save space.  And those tomatoes are not
> doing that well.  I too have sprayed them with extra foliar nutrients,  and
> while that helped mine a little,  they are not doing as well as the tomatoes
> planted with the lettuce in between.  I thought that was because they were
> different varieties.  Maybe its just a coincidence.
> 
> Janet.

We all have heard of allopathy (or is it alleopathy?), of course, the
reverse of companion planting.  Onions are notorious for their
incompatibility with other plants.  I'd aviod mixing any alliums with
other plants.

Steve  (Maritime...)
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