Companion Planting for Dahlias

MissyWeitzel · 2025-01-30T01:49:48+00:00

I would love to hear a little about how and what you purposefully companion plant with your dahlias. I grow a whole lot of other things in the vicinity of my...

calico20hill

Juliarugula I totally love the idea of scented leaf geraniums at the ends of the rows! I'm going t0 go order mine right now!

SteveM

Every year I have a lot of extra dahlia tubers so I plant some in my rows of tomatoes. Since dahlia tubers are a preferred food of pocket gophers, at the end of the season the dahlias are gone but the tomato plants are still standing. When I don't use dahlias as distractions the tomato plants don't survive the gopher's buffet parties.

calico20hill

SteveM Clever, Steve! What ever it takes! We are doing 2 more raised beds for veggies this year...they will have rat wire on the bottom. So far that has worked for us. There is a large population of moles or gophers that push up mounds wherever it gets wet, but so far have not seen plant damage so ithink it is moles. I can't dig in this clay but those little guys just zip right through it!

Krista

Has anyone here grown chickpeas? I’m wondering if they would be pretty as bouquet filler while being a late-summer sown, low-growing companion plant in a bed at the feet of dahlia plants?

Dahlia53

Krista I love having cilantro in my dahlia beds. The shade of the dahlias keeps it tasting good even when it lengthens to bolt, and the flowers attract good pollinators. Parsley does well too if you have the space. I haven't tried to plant many flowering things but whatever seeds in, if I have the room, I keep.

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