companion planting

Here you go:

http://www.companionplanting.net/ListofCompanionPlants.html

But just because they get along, doesn't always mean they need/like the same soil conditions.

Here you go:

http://www.companionplanting.net/ListofCompanionPlants.html

But just because they get along, doesn't always mean they need/like the same soil conditions.

Thank you

I've attached a picture of the hole left by removing one of my sunken mint pots for repotting. The pot is about 18" from the centre of the nearest asparagus crown and as you can see the asparagus roots have gone around and beyond it!

I'm not at all sure about "companion" planting for asparagus (I think they like to take up all the space for themselves!) although I do grow quick, shallow rooted crops like lettuce at about the same distance away as the mint pot.

we're bunging a few pots of strawberries etc on the soil at the edges of our (2nd year) asparagus beds..

With asparagus you need to think more as what can you plant in proximity to it that will work well, rather than among or right next to it.

In my own garden, I allowed enough space then laid a buried block retaining wall to keep asparagus roots out of the rest of the garden. If left to themselves, the roots would travel a metre or more in every direction and I simply haven't enough space for such freedom. So they're contained within their area. On the other side of the wall I can safely plant whatever I want without interfering with their roots.

Last year I grew some lettuce (Lakeland) round the edges of my second year asparagus bed,had a good crop of lettuce and the asparagus seemed happy enough.
A small recompense for not being able to harvest some of those spears.