Let's talk about an interesting companion plant combination that I had not heard a lot

about until I got this question from Cody.

Hello, this is Cody from Arizona, I'm in zone 9B, and I was curious about interplanting

asparagus and strawberries.

I didn't know pros, cons, what to do, what not to do, how to prepare the soil, and the

best sun, and weather exposure.

Thanks.

Anything will help.

So like I mentioned earlier this week, I will be planting my first asparagus bed this

year.

Jacques the garden.

Herman over here at Epic Gardening has planted his already, and I know a bunch of friends

around San Diego that have planted theirs.

So I have seen it grow quite a bit, and I've studied it quite a bit, and I had not heard

of this combination of asparagus and strawberries until recently, and then I did some reshures,

and I see it's sort of around in the homesteading and the permaculture world, and then I really

started to think about it, and I can't see a great reason to combine these two.

Now here's why.

First of all, strawberries or woodland plants, they sort of want an acidic soil.

They're more similar to the care needs of something like a blueberry, and then you take

a look at asparagus, and that is sort of an estuary or marshy-style plant, and it wants

a little bit more of an alkaline soil mix.

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