Hey there, hope you're having a great Friday so far. A few weeks ago or months ago, the time's

running together. Someone asked me, I think it was on Instagram, she had seen a picture maybe of

my companion planting, and she asked, how close can you plant companion plants together?

And it was a really hard question to answer. If you have been gardening for a while, you know that that's kind of a loaded question because

I hate to even say this, but the answer is it depends.

But as I thought about her question, I thought that's really a good question and one that

beginners should be asking because plant spacing is something that's important when you're

planning your garden. And important when you're planning your

garden. And so when you're throwing in companion planting, it's kind of hard to know how to know

how far to plant these plants apart from one another. You could go with a conservative approach

with a numerical formula. I've seen this online where you could look at the plant spacing

requirements of a particular crop like tomatoes, for example, and then you could look at the

plant spacing recommendations for the companion crop, and then you could take whatever those

plant spacing recommendations are and just plant the crops at that spacing.

So let's say tomatoes, maybe you find out that it's 30 inches

and then basil, you find out that it's 18 inches.

Well, those two aren't the same.

So some places will say that you can split the difference

and just plant them whatever 30 plus 18 divided by 2 is 24.

Maybe I did that math right.

Anyway, so you could do that like tomatoes and basil 24 inches apart.

Honestly, I think that that waste space, it would be a good place to start.

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