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Borage & Tomatoes

✓ Excellent Companions

✓ Why Borage and Tomatoes Work Well Together

✓Borage attracts pollinators to tomatoes
✓May deter tomato hornworm
✓Edible flowers and leaves

🔬 How It Works (Science)

  • 1.Star-shaped flowers highly attractive to bees
  • 2.Possible pest deterrent effect
  • 3.Habitat diversification

📋 Planting Tips

1Plant borage near tomatoes (it self-seeds)
2Borage can get large - give space
3Harvest young leaves for salads

📏 Recommended Spacing

Borage 2-3 feet from tomato plants

📚 Sources & Research

  • •Pollinator research
  • •Traditional companion planting

Other Tomatoes Companions

Basil✓ GoodCarrots✓ GoodMarigolds✓ GoodParsley✓ Good

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