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Cucumbers & Radishes

✓ Excellent Companions

✓ Why Cucumbers and Radishes Work Well Together

✓Radishes documented to repel cucumber beetles
✓Radishes harvest before cucumbers need space
✓May act as trap crop

🔬 How It Works (Science)

  • 1.Compounds in radish roots/leaves deter beetles
  • 2.Trap cropping potential concentrates pests
  • 3.Early season space utilization

📋 Planting Tips

1Sow radishes when transplanting cucumbers
2Plant radishes around cucumber hills
3Remove radishes before vines spread

📏 Recommended Spacing

Radishes 6-12" from cucumber transplants, in a ring

📚 Sources & Research

  • •Cucumber beetle management research
  • •IPM studies

Other Cucumbers Companions

Dill✓ GoodSunflowers✓ GoodPotatoes✕ Avoid

Other Radishes Companions

Spinach✓ GoodLettuce✓ Good

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