8 Vegetables and Fruits You Never Grow Near Potatoes

Potato is an easy-to-grow crop, but to harvest a high yield, this tuber also requires some gardener experience. Apart from taking notes of caring, soil, water…, there are other problems you should avoid. That are incompatible plants! They compete, spread easily pests and diseases, and stunt the growth of potatoes. So, if you are a beginner in gardening, you should save these notes for your potato garden.

#1 Squash

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Squash belongs to the cucurbit family. For the happy growth of potatoes, you shouldn’t grow squash near them as this veggie can make your potatoes more susceptible to blight

#2 Carrots

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When harvesting potatoes, this can disrupt, and even damage the carrot crop nearby. Also, they don’t have the same environmental needs. Carrots can cope with far drier conditions than potatoes and may stunt the growth of potato tubers

#3 Tomatoes

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Potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, and aubergines belong to a part of the same plant family. So, when growing them together, harmful pests and diseases spread easily between them

#4 Cucumbers

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If you grow potatoes near cucumbers, your potatoes get susceptible to blight easier.

#5 Asparagus

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Asparagus is a perennial veggie that has an extensive root formation, so it is easy to be damaged by the earth movement required in potato growing and harvesting. It also will compete with the potatoes and stunt their development.

#6 Fennel

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Fennel excretes the chemicals that affect other plants, it can stunt the growth of a wide range of commonly cultivated crops, including potatoes.

#7 Sunflowers

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Like fennel, sunflowers also excrete chemicals that inhibit seed germination and stunt the growth of other crops grown nearby. So, when growing it near potatoes may result in smaller and misshapen potato tubers.

#8 Raspberries

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Raspberries can increase the chances of a problem with blight or other potato diseases, so you should grow this berry well away from your potato plants.