Carum carvi
Caraway
Common names: Wild Caraway, True Caraway
Photo: Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public Domain · Source
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Description
Caraway provides the spicy seeds used in bread, cabbage dishes, and cheese, and its aroma makes heavy foods more palatable. The biennial plant forms a rosette of leaves in its first year and blooms only in the second summer, before the seeds mature.
Care instructions
Sow caraway in spring or late summer in a sunny, relatively dry spot. Keep the bed weed-free in the first year and wait until the second summer. Harvest the seed heads in July or August, once they turn brown, and dry them upside down.
Soil & site
Soil pH
Soil type
loamy, humus-rich, moist, nutrient-rich
Feeding
Medium feeder
Companion planting
Good neighbors
amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae)
Umbellifers and alliums confuse each other's pests (carrot fly, onion fly).
For example GarlicOnionLeekChivesDaffodilRocambole and 12 more species in the catalogue
Source: classic companion planting (DACH-Gartenpraxis)
daisy family (Asteraceae)
Calendula and Tagetes next to carrots keep the carrot fly away with their scent.
For example Tagetes patulaCalendulaSunflowerCommon coneflowerFall AsterIceberg lettuce and 56 more species in the catalogue
Source: classic companion planting (DACH-Gartenpraxis)
cabbage family (Brassicaceae)
You can pair celery and dill with all Brassicaceae because they repel the cabbage whitefly with their scent, a proven companion.
For example White cabbageKohlrabiRadishKalebroccolicauliflower and 34 more species in the catalogue
Source: Bio-Gärtnerei Mixed-culture Practice
legume family (Fabaceae)
Peas and beans provide carrot and celery with nitrogen and grow as shallow-rooted plants without competition next to each other.
For example Bush beanPole beanBroad beanMarker peaSugar peaRed bean and 30 more species in the catalogue
Source: classic companion planting (DACH-Gartenpraxis)
Rather not
Companion planting is partly traditional gardening lore. Where the reason is known, it is given.
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