Favorite Rhubarb Companion Plants

Rhubarb is a very easy plant to grow, and very tolerant of lots of types of soil and climates. It’s a favorite because this fantastic plant lasts up to ten years, producing year after year of edible thick red stalks and those stalks make fantastic… rhubarb pie! Growing rhubarb can become more successful by planting it with other plants. Choosing the best rhubarb companion plants is a strategic choice, and it’s smart to do especially in smaller spaces or containers.

Rhubarb has some great qualities that help other plants in a vegetable garden, making it an excellent companion plant to most types of vegetables in your garden. And these combinations can also be used for beautiful edible landscaping!

Rhubarb is easy to care for, high-yield and looks great.

FAVORITE RHUBARB COMPANION PLANTS!

Lots of foods can benefit from growing as companion plants to rhubarb. Plant your small food garden strategically, with companion planting, according to: sun, soil/nutrients and pests. Here are my favorite companion plants for growing rhubarb!

Favorite Rhubarb Companion Plant for... Landscaping?

NASTURTIUMS!

Rhubarbs are a perennial that comes back year after year, and so do nasturtiums!

Though rhubarb can take a long time to be ready to harvest, it is a beautiful plant. Why not pair this fantastic looking plant with nasturtium flowers and use it in your landscaping! Nasturtiums are bright, gorgeous flowering plants that last many years.

They look fantastic paired with rhubarb plants in a garden, along a walkway, as a border. Or place one or two of each in a large patio container and it will be a bright beautiful focal point!

Nasturtiums are super easy to grow, drought tolerant, very hardy and they attract important pollinators like bees into your garden. They also help repel destructive pests like aphids and cabbage moths, which means your nearby vegetables benefit. And as an added bonus, the leaves of your nasturtium plants are known to have some health benefits as well.

Favorite "FOOD" Companion Plant for Rhubarb

STRAWBERRIES!

3 reasons why strawberries are a great companion plant to rhubarb:

Strawberries grow much closer to the ground than most rhubarb varieties. When planted strategically near to rhubarb, they benefit from the filtered sun.

Soil/nutrients: Strawberry plants are full of fast growing leaves, and their dead leaves and rotting berries add needed nutrients to the soil, feeding the rhubarb plants.