Top Companion Plants For Chamomile And Their Benefits

Heya, fellow Gardeners!

Do you want to make the most out of your pretty gardens? Do you want to grant the boon of healthy life to your fruits and veggies? Or, you simply want your garden to look fuller and happier?

If yes, then you’re just a few minutes away from the essential tips and a few steps away from the garden of your dreams!

The upcoming paras will tell you how to grow the flower that is loved by all and loves you back, that is, Chamomile. And how is it a boon not only for your sleep cycle but also for your garden!

Wait a minute, wait a minute! Quick fun fact about Chamomile. When you search for Chamomile meaning in the dictionary, it means "Earth Apple". The flower gets its name from its apple-like fragrance.

Now, let us move forward.

Chamomile in India

I hope you won’t mind if I talk about some stats, would you? Okay, so lemme spill. 

According to a research report of CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Chamomile grows in lump soil, having a pH of about 9. The most suitable regions where Chamomile in India grows are Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Punjab, and Rajasthan, as the soil here is well-drained and stays moist. Chamomile is generally cultivated as a winter crop. Also, 1000-1500 kg of flowers yield around 4 kg of Chamomile oil every year.

Benefits of Chamomile

Let us talk about the therapeutic effects of chamomile.

1. It helps with Anxiety.
2. Chamomile helps treat skin problems like eczema, sunburns, rashes, etc.
3. It helps with Insomnia. Having trouble sleeping, sip onto some chamomile tea.
4. Have high blood sugar? Know someone who has diabetes? Or both? Scroll down the page and you’ll find a checklist that will help you lower your blood sugar levels and cure diabetes.
5. Chamomile is anti-inflammatory and antibacterial. Due to these properties, it is seen that a Chamomile mouthwash is effective for reducing plaque and gingivitis.
6. Chamomile can help you with bowel inflammations. It reduces smooth muscle spasms as well.

Chamomile Tea

One of my favorite detox concoctions after a stressful day is Chamomile Tea. Generally, I don’t believe in sharing my recipes. But, I can cut surely cut slack for my lovely readers (xoxo)! Hop down on my green tea checklist

Steps To Brew The Perfect Chamomile Concoction

• Toss your saucepan out and heat some water on high heat.
• Fill your tea infuser with dried chamomile (you can also use store-bought Chamomile tea, I recommend 'Twinings Chamomile Tea').
• Once the water is boiled, switch off the heat.
• Hang your infuser into the pan and cover it with a lid. Wait for a minute.
• If you’ve got a sweet tooth, feel free to swirl a spoonful of honey into it.

Your Chamomile Tea is ready!

Benefits Of Chamomile Tea

• Sip onto a cup of chamomile and some dark chocolates to soothe your uterus. It reduces menstrual cramps.
• It also finds its utility in curing diabetes and lowering blood sugar levels.
• Chamomile targets the cancer cells and keeps them from developing in the first place. This can be taken as a prevention against cancer.
• It reduces inflammation.
• I recommend you to use Chamomile for skin. Its extract is beneficial for wound healing.

Best Time To Grow Chamomile

Although Chamomile is an extremely adaptable plant, it’s best to grow it in Spring Season. It is best grown in cool conditions and it scarcely needs water. It’s the best plant that can be grown even in a drought. It might need occasional watering in prolonged droughts. Remember to keep it in part shade. And if you can’t manage that, you needn’t worry. Your all-weather plant’s quick adapting capabilities will never disappoint you!

How To Grow Chamomile

Let us grow our yellow dotted buddies together! Aren’t you excited? 

Chamomile can grow from a seed or regenerate from a plant. So, you needn’t worry about its source as it can grow from anything!

We already know that Chamomile can grow in almost all conditions, required you sow it in the fall to get a healthy and blooming crop. Let us talk about growing from a seed. Let us do a checklist (yes, I’m obsessed).

• Prepare your seeds for sowing. Fill up a seed tray with the potting mix that has the consistency of your choice. Now, sprinkle the seeds onto it and tap them gently into the loose soil. Or water them with a light mist. Make sure your potting mix is well-drained.
• Once your seedlings are an inch tall, make sure to move them at least 4 to 5 inches apart. Else, if their roots grow, they wouldn’t want to be transplanted.
• When your seedlings grow enough, transfer them into your garden and prepare yourself for a pretty bloom in 6 weeks!

See, so easy! This can be the go-to plant for someone, anyone, who isn’t a gardener, or, forgets to water their plants (yes, I accept it, that someone is me).

Companion Planting

Okay, enough about Chamomile. Let’s get back to the original question, that is, Companion Planting. First I’ll go all scientific to give you an idea of it (and to sound like a professional, of course).

By definition, Companion Planting is a method that’s used to enhance the growth of the partner plant. It’s done for several benefits like calling pollinators, exchanging nutrients, enhancing flavor, pest control, etcetera-etcetera.

Let us date back to when it came into use. It is believed that Americans used this technique 10,000 years ago before the European invasion. The Chinese are also a name in this list.

The basic purpose is to use the features of one plant to help the other one grow.

Why Companion Planting?

Alright, alright. Companioning is beneficial and all. But, why should you spend your time and efforts on it? What good does it do to us?

Keep your calm peeps, lemme name a few, just for you!

• It saves that precious space of your small garden that would have otherwise been of no use, or, even worse, captured by weeds.
• It will keep your garden soil from draining along with the water or flying away with the windstorm. That is, no Soil Erosion! Yes, you can post that selfie with the hashtag #nature_love on your Instagram!
• Having several kinds of plants in your garden keeps it free from diseases and deficiencies. So, this is your first step to a healthy garden.

Companion Plants For Chamomile

             Here’s a list of farmer-handy plants that can grow beside Chamomile.

Brassicas

Anything belonging to the cabbage family is vulnerable to pests. Save your kales and cabbages from this agony by covering their scent with the strong essence of Chamomile and keep pests at bay!

Cucumber

Fellow Gardeners, are you worried too about your pale and shrunk cucumbers? I was too. But then, someone told me to grow them beside Chamomile. That someone is my angel ever since.

It attracts ladybugs that eat the pests sucking the fluids out of your cucumbers. Thank me later (wink)!

Basil

Idk how, but this flower is believed to increase the quantity of the oil that basil produces. So, if you want your basil to be not only flavorful but also loaded with it, try this hack.

Onion

Due to its fabulous scent, this flower attracts pollinators and bugs that eat pests. Also, when paired with onions, it’s believed to enhance its flavor. 

Fruit Trees

This might be new to you, but Chamomile is antibacterial and antifungal. Now, the ones concerned have already understood the pros of this company. It will keep fungal infections at bay. No more white-stained mangoes in your backyard!

I believe by now, that I won’t find my audience searching for chamomile tea on Supermarket shelves. Instead, I would love to be invited over for some tea and a fresh fruit salad from your gardens!

Until next time peeps. Toodles!