Hi Fern, all my companion-planting books are rather ambiguous about cukes & basil being together - sorry! However, I can tell you that I've planted cukes with a whiskey barrel full of sweet basil less than 2' away and the cukes ("Diva") produced like gangbusters all season and were completely trouble-free.

Cucumbers & tomatoes can live happily together, but if you plant too closely harvesting can be a real pita.

Thanks - I will be putting a regular cucumber "sweet slicer" in a 3ft raised bed with a early girl bush tomato, 2 garden salsa peppers, a basil plant, some miniature heads of lettuce and a marigold. I guess if I plant the basil as far from the cucumber - which I'm planning to train up a trellis they should be okay - right?

Fern

I think that'd be fine, and your tomato will love you for the basil!