A Beginners Guide to Companion Planting: Companion Gardening with Flowers, Herbs & Vegetables (Simple Living) by Jeffreys, Mel
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Fresh fruits and vegetables from the garden are a treat. Once you have tasted a truly fresh heirloom tomato, it is hard to go back and pick up the hybrid choices in the local supermarket. The trouble is that getting that tomato or that strawberry to grow isn’t as easy as we’d like it to be. Disease, pests, and other animals take their toll on the home grower’s garden. Plus, in a limited space, it’s difficult to grow all the vegetables you love if your idea of gardening is the traditional one or two rows per species of plant. There are solutions to these and other problems. One of them is companion planting. Companion planting involves strategic location of the veggies and fruit that you plant to maximize space available, deter or distract pests and to take advantage of the nutrients available in the soil where you live. While there are a few different types of strategies, there are no hard and fast rules for which strategy you should choose. Keep in mind the space you have available, the amount of time you have to put towards growing a successful garden and your favorite vegetables. Obviously, a successful crop of wax beans is great, unless you hate wax beans. We are going to look at the history of, reasons for, and the strategies of using polyculture, or more than one crop per row.
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56
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February 26th 2013
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English
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744 KB
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