Vegetables: The Best Garden Neighbors

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Most often, gardeners and summer residents practice separate beds, that is, tomatoes on one bed, peas on the other, cucumbers on the third, and onions or herbs over there. But it has long been no secret to anyone that there is more benefit (and more economical use of the available area, which is important for owners of small plots) when planting some crops together on the same bed. But what and with what is the best to plant?

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Onions and carrots (by the way, not only carrots, but also beets, potatoes and so on go well with onions). Why is this neighborhood useful? For the most part, it is important for carrots, since onions help protect them from various pests, because it secretes allicin, which has an excellent fungicidal and insecticidal effect. This will help you avoid unnecessary additional use of chemicals in the garden.

In addition to onions, peas can be planted with carrots, they fill the soil with nitrogen. But it is better to move dill, parsley and celery away from carrots, they act depressingly on it and you will not get a good harvest in such a neighborhood.

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Basil and tomatoes. This combination is excellent not only for use in dishes, but also great for planting in a garden. First, the aroma that basil exudes scares the caterpillars away from the tomato bushes. Secondly, both of these plants need the same care: watering, loosening the soil, fertilizing, and so on. This means that you will need to make 2 times less effort and spend 2 times less time to care for these plants if you place them on the same bed. In addition, tomatoes grown next to basil are believed to be much more flavorful.

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Corn, pumpkin and peas. Another great combination. Corn gives support to the peas, which means you don't need to make or purchase support for the peas. Peas, in turn, saturate the soil with nitrogen. This will help to avoid additional application of nitrogen to the soil using chemical fertilizers. And the pumpkin "clogs" the weeds, not giving them room to grow. Thus, you will get a harvest of three different types of vegetables, save on support for peas, on the introduction of nitrogen into the soil. And best of all, you won't waste time fighting weeds.

In my garden, I replaced the pumpkin with cucumbers. I did this for several reasons: firstly, no one eats a pumpkin in our country, therefore, there is no need to grow it, and secondly, the southern sun burns cucumbers, and the lashes dry out quickly, and corn also provides the necessary shade in the midday heat, and is excellent support not only for peas, but also for cucumbers.

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Bell peppers, beans and eggplants. Also a very good neighborhood. Beans will help protect their neighbors from the Colorado potato beetle. Plus, peppers and eggplants need the same care and watering. It is not recommended to plant peppers and eggplants next to potatoes, tomatoes and cucumbers. Potatoes, eggplants and tomatoes have the same pest, and with such an abundance of "nutrition" it will multiply rapidly, and you will not have time to process plants from the Colorado potato beetle.

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Potatoes and radishes. Well, a little more from my experience. I planted potatoes and radishes together. First, potatoes are planted, then radish seeds are scattered over the surface in the same area, carefully covered with a thin layer of peat or compost on top (which was, I used it). Planting was carried out in wet soil, if not lucky, then it was watered from a hose with a sprinkler nozzle. Radish rises quickly and by the time of the first weeding or hilling of the potato (if you hilling it), the radish has already been harvested and eaten. By the way, what I liked - because of the sparse planting of the radish grows large. In addition, the size of the site allows you to plant several varieties, including previously untested novelties, without fear that the variety will not fit, but takes up space.