2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
How important it is to have good neighbors. It is pleasant to exchange a kind word with them, having encountered in the morning in the elevator; call or come to help at an unfavorable moment; give them small children for an hour, when they urgently need to go on urgent matters, and grandparents are at the dacha, the husband is on a business trip … Sometimes people refuse to buy a dacha they like in all respects, if the neighbors do not like it. A good neighbor is a great success
Mixed landings
For greens, vegetables and fruits, as well as for people, neighbors are an important condition for a prosperous life and successful development. A friendly plant will help growth and development, a hostile plant will inhibit growth and attract pests and diseases to help itself.
Today, when human immunity is greatly weakened by an unfavorable ecology and reacts to the most familiar smells and foods with allergies, from which you will not die, but life is not a joy, many gardeners refuse to stuff their pets with pesticides and mineral fertilizers. They are helped by the natural mutual assistance of plants, created by nature itself. We are talking about mixed or combined planting of vegetable crops.
In Russia, this method is just beginning its first steps, but in Western Europe and Asia it has been known for a long time. For the American Indians, long before Columbus discovered them, pumpkin, corn, and beans were planted together. In such a family, everyone made their own contribution to the common cause of development and growth: the beans enriched the soil with nitrogen, the pumpkin shaded the soil with large leaves from the sun's rays and oppressed the weeds, and the corn with its foliage protected the pumpkin from overheating.
The advantages of mixed plantings
* Rational use of the area of the garden, especially when the plot is small. By planting vegetables of different ripening time side by side, higher yields are harvested from a unit of area.
* With a thoughtful placement of mixed plantings on your table, fresh vegetables will not be transferred throughout the summer season.
* The alternation of types of vegetables in one bed will not allow the soil to be depleted by any nutrient and accumulate certain pests and pathogens. Plants will take care of their own well-being, as they do in the wild.
* Different types of plants, beneficially affecting each other, improve not only the growth of plants, but also make their fruits tastier and more nutritious. It is important to choose the right matching plants, one of which will be the main one, and the second - accompanying, companion, the first.
In order for the garden to become a single organism, it is necessary to plant more different types of plants in it, which are well combined with each other. Even weeds, combined with vegetable and fruit plantings, will play a positive role in this community. When creating a living community, it is necessary to take care not only of food for people, but also of beneficial insects, small animals that help maintain the necessary balance. For example, to attract earthworms into the compost, which contribute to the processing of herbs, you should add chicory roots, green onion leaves, valerian.
Some examples of good neighbors:
* Cabbage - Hyssop, borage (borage), onions, mint, dill, sage.
* Potatoes - Marigolds, horseradish, savory.
* Strawberries - Borage (cucumber herb), onions, parsley, garlic, sage.
* Carrots - Garlic, sage, chives.
* Cucumbers - Borage (borage), chamomile, dill, garlic.
* Pepper - Basil.
* Radish - Chervil ordinary or openwork (Kupyr butenelist), nasturtium.
* Roses - Marigolds, parsley, garlic, chives.
* Beets - Onions, garlic.
* Tomatoes - Basil, marigolds, borage (borage), nettle, mint, parsley, savory, garlic, sage, chives.
* Fruit trees - Mustard, dandelion.
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