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| Vegetables Good Neighbors are: Asparagus planted next to parsley and tomatoes. Beans, carrots, leeks, peas, strawberries, turnips,and parsley make a neighborly community! BUT don't socialize with onions and garlic. The cabbage family loves marigolds, and the herbs, rosemary, mint, thyme, and camomile. BUT actively dislikes rue. Apart from being disliked by cabbage, rue planted near sage is positively poisonous. Bury a stick of rhubarb here and there while planting cabbages to prevent against clubroot. Carrots like to cuddle with beans, leeks, lettuce, onions, garlic, turnips and parsley. Try interplanting with dill for a heavenly scented carrot. Leeks find it helpful to be planted near beans, carrots, peas, and Turnips. Lettuce and Strawberries are a good combination and lettuce also prefers carrots. Strawberries actively dislike the company of gladioli and will suffer even if planted 30' away. Tomatoes can be nestled amongst the asparagus, parsley and of course be accentuated by marigolds. Potatoes like the company of beans, strawberries and marigolds. Turnips on the other hand, really like socializing with beans, carrots, leeks and parsley. |
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| "Well, what did I tell you! Blimey!! Some people just don't get it" (over the loss of HIS carrot patch to deer!) Puppet 1989 |
| Roses, "ah, but for the love of roses".......Parsley is particularly valuable for planting grown amongst roses, where it increases their scent. Chives are also a welcome addition since they repel greenfly. However, it is Garlic that is the best preventive towards greenfly. Just cut the blossoms off so that the scent of the roses can be appreciated. Garlic is indeed a systemic instecticide to end all others. Ash trees, on the other hand, are poisonous to roses. sweet peas and a host of other plants. AND, ash trees should never be planted in or near a garden area, as they take all the good out of the soil for many yards around it. More on trees in coming articles on these pages. Deer dislike the thorny attributes of the rose. The rugosa Alba will grow to 7' high and in time make a dense hedge row. But I do recall the stag in Lady of The Lake: 'With one brave bound the copse he cleared' Banana skins are a real treat for Roses. They rot quickly, provide a considerable quantity of calcium, magnesium, sulphur, phosphates, sodium and silica. We save all the skins, and cut them up in tiny pieces to dry on a drying rack. |
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| The Farm Garden in early Spring. Remember that all flowers last longer cut if Foxgloves are incorporated into the arrangement. For Delphiums and Larkspur add sugar to the water, for Daffadils and Narcissus add charcoal. Daffadils should really be used by themselves as they excrete a substance poisonous to other flowers. If you insist on using them in a mixed bouquet, be sure to soak them in separate water for an hour and then rinse again. Topmost buds should be nipped from delphiums, gladioli and snapdragons. |
| Egg Shells I wash, dry and save, In early spring I crush them and put a layer of eggshells mixed with sharp grit around the crowns of hostas and other perennials to help deter slugs. |
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