[Homestead] Gardening strategies, was Michihili (very long)
Lynn Wigglesworth
lynnw1366 at hotmail.com
Mon Apr 20 14:06:08 EDT 2009
>But most everything else
> is in very small beds all over the place.
>
James; do you bother at all with the idea of companion planting, or what
plants 'get along' with each other? Most of my beds this year will
chock-a-block full of different things, more or less 'companions' that get
along with or aid each other. The cucumbers are in with the pole beans, with
lettuce under them; I'll have a 3-sisters garden (all things I can leave
until frost...Indian corn, shell beans, and winter squash) with a lot of
bee-attracting herbs and flowers: dill and kale in with the potatoes; the
melons are going in with the corn (last time I did it, it proved difficult
to harvest the corn with vines everywhere, but sure saved space); and
carrots/radish/letuce in front of the peas. The onions, leeks, and garlic
are the only things in their own bed because I plant them close
together...no room for anything else. My neighbor (he of the perfectly
straight line, mostly bare soil garden) will be more aghast than ever at
this year's garden.
Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
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