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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

> 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