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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Re: tomato training and sunflowers
  • Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 07:07:46 -0400

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 06:18:05 -0400, you wrote:


>
>Jean brings up an excellent point. I know
>tomatoes and black walnut trees do not mix-it
>seems tomatoes are one of the most sensitive
>veggie crops to jugalone.
>

This got me curious so I Googled and found:

http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/envirohort/factsheets2/landsnurs/apr94pr1.html

It mentions that sunflowers 'suppress weeds', but it's kind
of vague about them - doesn't exactly specify that they
contain any juglones. But it looks like they contain
*something* that inhibits other plants - I've noticed the
bare ground under bird feeders too.

I also found this - off the subject, really, but very
interesting, I thought - how some Indian tribes planted the
'Three Sisters' with sunflowers along the north side of the
garden, so they wouldn't shade the other plants, as well as
companion planting info.

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/complant.html

Pat
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