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  • From: Hélène Dessureault <interverbis@videotron.ca>
  • To: fuwafuwausagi@muchomail.com, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] companion planting for space
  • Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:29:43 -0400

For the last tree years, I have planted a squash or two with each apple tree every year, thereby saving a lot of space in the vegetable garden. It's an incentive to improve the soil around the trees as the squash requires fertile soil, and the quality of the squash vine indicates the quality of the soil around each particular tree, much like the type of weed growing will indicate the soil ph, sand or clay, etc.. My trees are beginning to be healthier and more vigorous in the process...l
Hélène, zone3-4
----- Original Message ----- From: "fuwa fuwa usagi" <fuwafuwausagi@muchomail.com>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 9:13 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] of raspberries and peas


Gang:

Well after 15 years of traveling out of sate each and every week, and 2.9 Million air mile slogged, the fluffy one is now home on a fairly regular basis. And those my eyes are bigger than my stomach in terms of what I would like to do, I am limited by my city lot size.

To that end I have started to get an interest in inter cropping fruit and vegetables. My first experiment has been planting snow peas (Super Sugar Snap for those who care on the North side of my everbearing raspberries (cut to the ground in spring) in a row oriented east to west. It seems to work fine. However I am worried about introducing disease etc to the soil and am wondering what people' thoughts son this are, and if you have particular combinations you have tried (maybe onions planted between strawberries?)

Once again I am looking for the things I would not want to mix because of disease potential and any possible synergistic effect si might get.

Comments appreciated.

tfb

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