How Do You Have A Healthy Garden?
With interest rising in growing your own vegetables, now is a good time to investigate a method of organic gardening known as companion planting. Simply put, companion planting is the growing of different types of plants together so that they can mutually benefit each other or, conversely, avoiding growing together plants that debilitate each other. For instance, in 1951 German researchers discovered that cabbage grown alongside celery suffered from fewer micro-organisms than when it was grown alone. It has also been shown scientifically that some plants such as the legumes benefit following crops by enriching the soil. And observation has shown that bees are attracted by plants such as lavender, basil and borage. But, don’t expect too much in the way of scientific proof that companion planting works. Most of the knowledge in this area has come from people observing things. Noticing, for example, that tomatoes benefit from having asparagus, onions, nasturtiums, chives, marigolds, parsl
