Showing posts with label Companion planting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Companion planting. Show all posts

Monday 1 August 2016

Грядка компьютерщика.

Грядка компьютерщика: реализация - Садовое обозрение


На даче разбиваем грядку спецназначения. Все овощи и травы помогут справиться с проблемами, сопровождающими человека часами проводящего за компьютером.
Выбираем солнечное теплое место в саду. Грядку окантовываем деревянным бордюром. В центре устанавливаем каркас мини-грядки с более высоким бордюром.
Растения для спецгрядки: базилик фиолетовый, фасоль кустовая, брокколи, кабачки, катран (аналог хрена), капуста листовая, кукуруза, морковь, огурцы, редька, петрушка, укроп.
На рисунке это выглядит так:
1 – тмин +редька
2 – базилик (поиграем цветами и размером листвы)
3 – укроп (подсеваем каждые 20 дней)
4 – морковь
5 – петрушка
6 – кукуруза (сейчас много сортов невысоких, с отличными вкусовыми качествами зерна)
7 – огурцы (хорошо бы пучкового типа)
8 – фасоль кустовая (тоже можно поиграть цветом лопаток)
9 – кабачки или цуккини
10 – брокколи + листовая капуста
Базилик, брокколи, капусту листовую и кукурузу выращиваем рассадой. Катран – очень красивый в пору цветения многолетник, поэтому его также лучше вырастить рассадой и высадить на постоянное место. Кукуруза выполнит функции опоры для огурцов.
Конечно, на одной грядке не поместить все овощные и зеленные культуры, которые помогают нам преодолевать последствия напряденной работы за компьютером. Поэтому окиньте взглядом свой сад и огород, что-то там уже растет, а что-то обязательно нужно посадить в новом сезоне.

Monday 4 May 2015

A bank holiday on my allotment. Companion planting.

Companion Planting!
Asparagus-Kale.
Asparagus - Do not harvest for the first two years after planting.
This is our second year. We are patient and we will have it on next year!
Allow the foliage of your asparagus plants to yellow in autumn before cutting it down to soil level for the winter.

Companion planting - Asparagus: Tomatoes are a friend of asparagus. They help to protect asparagus from asparagus beetles by releasing solanine and attracting natural predators of the asparagus beetle. A chemical derived from asparagus juice has been found effective on tomato plants as a nematode killer,, including the root-knot sting, stubby root and meadow varieties.
Friends: Aster family flowers, dill ,coriander, carrots, tomatoes, parsley, basil, comfrey and marigolds.
Avoid: Onions, garlic and potatoes.

The Brassica plant family - Kale companions are beets, cabbage, celery, cucumbers, dill, marigolds, onions, nasturtiums and spinach.
Keep kale away from grapes, beans, strawberries, tomatoes and rue.


Chard_Rhubarb.
Companions Chard: Bean, cabbage family, tomato, onion and roses.
Don't overlook chard's value as an ornamental plant in flower beds or wherever you have room for it.
Don't grow chard near cucurbits, melons, corn or herbs.

Rhubarb - A good companion to all brassicas.
Try planting cabbage and broccoli plants your rhubarb patch watch them thrive.
Rhubarb protects beans against black fly.
Some other interesting companions for rhubarb are the beautiful columbine flowers, garlic, onion and roses!
It helps deter red spider mites from the columbines.
A spray made from boiled rhubarb leaves, which contain the poison oxalic acid may be used to prevent blackspot on roses and as an aphicide.


Comfrey-Thyme.
Thyme: Deters cabbage worms.
Wooly thyme makes a wonderful groundcover.
You may want to use the upright form of thyme in the garden rather than the groundcover types.
Thyme is easy to grow from seeds or cuttings. Older woody plants should be divided in spring.

Comfrey is one amazing plant.
Accumulates calcium, phosphorous and potassium.
Likes wet spots to grow in.
Comfrey is beneficial to avocado and most other fruit trees.
Traditional medicinal plant.
Good trap crop for slugs.
Excellent compost activator, foliage spray, nutrient miner.
Comfrey is truly essential to all gardens.
More on comfrey.


Honeyberry.


Lovage-Onions.
Lovage - Improves flavor and health of most plants.
Good habitat for ground beetles.
A large plant, use one planted as a backdrop.
Similar to celery in flavor.

Onions - Planting chamomile and summer savory with onions improves their flavor.
Other companions are carrot, leek, beets, kohlrabi, strawberries, brassicas, dill, lettuce and tomatoes.
Intercropping onions and leeks with your carrots confuses the carrot and onion flies!
Onions planted with strawberries help the berries fight disease.
Keep onions away from peas and asparagus.


Mint-French Tarragon.
French Tarragon is my favourite ever herb to eat with fish and chicken, and as a flavour in vinegar for the best ever salad dressing.


Onions-Pea.
Companion Planting with Peas-Just don't plant those precious little peas next to:
- Onion
- Garlic
- Leeks
- Shallots


Blueberries.


Strawberry-Raspberries.
When companion planting with the strawberry be sure to avoid cabbage and plants that are in the cabbage family.

Raspberries - Companions are rue, marigold and garlic which help repel insects from the berries.
The garlic accumulates sulfur which is a natural fungicide so when planted with raspberries, garlic will help prevent fungal diseases.
Turnips can be beneficial companions as they repel the Harlequin Beetle.
Foes: Blackberries, black raspberry, purple raspberry, tomato and potato.
Blackberries, black and purple raspberries should be planted at least 600 feet away from the red varieties because of virus disease susceptibility.
Raspberries grown with potatoes make the potato more susceptible to blight.


Blackcurrant-Redcurrant-Whitecurrant.
Plant a couple of tomatoes near the bushes. You will not believe: 2-3 years this neighborhood and moth in your garden will disappear! And aphids will be significantly less.


Radishes:
One of the workhorses for the garden.
Companions for radishes are: radish, beet, bush beans, pole beans, carrots, chervil, cucumber, lettuce, melons, nasturtium, parsnip, peas, spinach and members of the squash family.
Why plant radishes with your squash plants?
Radishes may protect them from squash borers.
Anything that will help keep them away is worth a try.
Radishes are a deterrent against cucumber beetles and rust flies.
Chervil and nasturtium improve radish growth and flavor.
Planting them around corn and letting them go to seed will also help fight corn borers.
Chinese Daikon and Snow Belle radishes are favorites of flea beetles.
Plant these at 6 to 12 inch intervals amongst broccoli.
In one trial, this measurably reduced damage to broccoli.
Radishes will lure leafminers away from spinach.
The damage the leafminers do to radish leaves does not stop the radish roots from growing, a win-win situation.
Keep radishes away from hyssop plants, cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and turnips.
Radishes are a good indicator of calcium levels in the soil.
If you radish grows and only produces a stringy root you need calcium.
Organic calcium sources like dolomite lime and ground oyster shell are relatively cheap and readily available, but your kitchen generates free organic calcium you probably didn’t know about—eggshells.
Organic calcium sources include dolomite lime, calcite, ground oyster shell (oyster shell flour), and crushed eggshells.
Bone meal: A popular source of phosphorous (11 percent) and calcium (22 percent), bone meal is derived from animal or fish bones and commonly used in a powdered form on root crops and bulbs. It also contains 2 percent nitrogen and many micronutrients. It may attract rodents.

Tuesday 7 October 2014

Growing Strawberries.

Growing Strawberries | Strawberry Plants .org: "Companion Planting Strawberries"
Strawberry Plant Propagation | Strawberry Plants .org: "Strawberry Propagation by Plant Division"
Strawberry Varieties: "There are however a few sub categories to this variety; early season, early midseason, midseason, late midseason and Late season. "
Growing and Propagating Strawberries:
You cannot choose your soil, but you can improve it. Over-enriched soils will tend to grow lush green leaves as opposed to luscious red fruits, so it pays to restrain your organic fervour.

Check the soil pH and amend, if necessary, to about 6.5. A soil manured the previous year gives an ideal start. Such a soil will need the addition of garden compost at 1 barrow to 4m2, plus 75g per m2 each of bone meal and seaweed meal. If your soil is particularly short of nutrients apply one barrow of well rotted manure per 12 m2 in addition.

Both heavy and light soils benefit from leafmould. Moreover, strawberries thrive in it. Work in a 5cm layer to the top 10cm of soil just prior to planting.
Growing Strawberries | Strawberry Plants .org: "Growing Strawberries"

Growing and Propagating Strawberries:
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Thursday 1 May 2014

Companion Planting.

- Cucumis sativus: Sow 2 or 3 radish seeds in with cucumbers to repel cucumber beetles.
- Rhubarb protects beans against black fly.
- A spray made from boiled rhubarb leaves, which contain the poison oxalic acid may be used to prevent blackspot on roses and as an aphicide.
- Chives and onions grown alongside carrots deter carrotfly.

Marigolds: (Calendula): Given a lot of credit as a pest deterrent. Keeps soil free of bad nematodes; supposed to discourage many insects. Plant freely throughout the garden. The marigolds you choose must be a scented variety for them to work. One down side is that marigolds do attract spider mites and slugs.
- French Marigold (T. patula) has roots that exude a substance which spreads in their immediate vicinity killing nematodes. For nematode control you want to plant dense areas of them. There have been some studies done that proved this nematode killing effect lasted for several years after the plants died back. These marigolds also help to deter whiteflies when planted around tomatoes and can be used in greenhouses for the same purpose. Whiteflies hate the smell of marigolds.
Do not plant French marigolds next to bean plants.
- Mexican marigold (T.  minuta) is the most powerful of the insect repelling marigolds and may also overwhelm weed roots such as bind weed! It is said to repel the Mexican bean beetle and wild bunnies! Be careful it can have an herbicidal effect on some plants like beans and cabbage.

Companion Planting.

Asparagus: Friends: Aster family flowers, dill ,coriander, carrots, tomatoes, parsley, basil, comfrey and marigolds. Avoid: Onions, garlic and potatoes.
Basil:Plant with tomatoes to improve growth and flavour. Basil also does well with peppers, oregano, asparagus and petunias. Basil can be helpful in repelling thrips. It is said to repel flies and mosquitoes. Do not plant near rue or sage.
Beet: Good for adding minerals to the soil. The leaves are composed of 25% magnesium making them a valuable addition to the compost pile if you don't care to eat them. Beets are also beneficial to beans with the exception of runner beans. Runner or pole beans and beets stunt each other's growth. Companions for beets are lettuce, onions and brassicas. Beets and kohlrabi grow perfectly together. Beets are helped by garlic and mints. Garlic improves growth and flavour. Rather than planting invasive mints around beets use your mint clippings as a mulch. 
Borage: Companion plant for tomatoes, squash, strawberries and most plants. Deters tomato hornworms and cabbage worms. One of the best bee and wasp attracting plants. Adds trace minerals to the soil and a good addition the compost pile. The leaves contain vitamin C and are rich in calcium, potassium and mineral salts. Borage may benefit any plant it is growing next to via increasing resistance to pests and disease. It also makes a nice mulch for most plants. Borage and strawberries help each other and strawberry farmers always set a few plants in their beds to enhance the fruits flavour and yield. Plant near tomatoes to improve growth and disease resistance. After you have planned this annual once it will self seed. Borage flowers are edible.
Comfrey: This is one amazing plant. Accumulates calcium, phosphorous and potassium. Likes wet spots to grow in. Comfrey is beneficial to avocado and most other fruit trees. Traditional medicinal plant. Good trap crop for slugs. Excellent compost activator, foliage spray, nutrient miner. Comfrey is truly essential to all gardens. More on comfrey.
Caraway: Good for loosening compacted soil with it's deep roots so it's also compatible next to shallow rooted crops. Plant it with strawberries. Caraway can be tricky to establish. The flowers attract a number of beneficial insects especially the tiny parasitic wasps. Keep it away from dill and fennel.
Celery: Companions: Bean, cabbage family, leek, onion, spinach and tomato. Flowers for celery: cosmos, daisies and snapdragons. Foes: Corn, Irish potato and aster flowers. Carrots can be infected with aster yellow disease from asters.
Chamomile, german: Annual. Improves flavour of cabbages, cucumbers and onions. Host to hover flies and wasps. Accumulates calcium, potassium and sulphur, later returning them to the soil. Increases oil production from herbs. Leave some flowers unpicked and   German chamomile will reseed itself. Roman chamomile is a low growing perennial that will tolerate almost any soil conditions. Both like full sun. Growing chamomile of any type is considered a tonic for anything you grow in the garden.
Chards: Companions: Bean, cabbage family, tomato, onion and roses. Don't overlook chard's value as an ornamental plant in flower beds or wherever you have room for it. Don't grow chard near cucurbits, melons, corn or herbs.
Chervil: Companion to radishes, lettuce and broccoli for improved growth and flavour. Keeps aphids off lettuce. Said to deter slugs. Likes shade.
Chives: Improves growth and flavour of carrots and tomatoes. A friend to apples, carrots, tomatoes, brassica (broccoli, cabbage, mustard, etc) and many others. Help to keep aphids away from tomatoes, mums and sunflowers. Chives may drive away Japanese beetles and carrot rust fly. Planted among apple trees it helps prevent scab and among roses it prevents black spot. You will need patience as it takes about 3 years for plantings of chives to prevent the 2 diseases. A tea of chives may be used on cucumbers and gooseberries to prevent downy  and powdery mildews. Avoid planting near beans and peas. See chive tea on disease page.
Coriander (Cilantro, Chinese Parsley etc.): The leaves of this plant are Cilantro. When left to flower and go to seed the dried tan seeds are Coriander, a familiar spice. It is a member of the carrot family. Repels harmful insects such as aphids, spider mites and potato beetle. A tea from this can be used as a spray for spider mites. Partners coriander are for anise, caraway, potatoes and dill.
Cucumbers: Cucumbers are great to plant with corn and beans. The three plants like the same conditions: warmth, rich soil and plenty of moisture. Let the cucumbers grow up and over your corn plants. Cucumbers also do well with peas, beets, radishes and carrots. Radishes are a good deterrent against cucumber beetles. Dill planted with cucumbers helps by attracting beneficial predators. Nasturtium improves growth and flavour. Keep sage, potatoes and rue away from cucumbers. It is said that cucumbers don't do well planted next to tomatoes. We have never had a problem with planting them next to each other.
Dill: Improves growth and health of cabbage. Do not plant near carrots, caraway, lavender or tomatoes. Best friend for lettuce. The flower heads of dill are one of the best nectar sources for beneficial insects in the garden attracting hover flies, predatory wasps and many more. Repels aphids and spider mites to some degree. Also may repel the dreaded squash bug! (scatter some good size dill leaves on plants that are subject to squash bugs, like squash plants.) Dill goes well with lettuce, onions, cabbage, sweet corn and cucumbers. Dill does attract the tomato horn worm so it would be wise to plant it somewhere away from your tomato plants. Do plant dill in an appropriate spot for the swallowtail butterfly caterpillars to feed on. Even their caterpillars are beautiful.
Squash: Companions: Beans, corn, cucumbers, icicle radishes, melon, mint, onions and pumpkin. Helpers: Borage deters worms, improves growth and flavour. Marigolds deters beetle. Nasturtium deters squash bugs and beetles. Oregano provides general pest protection. Dill may repel the squash bug that will kill your squash vines. Generously scatter the dill leaves on your squash plants. Keep squash away from potatoes.
Sweet potatoes: Sweet potatoes are not the same as regular potatoes. They are a member of the morning glory family. "Regular" potatoes are a member of the Solanaceae family which is the same as tomatoes, peppers etc. Aromatic herbs such as dill, thyme, oregano etc. are some of the plants that work well with them. Summer savoury helps to confuse and perhaps repel the  Sweet potato weevil. They do well with root crops: beets, parsnips and salsify. Bush beans and regular potatoes are companions to them also. Alyssum makes a perfect living mulch for them. A few, only a few, pole beans may be planted with them and left to grow on the ground with the potato vines. Keep them away from squash. The problem with sweet potatoes and squash is they will compete with each other as they both like to spread out. In fact that is the general problem with sweet potatoes- they take up so much room and need full sun. Another idea is to grow them in a container. For your reference: you could grow a single sweet potato plant in a box or tub that is at least 12" high and 15" wide. Use a light, porous soil mix. Place a stake or trellis in the centre to support the vine which grow up and outwards.
Strawberry: Friends are beans, borage, lettuce, onions, spinach and thyme. Foes: Cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and kohlrabi. Allies: Borage strengthens resistance to insects and disease. Thyme, as a border, deters worms.
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Saturday 3 November 2012

Gardening Techniques - Companion planting.

Plant combinations

Grow French marigolds among tomatoes. Marigolds emit a strong odour that will repel greenfly and blackfly.
Grow sage with carrots or plants in the cabbage family to ward off pests. Both have strong scents that drive away each other's pests.
Plant nasturtium with cabbages - they're a magnet for caterpillars that will then leave the cabbages alone.
Garlic planted among roses will ward off aphids.
Plant carrots and leeks together on the allotment or vegetable patch to protect against a number of pests. Leeks repel carrot fly and carrots repel onion fly and leek moth.
Make sure companion plants are planted at the same time as your edible crops to prevent pests from getting a foothold.

Ten plants to try

Asparagus - prevents microscopic nematodes from attacking the roots of tomatoes
Chervil - keeps aphids off lettuce
Chives - onion scent wards off aphids from chrysanthemums, sunflowers and tomatoes
Coriander - helps to repel aphids
Dill - attracts aphid eating beneficial insects likes hoverflies and predatory wasps
Garlic - deters aphids and is particularly good planted with roses
Tansy - strongly scented plant deters ants
Plants in the pea family - lupins, peas, beans and sweet peas benefit the soil by taking nitrogen from the air and storing it in their roots
Yarrow - this boosts vigour in other plants and accumulates phosphorous, calcium and silica, which can benefit homemade compost when plants are added to the heap. It attracts many beneficial creatures such as hoverflies and ladybirds