Re: Companion Planting Chart - FYI

 

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 Oren wrote:

<http://www.idepfoundation.org/download_files/garden_compost/Poster_GDN_Com_Plant.pdf>

You would do better putting your effort into learning about soil, climate,
plant nutrition etc.  Companion planting is not based on science in the main
but tradition and myth.  There are negative interactions between some
plants - look up allelopathy  - but most of this stuff has no basis in
observed fact.  It's like moon planting, it has been passed on and accepted
for generations by believers but lacks foundation.  Just because it is old
doesn't make it right.

This gives a reasonable run down on it.

http://www.puyallup.wsu.edu/~Linda%20Chalker-Scott/Horticultural%20Myths_files/Myths/Companion%20plants.pdf

David

 On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:03:30 +1100, "David Hare-Scott"


<http://www.idepfoundation.org/download_files/garden_compost/Poster_GDN_Com_Plant.pdf>

I got a book about it and discovered that many of the combinations did
not grow at the same time in my area.
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North Carolina Foothills
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 The Cook wrote:

<http://www.idepfoundation.org/download_files/garden_compost/Poster_GDN_Com_Plant.pdf>

http://www.puyallup.wsu.edu/~Linda%20Chalker-Scott/Horticultural%20Myths_files/Myths/Companion%20plants.pdf

The same here.

D

 
Thanks Oren - I find it useful.




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