I’m a strong believer in organic gardening (as you might have guessed) and one technique I love to use is Companion Planting. Basically, planting groups of plants together that help each other in some way. Often it’s to confuse insects with a vast variety of smells or textures.
Some plants benefit others by attracting pollinators or [...]
Filed under: companion planting on February 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Companion planting is one system that many organic gardeners use to help keep plants healthy and reduce pest problems by working with nature.
Growing different types of plants close together often confuses pests, so that they don’t find your great row of carrots, say, and munch all the way through the row to the end (then [...]
Filed under: companion planting, vegetables on June 24th, 2008 | No Comments »
If you’ve ever wondered just what is organic gardening, you’re probably not alone. There is a movement sweeping across the western world that has a lot of people going back to the old ways in an effort to live greener, healthier lives.
Essentially the difference between gardening and organic gardening is that if you’re gardening organically [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, companion planting on May 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
Today was a perfect day to spend in my organic garden. There was a bright blue sky, with occasional whispy, white clouds passing on a just a breath of air.
I pottered around my garden for most of the afternoon. Tidying this, pulling up that… throwing bits to the chooks. My organic veggie garden’s become a [...]
Filed under: companion planting, vegetables on April 5th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A great system I use in my organic garden is Companion Planting. I’ve found that I have very few insect or pest problems and I credit it mostly to the fact that I use companion planting techniques.
It also means that I plant my veggies more densely than if they were grown in rows on their [...]
Filed under: companion planting on December 4th, 2007 | 1 Comment »