How to Grow More Vegetables

Corn can provide the shade that cucumbers enjoy. Shallow/Deep rooting—One example is shallower- rooting beans interplanted with ...

Weed, Insect, and Animal Relationships “Weed” control—The growth of beets, members of the cabbage family, and alfalfa is slowed ...

Sow thistle grows with lettuce in one example of shallow/deep rooting symbiosis. Their roots do not compete with each other. Ins ...

several herbs will help you determine the ones that work best for you. The more “unpleasant” plants there are in the garden, the ...

Ants: Spearmint, tansy, and pennyroyal. Mint often attracts whiteflies, so you may want to grow a few marigolds for control, bu ...

poisonous to gophers. Be careful with the latter two, however, as they are also very toxic to children, especially infants. Bird ...

only assist and approximate her in our creations. If we are gentle in relation to her forces and balances, she will correct our ...

2 Helen Philbrick and Richard B. Gregg, Companion Plants and How to Use Them (Old Greenwich, CT: Devin-Adair Company, 1966), pp. ...

10 From Organic Gardening and Farming, February 1972, p. 52–53. 11 Plants in the gourd family. Common Garden Vegetables, Their C ...

Corn pumpkins, squash Cucumbers Beans, corn, peas, radishes,sunflowers, lettuce Potatoes,aromatic herbs Eggplant Beans, potatoes ...

Squash Nasturtiums, corn Strawberries Bush beans, spinach, borage, lettuce(as a border), onions Cabbage Sunflowers Cucumbers Pot ...

Fennel Plant away from gardens; disliked by most plants Flax Companion to carrots and potatoes; deters potato bugs;improves grow ...

Pigweed Among the best weeds for pumping nutrients from the subsoil; good for potatoes, onions, and corn; keep weeds thinned Pot ...

glory Plant with corn Wormwood Plant as a border to deter animals Yarrow Plant along borders, paths, and near aromatic herbs;enh ...

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I 7 AN INTERRELATED FOOD-RAISING SYSTEM: Creating and Caring for a Balanced Natural Ecosystem with Insect Life GOAL: Grow a mini ...

detracting from our lives rather than adding to them. In trying to isolate an insect and deal with it separately out of relation ...

Not too much moisture, but enough. Not too much aeration, but enough. Not too many harmful insects, but enough. You )nd the need ...

the problem, but rather an unhealthy soil is. The soil needs your energy, not the insect. The uninterrupted growth that the GROW ...

amounts of these elements (in pounds per 100 square feet) that should be in the soil. (Smaller amounts of organic fertilizer ele ...