Companion Planting
Garden plans for the coming season will definitely involve companion planting. I did a little of it last year, planting parsley in the asparagus and basil in the tomatoes and locating the tomatoes next to the asparagus. It worked out pretty well. This year it will be the cornerstone of my garden plans.
I found a treatise on companion planting on the internet http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/complant.html#chart . This chart has the plants that go well together. Many years ago the Organic Gardening magazine suggested planting things together that you eat together. That could work; but the chart says not to plant peas & onions together. I always like them cooked together.
Companion planting is nothing new. The indigenous Americans made what they called a “milpa”. This was squash, beans and corn planted in a circle. I tried that year before last and it worked pretty well except the deer ate the corn. I can’t wait to start gardening and quit talking about it.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
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