Kitchen Garden

GOOD COMPANIONS

Companion planting is the term used when you use one plant to benefit another or when you grow more than one plant together for a mutual benefit to both plants; in essence, it’s when you plant different plants together in your garden rather than rows and rows of the same thing.

When we grow large areas of just one crop it’s called a monoculture and problems can spread quickly when this method of growing is used. Imagine a large field of cabbages: when a problem like cabbage white caterpillar starts there is little you can do to stop them working their way through the entire field (apart from spray with pesticides), as all the plants are the same type

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