Kitchen Garden

COMANION PLANTING FACT OR FICTION?

COMPANION PLANTING GET GROWING

Companion planting is simply planting one plant next to another to support pest control, shelter, weed suppression or improving soil fertility. Some of these benefits are well proven, while others are based on much more flimsy evidence. We take a look at what works and what doesn't.

COMMON MYTHS

One of the most touted ideas is that strongly scented companion plants will mask the smell of the crop so that the pest isglasshouse whiteflies. However, there are other studies where this is not so clear cut.

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Kitchen Garden

Kitchen Garden8 min read
Easy Does It!
Could this be our busiest time of the year? Sowing, potting on and planting out is at its peak, the weeds are up, and while we welcome warmer days, it signals the regular round of watering now begins. In my garden I need things to be as low maintenan
Kitchen Garden2 min read
Book Reviews
by Huw Richards and Sam Cooper In this new book two popular online authors combine to show you how a family of two to three can become self-sufficient in food from a relatively small space (equivalent to half a standard allotment plot). While Huw dea
Kitchen Garden1 min read
Welcome
May is such an exciting and inspiring month; the garden and veg plot seems to be just bursting with energy and with longer days and warmer soils everything is growing at speed. This does mean there is plenty to do now to take advantage of this period

Related Books & Audiobooks