PLANT PARTNERS GET GROWING
This is an extract from Living with the Earth, Volume 2: Food Crops and Forest Gardens by Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer. Order directly from the publisher and get 20% off the RRP (£45) with discount code KGLE20. https://shop.permaculture.co.uk
In nature, plants grow in diverse communities (or guilds). Extending this to our gardens should therefore be a given. Farmers have always mixed crops. The ‘three sisters’, or milpa — a rotation of corn, squash and beans —
