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  • Beans and polycultures

    After hearing about polyculture on GW tonight i was starting to think of veggie combinations that you could use on a plot.

    The obvious is to start with beans that put nitrogen into the soil and then plant something that takes it back out again.

    So i was thinking about some of the following

    Beans - Brassica - Lettuce/Radish

    Beans/Peas - Squash (2 sisters) - beetroot.

    Beans - courgette

    Beans/peas - perpetual spinich - Herbs ( parsley )

    Peas and Leeks

    does anyone else have any other ideas?
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  • #2
    Originally posted by Duronal View Post
    Peas and Leeks

    does anyone else have any other ideas?
    A few pelvic floor exercises may be needed here LOL
    Last edited by zazen999; 18-04-2009, 06:49 AM.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by paulw View Post

      a few pelvic floor exercises may be needed here lol
      rofl


      Last edited by zazen999; 18-04-2009, 06:53 AM.
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      • #4
        Isn't that what we used to call companion planting?

        There are books written on the dos and don't of this and many gardening books now contain sections on it.

        Is this the new jargon for gardeners, polyculture?
        TonyF, Dordogne 24220

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        • #5
          From what I can gather Tony, polyculture is a "step on" from companion planting.

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          • #6
            Polyculture is just a collective term for companion planting, multi cropping or crop rotation; ie anything other than monoculture.

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            • #7
              or you could go another step up to permaculture and forest gardens
              Permaculture- A Beginner's Guide
              (Look at no.13 if you don't want to look at it all)

              I particularly like this quote
              “You haven’t got an excess of slugs, you’ve got a duck deficiency”.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by zazen999 View Post
                Polyculture is just a collective term for companion planting, multi cropping or crop rotation; ie anything other than monoculture.
                Ah, so it's 'newspeak' for what we've been doing in gardens for years. Evidently the terms we use need a makeover too.
                TonyF, Dordogne 24220

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                • #9
                  It should be called 'common sense' gardening! Geoff Hamilton is my hero in this respect!
                  My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                  to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                  Diversify & prosper


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