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Vegetable Gardening Plant Combinations: Companion Planting NO Dig

Companion planting and combining means growing plants together that like or benefit each other.
Vegetable companion gardening can have a real impact on the health and yield of your plants.

In nature everything interacts to create a whole life force. This is a basic understanding... that
everything organic and living has a mutual influence on every other living thing.

Every plant has an effect on every other plant and every creature has an effect on every other
creature.

Over time, gardeners have observed these interrelationships, and scientists have studied them.

It‘s well worth while reading a little bit about how and why companion planting is so important
before we get into which specific plants go with what. . . .

Plants, unlike many people, are not timid. They are always actively engaged in growing as fast and
as strong as they can and re-populating their species. They do all this by sending out root hairs as far
into the soil as they can depending on their surroundings.

They select and reject nutrients; they create in their structure and the environment, complex chemical
compounds, such as perfumes, pollen, essential oils, growth inhibitors, hormones, enzymes and some
minute trace elements.

Different species accumulate certain substances that affect the surrounding ecology, often once the
plant has died and the decaying tissue is carried away and re-deposited by insect droppings, or other
go-betweens.

Nature's Way of Companion Planting

The companion effect happens naturally in the wild. Flora and fauna of fields, meadows, forests,
swamps and deserts, all evolve for mutual benefit. It may seem like survival of the fittest, but the
truth is some species prefer to grow with specific others, balancing out their differences and
providing ideal conditions for optimising their unique traits.

Plants don't like to fight for their food, so shallow rooted plants prefer to grow near deep rooted
plants and each can get their nutrients from different levels. Some smaller plants like a bit of weather
protection from bigger plants. Conversely, dry loving plants sulk if grown alongside plants that
thrive with wet feet.

Just like us, life's too short for putting up with bad conditions... so aim for the good life for your
plants too!

Uh oh... I hear you say...

If it all sounds overly complex and high falutin', step back and observe. That's what good gardeners
are so good at... just observe what works for you in your patch, not what you read or what the
Joneses do.

There's a good deal of debate on some of the mixes and matches of plant combining, and in one area
or climate certain twosomes or threesomes may get along particularly well... but change the
conditions... and trouble brews.

Often plants that seemingly dislike each other can successfully co-exist as long as they're spaced
father enough away so their root zones don't overlap... therefore wider rows may work or maybe
have some herbs planted amongst them.

If your garden is a jumbled jungle and thrives, then no need to order your plants around. But if
perchance something isn't quite up to scratch, then practise a little plant companionship and see if
that brings improvements.

Home veggie gardeners of course usually like to grow their food on as much available space as they
can. They don‘t want weeds, pests or ornamentals occupying valuable real estate!

But flowers for example make good companion plants as well as adding beauty. They can attract
predators to go after pests and they bring bees to your garden for pollinating your fruit.

Aromatic weeds and herbs help confuse hungry pests that might go after your crops. Their fragrances
can distract pests away or mask the odor from the pests‘ normal favorite plants.

Intercropping or Interplanting goes hand in hand with companion planting.

Crop Rotation is also an indispensable ally for gardeners, and is another way of plants benefitting other plants.

The chart below lists the well-known basic veggie warm fuzzies... who loves who and who not and why.

Companion Planting Chart for Vegetables

Vegetable Good Companions Bad Companions
Asparagus Basil, tomato, Nasturtium, Onion, garlic, potato,
parsley, basil, dill, coriander,
marigold, aster flower
(Parsley and marigolds repel
asparagus beetles, solanine
in tomatoes protect against
asparagus beetles)
Beans Carrot, cabbage, cauliflower, Chives, leek, garlic, onions, tomatoes, peppers
cucumber, celery, corn,
marigold.
(Corn protects against wind,
sun and provides climbing
support. Squash has deep
roots, beans are shallow and
squash smothers weeds and
provides a living mulch)
Cucumber, strawberries
(Particularly go well near
dwarf beans)
Broad Beans Brassicas, carrot, celery, Fennel
corn, lettuce, potato
Beets Broccoli, lettuce, onion, sage Bean (pole and runner)
Broccoli Celery, chamomile, mint, dill, Oregano, strawberry, tomato
rosemary
(Dill attracts beneficial wasps
to help control pests including
cabbageworms. Rosemary
repels cabbage fly)
Brussels Potato, thyme, dill Strawberry, tomato
Sprouts
Cabbage Beetroot, bush beans, celery, Strawberry, tomato
mint, onion, potato, oregano, (Although tomatoes and cabbages usually repel each
dill, chamomile, sage other, the solanine in a few nearby tomatoes will help
(Aromatic plants like onion, deter diamondback moth larva)
celery and herbs help keep

cabbages pest free)
Carrot Bush beans, pole beans, Dill, parsnip
lettuce, onion, garlic etc,
parsley, rosemary, pea,
radish, tomato
(Onion family plants, parsley
and rosemary deter carrot
rust fly)
Cauliflower Peas, beans, celery, oregano Nasturtium, peas, potato, strawberry, tomato
(Peas and beans help fix
nitrogen to supply to
cauliflowers)
Celery Cabbage, cauliflower, leek, Parsnip, potato
onion, spinach, tomato
(Leeks like similar high
potash growing conditions as
Celery and celeriac)
Chard Cabbage, endive
(Swiss
chard,
silverbeet)
Corn Beans, cucumber, melon, Tomato
peas, pumpkin, potato, radish (The same worm (tomato worm and corn earworm)
(Peas and beans supply likes both plants)
nitrogen)
Cucumber Beans, peas, celery, lettuce, Cauliflower, potato, basil and any strong aromatic
pea, radish, nasturtium, corn herbs
(Nasturtium deters cucumber
beetles and harbour
beneficial spiders and
beetles. Corn protects against
bacterial wilt virus)
Eggplant Beans, capsicum, potato,
spinach, peppers
(Beans repel Colorado potato
beetle which attacks
eggplant)
kohlrabi Onions, beets, lettuce Strawberries, tomatoes, pole beans
(Lettuce repels earth flies)
Leek Carrot, celery, onions,
strawberry
(Carrots deter leek moth.
Celery and celeriac like
similar high potash growing
conditions as leeks)
Lettuce Carrots, radishes, strawberry, Beans, beetroot, parsley
cucumber
Melon Corn, radish Potato
Onion Broccoli, cabbage, carrots, Beans, peas
lettuce, strawberry tomato,
beets, tomatoes, summer
savory
Pea Beans, carrot, corn, Onion family

cucumber, radish, turnips,
spinach, mint, potatoes
Potato Horseradish, beans, corn, Cucumber, tomato, Jerusalem artichokes, pumpkin,
cabbage, pea, eggplant squash, sunflower, raspberries
(Beans repel Colorado potato (Cucumbers, tomatoes and raspberries attract potato
beetle. Horseradish protects phytophthora blight)
against potato bugs and
stimulates growth)
Pumpkin Corn, beans, peas, radish Potato
Radish Lettuce
(Repels earth flies)
Spinach Strawberry, celery,
cauliflower, eggplant, radish
(Leafminers prefer radish
leaves rather than spinach)
Tomato Asparagus, celery, NZ Corn, potato, kohlrabi, fennel, cabbage and other
spinach, carrot, parsley, basil, brassicas
marigold, garlic
(Garlic protects against red
spiders)
Turnip Peas
Zucchini Nasturtium, flowering herbs
(Flowers attract bees for
pollination)

Companion Planting Will Maximise Your Veggie Crops
Whether you are planting a new garden or replanting one that has been growing for years,
attention to companion planting is guaranteed to improve your homegrown crops.

It's a simple concept based on the way nature works... naturally. For instance one plant's enemy is
another plant's food. Some bad bugs have pet hates, so by planting or introducing what they don't
like, you can protect the plants that they would otherwise feed on. And then there are plants that have
something to offer other plants, be it shade, or some sort of nutrient they put into the soil. You will
also find that some plants provide other plants with specific nourishment.

A Fatal Attraction for Bad Bugs

Here the trick is to plant whatever attracts the nasties. For instance, the tiny black aphids that chomp
their way through young cabbages, broccoli and other veggies provide a feast for nasturtiums. These
easy-growing herbs attract the aphids with their sticky juices that effectively end up smothering large
numbers of these damaging mini-bugs.

Growing Plants that Deter Bugs

An interesting fact about companion planting is that not all plants like - or dislike - the same bugs.
Similarly, while some plants (like carrots) love tomatoes, some plants (like dill and asparagus) loath
tomatoes.

Some examples of plants that will deter bad bugs include:

 pennyroyal that keeps worms and beetles away from strawberries,
 asparagus and marigolds both help to protect tomatoes from harmful nematodes in the soil,
 lemon verbena that will keep flies, aphids and midges away from all vegetables and fruit trees,
 just about any plant that is related to garlic or onions, including chives (in particular garlic will
chase off potato bugs).

Plants that Have Other Benefits for Companion Plants

Providing shade is a biggie, but you need to be sure that the shade giver actually likes the plant you
choose to be its companion. Sweetcorn is an excellent provider of shade and works well with a lot of
other plants, including pumpkin that will creep around towering corn plants, producing fruit at
ground level. It can also be a support for some climbing flower plants.

Fennel is one of the few plants that most other plants hate! But there are a couple of veggies that like
fennel, including gem squash and spring onions (or green onions).

There are many more plants that benefit from just about anything. Yarrow is a good example as it
attracts ladybirds and wasps that both love to eat aphids. Most plants are fond of yarrow.

Picking Plants that Deter Bugs

Just as we can use leaves and other parts of certain plants to make organic pesticides, or to rid our
environment of pests (scented geraniums are great for mosquitoes, freshly crushed tomato and basil
leaves will usually get rid of flies, and sprigs of catnip will get rid of ants), there are similar steps we
can take within the garden itself. Here are two possibilities:

1. Don't rake up the leaves from oak trees. Instead use them to create a barrier around garden
beds where lettuces are growing and they'll keep the snails and slugs away.
2. If you're a fan of grapefruit, cut them in half and scoop out the fruit, then use the skin "shells"
to attract slugs. Simply place them upside down in any part of the garden where slugs are a
problem and remove them, together with slug invaders, the next day.

Ultimately you need to be aware of which plants do well together, and which don't. Probably one of
the very best examples of companion planting is illustrated by the relationship between tomatoes and
asparagus. They really are best friends because not only will the solanine contained in tomatoes
protect asparagus plants from insect attack, but it also encourages growth in the asparagus.

Intercropping, Polyculture or Relay Cropping in the vegetable Garden

Intercropping is in! Whether you call it relay cropping, polyculture, double crop or multiple
cropping... it’s a specifc form of companion planting and a fine way to increase the harvest from
your garden.

Bare soil is a no no.

Nature... if left to be natural... rarely allows nudity and likes to cover up exposed bits.

This stops the soil drying out or being washed away and keeps the soil organisms happy and
protected from the elements.

So growing several or multiple crops of different plants in the same area, each allowing for their own
growth patterns and needs, gives you greater returns and less work.

Intercropping/Polyculture Benefits

No doubt you‘ve heard of monoculture? Possibly you do have an idea... but I still have to say you
have no idea what a short-sighted folly it is follow the vast monoculture practices that we do in the
world today.

Monoculture — Mono means one. One crop, say corn, covering as far as the eye can see in every
direction! Or, one country with every farmer growing the same crop, say potatoes, on large and small
plots.

Now can you see the specific corn pest or virus go giddy with excitement? Can you hear the potato
pest or potato blight text their mates to come to the party?

The same thing can happen in a mini way to your garden if you grow all one sort of plant, or large
blocks of one variety. The opposite of monoculture is polyculture — Poly means many. See how
confused the pests and diseases are now. There are no feasts to encourage them to get a firm foothold
and cause problems.

Often you can plant a crop of two or more different varieties of the same family, but checking that
they each have different disease resistance.

Intercropping Examples

Let‘s take a large plant such as a cabbage. Although it starts small it grows a lot chunkier. Same with
other brassicas such as broccoli and Brussels sprouts; and same as vines like zucchini or squash.

In the meantime and in between — plant speedy crops like radish, rocket or leafy lettuce. By the time
the main plants grow into their surrounding space, you will have harvested and enjoyed a meal or
more of your intercrop plants.

Even with rows you can intercrop, or doublecrop as it‘s often called. A common example is to sow
slow parsnips with fast radishes together in rows. Parsnip seeds take forever and a day to germinate,
but cheeky radishes will pop up, mark the rows for you, and you can crunch your way through them
which will then leave space for the parsnips to grow.

End of season picture of chilli plant underplanted with vines

Intercropping can be described as undercropping when it comes to ‗vertically challenged‘ plants.
Little shorties of the leafy varieties like lettuce which like some sun protection, can be grown in the
shade of the tallest plants such as broad beans or corn.

The short crop also acts as a living mulch for the roots of the tall plants.

The classic “Three Sisters” combination planted by Native Americans is a perfect example of
intercropping or plant combining.

The Three Sisters describes three indigenous plants grown together. Corn (maize) with their tall
stalks provided support for beans and shade for squash. In turn the squash vines provided a living
mulch to control weeds and protect the roots of the corn and beans. The prickly squash vines deter
pests as well.

Makeup cropping (I made up that word) means filling up a bare patch, which we know nature abhors,
with a makeup crop... usually a gaggle of fast salad plants like radish, lettuce, bok choy etc... that you
can make up a salad with!

This takes care of that garden patch where you‘ve eaten the last skerricks of say a winter crop of
cauli and you want to plant some spuds there but it‘s too early; so use the patch for some quick,
small plants that you‘ll be finished with in a month or so.

Intercropping Tips

Stuffing your garden to the gunnels is not exactly the idea with polyculture. Cramming too much into
every spare space can create problems with fungal diseases due to reduced air flow.

Also an over-heavy layer of plants increases the need to water more often. It also makes harvesting
difficult.

Any time you see that your main crop is being hampered by a second or third crop, take a step back
and sort them all out... in fact pull a few plants out and restore some order to the melee. Peace must
reign in your garden for success. No fighting allowed!

The Golden rule with intercropping is to use the available planting area to its maximum advantage to
get maximum yields without compromising plant health.

Crop Rotation All about Succesion Planting in your
Vegetable Garden
A key to successful gardening is crop rotation. It’s not the latest dinner party gossip, it’s old hat.
So be a smart cookie and do what nature does (there I go about nature again)!

Different plants take different nutrients out of the ground soil and add back other elements or
enhance the soil in other ways. To prevent your garden from becoming less productive from season
to season, crops are rotated.

Importantly, crop rotation allows you to naturally interrupt the life cycle of pests and deseases so
they cannot become established.

Of course, this applies only the to annual plantings, not the perennial plants, such as asparagus.

Plant succession happens naturally, whether it be caused by a landslide, flood, or a freshly bulldozed
area. First onto the scarred soil grow the aggressive weeds which hold it together and stop wind and
rain from denuding it further.

Usually the next invaders lurking under the weed cover are matted rambling plants. They guard the
ground and may have thorns, as though to warn, ‖Sorry, you can‘t come in here now, but never
mind, have some berries!‖

The next succession, under protection from the elements come the fast growing trees, followed by
the re-establishment of the full forest many decades later. It‘s a natural succession, each succession
benefitting from the previous plants.

In our gardens we have a less elaborate but more specific plan. As with nature, which will quickly
cover soil with plants, what we do is to choose the plants which will bring us the most benefits.

Rather that letting weeds spring up, we plant either a fallow or cover crop to tide us over to the next
season and replace lost nutrients that the previous crop took out, or we plant another useful vegetable
crop that utilises different nutrients and growing conditions than the previous crop.

Here’s a story...
Mamma Colorado beetle got blown over 'n over and landed down the street into.. wow, her wildest
delight, an eggplant patch. She laid lots of eggs and the baby larvae chomped on the leaves. The
babies dropped into the soil to pupate, slept in and suddenly it was spring again. Time to get up, but
where‘s breakfast? Why has Mum given us spinach? We don‘t like spinach, we want eggplants...
waaa... keel over and die...

And of course, if you have the misfortune of getting blight in your spuds, onion worm in your
onions, and other flapadoodle dandies dicing your veggies, then you simply must not grow those
veggies in the same space again for many years.

It's better to rotate veggies to prevent any trouble happening in the first place, but you can quickly
stop any rogues in their tracks by careful management thereafter.

Separate the garden into sections. Anything from 4-8 areas is ideal. They can be part of one bed, or
they can be a group of beds, it doesn't matter. Visualise it, draw it down, mark it out — or do what
you need to get the picture of how it will work in your garden.

Many gardens are higgledy piggledy plots of soil here and there, or odd shapes, so don't worry about
doing the perfect diagram.

What does matter is that you rotate the crops around the beds systematically. The rule of thumb for
crop rotation is counterclockwise... don‘t ask me why... funny lot we gardeners!

The suggestions here will be put in very broad terms. It is impossible to predict every combination of
vegetables that you will want to grow, but the principles are fairly straight forward.

Plant Requirements

There are roughly 3 main classes of plants when talking about their requirements. They are:

1. Heavy feeders: These need lots of fresh rich fertiliser (compost, reasonably aged manure and
liquid manure etc ) and can be planted immediately into this fertilised soil.

These heavy feeders are all leaf vegetables like head lettuce, spinach, brassicas such as
cabbage and cauliflower, chard, endive, as well as celery, leeks, sweet corn and vines
particularly cucumbers and squash. Rhubarb is a heavy feeder, but does not need to be rotated
because it is a perennial.

Tomatoes, another heavy feeder, are decidedly odd in that they like to grow in the same spot
each year and somehow build up resistance to problems. This is handy because you can utilise
that nice warm spot by the fence for example, each season... but you must make sure you pile
on plenty of fresh compost each year.

2. Soil conserving and improving: Legumes such as peas and beans, and cover crops, often
called fallow crops are perfect to follow heavy feeders. These are plants give the soil a bit of a
rest, as well as returning some nitrogen and fiber to the soil when they are incorporated into
the ground by way of mulch or compost before the next crop.
3. Lighter feeders: They still love that compost, but it must not be fresh otherwise they will
grow rank and coarse. So well aged fertiliser suits such plants as all bulb and root crops like
carrots, radishes, beets etc. Parsley with its long tap root, and many herbs also fall into this
aged compost feeding class.

What about the families?

Ah yes, like us they can wear each other out! Horticulturally, it‘s because plants from the same
family tend to have the same nutritional needs and can exhaust the soil of particular elements if
continually planted in succession. They can also attract the same problems which can build up
alarmingly unless the family members do a recommended split.

Out of thousands of plant families, here are the most familiar ones:

Monocots

Grasses (Gramineae), like cereals and corn.

Dicots

Mustard Family (Cruciferae). Cold loving plants, such as brassicas like cabbage, kale, bok choy,
collards like kohl rabi and turnip, etc. Also radish and cress.

Pea Family (Leguminosae). These include peas, of course, and beans plus vetch, lentils and lupins.

Carrot Family (Umbelliferae). Lots of long root crops here, like carrots, parsnips, parsley, celeriac,
fennel, chervil, and the root herbs.

Goosefoot Family (Chenopodiaceae). A mixture here, such as beets, swiss chard and spinach.

Nightshade Family (Solanaceae). The well know potato and tomato plants. Also eggplant, chillies
and peppers.

Gourd Family (Cucurbitaceae). Warm loving plants such as melons, pumpkins, squashes and other
gourds.

Composite Family (Compositae). So called because of their complex composite flowers, they
include endive, witlof, sunlfower, Jerusalem and globe artichoke, salsify and some herbs like
dandelion, yarrow and chamomile.

A few of the many other plant families include the Buckwheat Family (Polygonaceae) which has
rhubarb; the Morning Glory Family (Convolvulaceae) which supplies us with yams, kumara and
sweet potatoes; the Mallow Family (Malvaceae) supplying okra; the Carpet Weed Family
(Aizoaceae) giving us New Zealand spinach; the Rose Family (Rosaceae) with most fruits and
berries including strawberries: and the Mint Family (Labiatae) which include mint, sage, oregano,
marjoram, thyme, rosemary, basil, lemon balm, savory, bergamot and many other herbs.

Time for a tour of your garden to work all this out... or better still to sit down and write a plan. It's
helpful, especially if you are just starting out, to make notes and keep a record of what you do.

It soon becomes natural for you to rotate your plants, making small adjustments to arrive at
perfection (you wish!). I recommend you have a look at GrowVeg's popular modern method for
garden planning, incorporating crop rotation.

Briefly to start, plant like with like. Divide your plants into families because they need broadly
similar conditions and they generally get along together. The odd exception is usually because of
pests and disease challenges, such as Potatoes and tomatoes, whereby tomatoes attract potato blight.

Prepare each area for what it is expected to grow. Leafy heavy feeders like an early and continuous
feast; most root crops like an alkaline soil and hold back on the manure and fresh compost.

Tomatoes and eggplants like a more acidic soil, with plenty of feeding and aged manure.

Legume crops love well aged compost and a few light feedings to follow. They will leave the soil
loaded with nitrogen which sets the bed up perfectly for brassicas and leafy greens to follow.

For most home gardeners it's nigh impossible to do crop rotation 100%. So be content with
succession planting on a small scale and for generally watching out for potential hazards. Club root
in brassicas is one that comes to mind — it's hard to avoid if you don't rotate those brassicas,
especially if you buy in seedlings or accept some from a friend.

Sample outline of crop rotation

So a typical sample 4 bed rotation might look like this:

Bed 1: Root Crops, onions
Bed 2: Legumes (peas, beans), brassicas (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, brussels sprouts)
Bed 3: Tomatoes, eggplant, capsicum (peppers)
Bed 4: Sweet corn, curcubits (cucumber, melons, pumpkin)

A 6 bed rotation might look like this:

Bed 1: Legumes
Bed 2: Brassicas

Bed 3: Root crops, carrots, parsnips, potatoes
Bed 4: Corn, curcubits
Bed 5: Tomatoes, capsicums, eggplant
Bed 6: Green manure crop

Don't be too rigid in your classifications if you don't have enough room to make clear demarcations.
Just make sure you keep it moving season after season or at least every 2-4 years.

Decimating Your Veggie Garden?
Has This Happened To You?

You've worked very hard, preparing the soil months in advance so you can nurture
your seedlings in a beautiful loamy, moist mix, absolutely brimming with
nutrients…

You've hand raised your seedlings, lovingly from seed, or purchased nice sturdy
ones from your local garden centre and gently planted them in rows into their lush
new home.

You spend hours mulching, watering, feeding, staking and caring for them with all the love you can muster.

And then…..

… When you go out there to pick a beautiful tasty bunch of tomatoes for your lunch, you notice they've got
holes in them! Something has beaten you to them

Or

… Your crisp perfect lettuce leaves are full of holes – they've been enjoyed by the
thriving snail population

Or

… You discover your corn is not doing so well – it's well, just not that healthy looking.

What Has Happened To Your Beautiful Veggie Garden? Snails can quickly chomp through
your precious veggies

All your hard work has been in vain!

You can't pick these mangled veggies and serve them up to your family!

You've not only wasted your efforts, but also the money you've shelled out for seeds, seedlings, fertiliser, soil
conditioner, stakes, etc.

You feel frustrated….. even angry!

So What Are Your Options?

OPTION 1. Spray them with expensive pest control chemicals which will kill the varmints that have decimated your
crops. Yep, this will work, BUT, the chemicals will be poisoning you and your family too. Plus chemicals leave
poisonous traces in your soil, drift with the wind and can potentially leach into your waterways and affect your
neighbours, pets, fish and wildlife.

OPTION 2. Give up and buy your veggies at the local shop. Sure, this is the easy way, but not very satisfying nor
the best answer either. Most shops sell hybrid varieties which are bred for long shelf life at the expense of flavour,
texture and taste, and who know what chemicals they've been sprayed with.

OPTION 3. Use safe home made pest remedies in conjunction with the age old practice of companion planting to
restore your garden's health and the balance of nature.

What is Companion Planting?

Well, it's absolutely fascinating. You see… some plants love each other, and others can't stand each other. A bit like
humans!

Join us on our fascinating journey of discovery into the secret social lives of your vegetable garden.

You‘ll be amazed at what‘s going on in your garden!

By paying attention to the plants that do well together, as well as those that don‘t like one another, you will find that
you are able to grow a much wider variety of plants in your veggie patch.

You will also find that it is a lot easier to control pests and reduce the incidence of disease destroying your beautiful
plants.

Discover the Secret Socialising Behaviour of Plants

Here‘s just some of the fascinating socializing ―behaviours― or activities that your plants get up to. You can put these
into place in your garden straight away….

 Trap Cropping: How to use specific plants to attract pests away from your crop
 Nitrogen Fixing: How to plant special cover crops which put nitrogen into the soil rather than take it out.
 Biochemical Pest Suppression: Discover which flowering plant oozes a chemical into the soil to repel nasty
pests that attack the roots of your tomatoes, sugar beets and soy beans.
 Insectary: How to create habitats or environments to attract beneficial predatory insects that eat the nasty
pests which devour your precious garden plants.
 Nurse Cropping: Discover which tall plants with thick foliage protect more vulnerable species by shading
them or shielding them from the wind.

Find Out Which Plants Love Each Other

Successful companion planting relies on good relationships, often between pairs. Usually one plant has the ability to
do one thing, while the other offers something else.

But sometimes it seems that certain plants simply do well together – like
cheerful children who have special playmates. For example, parsley and
asparagus generally both thrive when planted together.

Most vegetables have a handful of favourites they love to be near. For
example carrots love basil, lettuce, onions, peas, rosemary, sage and
tomatoes.

But did you know that cauliflower only has one favourite? And the same
Leeks and carrots protect each other from specific insect pests
with broad beans. They‘re pretty fussy too!

Other plants that are generally said to improve the quality of crops in the vegetable garden include elderberry trees
(which are really large shrubs), buddleia, privet, golden rod, mustard and wild rose.

What About Plants That Hate Each Other?

Plant the wrong things next to each other and you‘ll have all sorts of problems!

….. For example, forget about tomatoes and corn together. They just don‘t get on.

And there‘s one veggie plant you should never grow near any other veggie plant, and a tree which will poison
anything you plant near it.

Discover All the Different Ways You Can Control
Pests Naturally

It is in the realm of pest control that many companion plants excel. Some
attract insects that would otherwise attack other plants,and some are
attracted to trees and bushes that in turn attract birds that catch flying
insects.

Sometimes two different plants are able to repel different unwanted
insects from each other – so they work in harmony together. See the
example at left about how bush beans and potatoes work together.
When bush beans are planted with potatoes, they will protect
them from the Colorado potato beetle, one of the most destructive
bugs that attack potatoes. This is a mutually beneficial There are also many natural pesticides that you can make at home.
relationship, as the potato in turn protects the beans from the
Mexican bean beetle.
These range from soapy mixtures to wonderful brews that are made by
boiling a range of very specific plants together. They are easy to make at home – in fact you'll probably find you
already have most of the ingredients in your cupboard!

You can also buy natural products that will kill pests that attack your veggies, which is what commercial organic
farmers do.

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Remineralize your Soil ~ Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants, Healthy People
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Soil Regeneration with Volcanic Rock Dust
http://calameo.com/books/00062163120384c54b373
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Volcanic Rock Dust added to soil can double plant growth.

SoilSoup Compost Tea ~ Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants, Healthy People
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SoilSoup Compost Tea is an excellent soil builder and organic fertilizer.
Soil Soup is very easy to handle and use.

Growing Solutions ~ Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants, Healthy People
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Zing Bokashi: Recycling Organic Waste with Effective Microorganisms (EM)
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Companion Planting INCREASES Food Production by 250 Percent
One of the goals of research in South Africa is to look at ways to boost food production with the
practice of intercropping (companion planting, or growing crops together) a cereal grain crop, like
sorghum, with bean crops. We have been intercropping sorghum with legumes planted in row of zai
pits.

Why grow beans? Being legumes, bean crops can improve soils by converting nitrogen from the air
into forms that crops can use.

The crops we are working with are quite tolerant of dry conditions and produce vines that cover the
ground, protect6ing it from the intense tropical sun and creating an environments in which soil
microorganisms, can thrive.

Moreover, the legumes provide the farmer with a harvest of dried, edible beans.

What are zai holes? The zai system originated in West Africa as a way to cope with drought and hard
encrusted soil. Drought tolerant grain crops such as sorghum or millet are planted in pits about 12
inches, 6 inches deep.

With the excavated soil thrown to the downhill side, the pits act as tiny water catchment basins,
making maximum use of what little rainfall is received. Several handfuls of manure are traditionally
placed in each pit, concentrating nutrients near the crop roots.

Have we seen any benefits? The results we have so far are from year one of a sorghum-legumes
intercropping strategy within the zai system. Most of the legumes we have tried have grown very
well, but cowpea produced the most dried beans.

It increases total grain production by 1,000 kilograms (250%) from 400 kilograms per hectare
when grown sorghum alone to about 1,400 kilograms per hectare when grown together with
cowpeas.

It also increased soil nitrogen as well as nitrogen taken up by the sorghum plants.

All of this is very encouraging from the perspective of the smallholder farmer, because it means they
have a way to improve their soils while greatly increasing food production.

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NATURAL SOLUTIONS in Africa by Using Companion Planting
Across East Africa, thousands of farmers are planting weeds in their maize fields (Companion
Planting). Bizarre as it sounds, their technique is actually raising yields by giving the insect pests
something else to chew on besides maize.

It is better than pesticides and a lot cheaper, said Ziadin Khan, whose idea it is.

And it has raised farm yields by 60-70 Percents.
In East Africa, maize fields face two major pests, and Khan has a solution to both. The first is an
insect called the stem borer. True to its name, it s larvae eat their way through a third of the regions'
maize most years.

But Khan discovered that the borer in even fonder of a local weed, napier grass. By planting napier
grass in their fields , farmers can lure the stem borers away from the maize and into a honey trap. For
the grass produces a sticky substance that traps and kills stem borer larvae.

The second major pest is Striga, a parasitic plant that wrecks 10 billion dollars worth damage on
maize crops every year, threating the livelihoods of one hundred million Africans.

Weeding Striga is one of the most time consuming activities for millions of African women farmers,
says Khan.

But he has an antidote: another weed, called Desmodium. It seems to release some sort of chemical
that Striga does not like. At any rate, where farmers plant Desmodium between rows of maize, Striga
will not grow.

Khan's cheap fixes for Striga and stem borer are spreading like wildfire through the fields of East
Africa.

Trials on more than 2,000 farms are finished. It is out of our hands now, says Khan's boss Hans
Herren , who is the director of the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology in Nairobi.

The ideas are being taken up by framers in countries such as Ethiopia where we have never worked.

Khan's novel way of fighting pests is one of the host of Low-Tech Innovations boosting
production by 100 percent or more on millions of poor Thirds World farms in the past
decade.

This Sustainable Agriculture just happens to be the biggest movement in Third World Farming
today, dwarfing the tentative forays in genetic manipulation. It seems peasant farmers have a long
way to go before they exhaust the possibilities of traditional agriculture

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COMPANION PLANTING BOOKS
(Intercropping Gardening, Mixed Vegetables Gardening, Polycultures Gardening):

Carrots Love Tomatoes and Roses Love Garlic: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful
Gardening; by Louise Riotte
http://www.librarything.com/work/141405
http://books.google.com/books?id=MtFvQnYDy_sC
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37688263 bookfinder.com addall.com booksprice.com

A-Z of Companion Planting; by Pamela Allardice
http://books.google.com/books?id=OD4iHQAACAAJ

A Crash Course on Companion Planting; by Ralph Cummings
~ Nook book allbookstores.com bing.com bookfinder.com yahoo.com

Bob's Basics Companion Planting; by Bob Flowerdew
http://books.google.com/books?id=LyWr_nVIKNYC

Biological Pest Control, including: Bird, Bacillus Thuringiensis, Predation, Companion Planting,
Disease Resistance In Fruit And Vegetables, Biocide, Parasitoid, Pyrethrum, Beetle Bank, Scoliidae,
Pyrethrin, Fire Ant, Integrated Pest Management, Tansy; by Hephaestus Books
http://books.google.com/books?id=OGmQSQAACAAJ

Companion Gardening in New Zealand: Working with Mother Nature; by Judith Collins
http://books.google.com/books?id=gvJIHQAACAAJ

Companion Planting; by Jeannine Davidoff - South African Organic Gardener
http://www.blurb.com http://www.yahoo.com http://www.google.com

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Companion Planting; by Margaret Roberts
http://books.google.com/books?id=U4FZAAAACAAJ
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/139975988

Companion Planting; by Richard Bird
http://books.google.com/books?id=5xsGAAAACAAJ

Companion Planting and Intensive Cultivation; by Nancy Lee Maffia
http://books.google.com/books?id=cQfatgAACAAJ

Companion Planting Boost Your Garden's Health, Secure It From Pests And Grow More Vegetables ;
by Ephraim Acre http://www.amazon.co.uk http://www.dealzilla.co.uk
~ Kindle book allbookstores.com bing.com bookfinder.com yahoo.com

Companion Planting for Australian Gardens; by Kelly Morris
http://books.google.com/books?id=OXicOO4HMFUC

Companion Planting For Beginners; by Wendi Eaton

Companion Planting for Successful Gardening; by Louise Riotte

Companion Planting for Veggies; by Annette Welsford
http://www.companionplantingguide.com http://www.librarything.com/work/8981096

Companion Planting Guide; by Julie Villani

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Companion Planting In Australia; by Brenda Little
http://books.google.com/books?id=WcV0PQAACAAJ

Companion Planting in New Zealand; by Brenda Little
http://books.google.com/books?id=y0EtOAAACAAJ

Companion Planting Made Easy; by Editors of Organic Gardening Magazine
google.com bing.com bookfinder.com addall.com booksprice.com

Companion Planting: Successful Gardening the Organic Way; by Gertrud Franck
http://books.google.com/books?id=C7M4AQAACAAJ

Companion Plants and How to Use Them: A Guide to Planting the Right Plants to Ward off Plant
Diseases; by Helen Louise Porter Philbrick
http://books.google.com/books?id=GqyMAAAACAAJ

Complete Guide to Companion Planting: Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Garden
Successful; by Dale Mayer
http://books.google.com/books?id=32xpkvpXyvIC

Garden Companion to Native Plants. Selecting, Planting and Caring for over 400 Australian Native
Plants; by Allan Seale
http://books.google.com/books?id=mW_gPAAACAAJ

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Good Companions: A Guide to Gardening with Plants that Help Each Other; by Bob Flowerdew
http://books.google.com/books?id=AnF5qClHJqsC

Good Neighbors: Companion Planting for Gardeners; by Anna Carr
http://books.google.com/books?id=2yNIAAAAYAAJ

Great Garden Companions: A Companion-Planting System for a Beautiful, Chemical-Free Vegetable
Garden; by Sally Jean Cunningham
http://books.google.com/books?id=bYOPlJt6SfAC

Growing Together: the A to Z of Companion Planting; by Susan Tomnay
http://books.google.com/books?id=zJafPQAACAAJ

How to Grow World Record Tomatoes: a Guinness World Record Holder, Reveals His
All-Organic Secrets. His organic methods work with other crops; by Charles Wilber
http://librarything.com/work/1752882
http://books.google.com/books?id=hQdIAAAAYAAJ
http://worldcat.org/oclc/40948283 bookfinder.com addall.com booksprice.com

Intercropping: A Step Towards Sustainability; by Haseeb ur Rehman
http://books.google.com/books?id=0a8RTwEACAAJ

Jackie French's Guide to Companion Planting in Australia and New Zealand; by Jackie French
http://books.google.com/books?id=aAvWAAAACAAJ

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List of Companion Plants; by Frederic P Miller
http://www.alibris.com
http://books.google.com/books?id=y1EzygAACAAJ

My Garden Companion: A Complete Guide for the Beginner, With a Special Emphasis on Useful
Plants and Intensive Planting in the Wayside, Dooryard, Patio, Rooftop, and Vacant Lot ; by Jamie
Jobb
http://books.google.com/books?id=MbhFAAAAYAAJ

Organic Gardening Books, Eco Farming Books, DVD's, Newsletter and Much More
http://www.acresusa.com

Planting The Future: Saving Our Medicinal Herbs; by Rosemary Gladstar
http://books.google.com/books?id=ndk42wxMBzUC

Primer of Companion Planting: Herbs and Their Part in Good Gardening ; by Richard B. Gregg
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZtXIMAEACAAJ

Principles and Practice of Plant Conservation; by David R. Given
http://books.google.com/books?id=tHvwAAAAMAAJ

Rodale's Successful Organic Gardening: Companion Planting; by Susan McClure
http://books.google.com/books?id=nRdVNgAACAAJ

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Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture; by Elizabeth Henderson
librarything.com/4557502 books.google.com/13sDbCIz0ooC worldcat.org/oclc/144328213
http://localharvest.org

Secrets of Companion Planting: Plants That Help, Plants That Hurt; by Brenda Little
http://books.google.com/books?id=byjoAAAACAAJ

Soil Mates: Companion Plants for Your Vegetable Garden; by Sara Alway
http://books.google.com/books?id=TV_wRQAACAAJ

South African Planting and Companion Planting Guide; by Jeannine Davidoff

Sustainable Gardening, including: Raised Bed Gardening, Energy-efficient Landscaping,
Permaculture, Masanobu Fukuoka, Companion Planting, Biological Pest Control, Leaf Mold, Spent
Mushroom Compost, Green Roof, Agroecology, Wildlife Garden, Mulch; by Hephaestus Books
http://books.google.com/books?id=qhaLtgAACAAJ

Tending The Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural
Resources; by M. Kat Anderson
http://books.google.com/books?id=WM--vVFtnvkC

The A-Z of Companion Planting; by Jayne Neville
http://books.google.com/books?id=f80bQwAACAAJ

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The Best Gardening Ideas I Know: Foolproof way to start any seed, Compost piles that work,
Practical companion planting, More vegetables in less space, Succession planting chart, Natural
weed controls, Mulching with weeds, Midsummer feeding; by Robert Rodale
http://books.google.com/books?id=H3esPwAACAAJ

Climate Change, Intercropping, Pest Control and Beneficial Microorganisms ; by Eric Lichtfouse
http://books.google.com/books?id=RNsyKTwTfgY

Intercropping And The Scientific Basis Of Traditional Agriculture; by Donald Quayle Innis
http://books.google.com/books?id=pPk4AQAAIAAJ

The Complete Book of Herbs: A Practical Guide to Cultivating, Drying, and Cooking With More
Than 50 Herbs; by Emma Callery
http://books.google.com/books?id=GehUsea2PqcC

The Complete Guide to Companion Planting: Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Garden
Successful; by Dale Mayer
http://books.google.com/books?id=32xpkvpXyvIC

The Cook and the Gardener: A Year of Recipes and Writings for the French Countryside; by Amanda
Hesser
http://books.google.com/books?id=7mYoAAAACAAJ

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The Ecology of Intercropping; by John H. Vandermeer
http://books.google.com/books?id=CvyyTVq_o70C

The Huge Book of Organic Gardening and Companion Planting; by Billie Rex
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZuKIZwEACAAJ

The Natural Garden: A New Zealander's Guide to Companion Gardening, Natural Pest Control and
Soil Health; by Michael Crooks
http://books.google.com/books?id=0oS6AQAACAAJ

Your Backyard Herb Garden: A Gardener's Guide to Growing Over 50 Herbs Plus How to Use Them
in Cooking, Crafts, Companion Planting and More; by Miranda Smith
http://books.google.com/books?id=Zxxm0awYC3QC
http://www.worldcat.or/oclc/34722846 bookfinder.com addall.com booksprice.com

SWAP your Books with Other People
http://www.scribd.com/doc/81071919
http://www.calameo.com/books/00115999712e89ac6bda5

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ORGANIC GARDENING TECHNOLOGIES
INCREASING Plant Yields by over 400
PERCENT
http://www.scribd.com/doc/75160339
http://www.calameo.com/books/0010511867e619fa5b018

Remineralize your Soil ~ Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants, Healthy People
http://remineralize.org

Soil Regeneration with Volcanic Rock Dust
http://calameo.com/books/00062163120384c54b373
http://scribd.com/doc/30402511
Volcanic Rock Dust added to soil can double plant or lawn growth.

Compost Tea Making: For Organic Healthier Vegetables, Flowers, Orchards, Vineyards, Lawns; by
Marc Remillard
librarything.com/11197572 books.google.com/PZHObwAACAAJ worldcat.org/oclc/744677817

A Worm Tea Primer: how to make and use worm tea for a vibrant organic garden; by Cassandra
Truax
http://vermico.com

SoilSoup Compost Tea ~ Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants, Healthy People
http://soilsoup.com
SoilSoup Compost Tea is an excellent soil builder and organic fertilizer.
Soil Soup is very easy to handle and use.

Growing Solutions ~ Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants, Healthy People
http://www.growingsolutions.com

Zing Bokashi: Recycling Organic Waste with Effective Microorganisms (EM)
http://www.zingbokashi.co.nz

An Earth Saving Revolution (Volume 2) EM: Amazing Applications to Agricultural,
Environmental, and Medical Problems; by Dr. Teruo Higa ~ EM = Effective Microorganism
http://books.google.com/books?id=drOMQQAACAAJ

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ORGANIC GARDENING and Eco Gardening
~ Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants, Healthy People

Advanced Aeroponics; by Chad Peterson

20 Best Small Gardens: Innovative Designs for every Site and Situation ; by Tim Newbury
http://books.google.com/books?id=2i2qQgAACAAJ

101 Ideas for Veg from Small Spaces: Delicious Crops from Tiny Plots; by Jane Moore
http://books.google.com/books?id=VcYUOgAACAAJ

101 Organic Gardening Tips; by Sheri Ann Richerson
http://books.google.com/books?id=UDI-YgEACAAJ

300 of the Most Asked Questions About Organic Gardening; by Charles Gerras; Rodale Organic
Gardening Magazine
http://books.google.com/books?id=94VFAQAAIAAJ

365 Down-To-Earth Gardening Hints and Tips; by Susan McClure
http://books.google.com/books?id=EvJL7JsrCq8C

1,001 Old-Time Garden Tips: Timeless Bits of Wisdom on How to Grow Everything Organically,
from the Good Old Days When Everyone Did; by Roger Yepsen
http://books.google.com/books?id=UzQHAAAACAAJ

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A Beginners Guide to Organic Vegetable Gardening: Introduction to Composting, Worm Farming,
No Dig Raised and Wicking Gardens Plus More; by Mel Jeffreys

A Brief Guide to Organic Gardening; by Irish Seed Savers Association
http://www.irishseedsavers.ie
http://www.google.com http://www.bing.com

A Child's Organic Garden: Grow Your Own Delicious Nutritious Foods, Australia; by Lee Fryer
http://books.google.com/books?id=QFPfAQAACAAJ

A Guide to Organic Gardening in Australia; by Michael J. Roads
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZNGaAQAACAAJ

A Patch of Eden: America's Inner-City Gardeners; by H. Patricia Hynes
http://books.google.com/books?id=QqBHAAAAMAAJ

A Treatise on the Management of Peach and Nectarine Trees: Either in Forcing-Houses, or on Hot
and Common Walls. Containing an Effectual and Easy Process for Preventing Them from Being
Infected with Any Species of Insects; by Thomas Kyle
http://books.google.com/books?id=kTREAAAAYAAJ
http://www.echobooks.org

A Year on the Garden Path: A 52-Week Organic Gardening Guide; by Carolyn Herriot
http://books.google.com/books?id=5y9VYgEACAAJ

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Adobe and Rammed Earth Buildings: Design and Construction; by Paul G. McHenry
http://books.google.com/books?id=q4GU71IMn3kC

Advanced Organic Gardening (Rodale's Grow-It Guides); by Anna Carr
http://books.google.com/books?id=nhrSAAAACAAJ

Advancing Biological Farming: Practicing Mineralized, Balanced Agriculture to Improve Soils and
Crops; by Gary F. Zimmer
http://books.google.com/books?id=nifUZwEACAAJ

Agriculture in the City: A Key to Sustainability in Havana, Cuba; by Maria Caridad Cruz
http://books.google.com/books?id=qySx0yq9Jd4C

Agricultural Options of the Poor: A Handbook for Those Who Serve Them; by Timothy N. Motts
http://www.echobooks.org http://www.google.com http://www.bing.com

All-Time Best Gardening Secrets; by the Editors of Organic Gardening Magazine
http://books.google.com/books?id=jpFHYAAACAAJ

Allergy-Free Gardening: The Revolutionary Guide to Healthy Landscaping; by Thomas Leo Ogren
http://books.google.com/books?id=UnAlAQAAMAAJ

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Allotment Gardening: An Organic Guide For Beginners; by Susan Berger, the Organic Centre, Ireland
http://books.google.com/books?id=gtlYoks42I4C

Alternatives to Peat; by Pauline Pears
http://books.google.com/books?id=O6KaXwAACAAJ

Amaranth to Zai Holes: Ideas for Growing Food Under Difficult Conditions; by Laura S. Meitzner
http://books.google.com/books?id=__RHAAAAYAAJ

An Earth Saving Revolution (Volume 2) EM: Amazing Applications to Agricultural,
Environmental, and Medical Problems; by Dr. Teruo Higa ~ EM = Effective Microorganism
http://books.google.com/books?id=drOMQQAACAAJ

Any Size, Anywhere Edible Gardening: The No Yard, No Time, No Problem Way to Grow Your
Own Food; by William Moss
http://books.google.com/books?id=G2D8TmIR_agC
~ Kindle book ~ Nook book allbookstores.com bing.com bookfinder.com

Anything Grows: Ingenious Ways To Grow More Food In Front Yards, Backyards, Side Yards, In
The Suburbs, In The City, On Rooftops, Even Parking Lots; by Sheryl London
http://books.google.com/books?id=je44AQAAIAAJ

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Apartment Gardening: Plants, Projects, and Recipes for Growing Food in Your Urban Home; by
Amy Pennington
librarything.com/11367320 books.google.com/UNa9bwAACAAJ worldcat.org/oclc/759838812

Aquaponic Gardening: A Step-By-Step Guide to Raising Vegetables; by Sylvia Bernstein
http://books.google.com/books?isbn=1550924893

Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation; by Sharon Gamson Danks
http://books.google.com/books?id=GzhxmxBsn5oC

Attracting Native Pollinators: The Xerces Society Guide Protecting North America's Bees and
Butterflies
http://books.google.com/books?id=iTwPEDL3nvMC

Australia and New Zealand Guide to Compost Gardening: A Guide to Gardening Without Digging:
by David Hornblow
http://books.google.com/books?id=QyanAQAACAAJ

Backyard Farming: Growing Your Own Fresh Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs in a Small Space; by Lee
Foster
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZINjAAAACAAJ

Back to Eden; by Jethro Kloss - he was curing cancer in the 1930's
librarything.com/86035 books.google.com/blIQgUVUy_8C worldcat.org/28157353

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Backyard Organic Gardening in Australia; by Brenda Little
http://books.google.com/books?id=KpGlYgEACAAJ

Backyard Bounty: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Organic Gardening in the Pacific Northwest;
by Linda A Gilkeson
http://books.google.com/books?id=xSOTCeV_m4gC
~ Kindle book ~ Nook book bookfinder.com addall.com booksprice.com

Balcony Gardening : Growing Herbs and Vegetables in a Small Urban Space; by Jeff Haase
http://books.google.com/books?id=DrJ-lwEACAAJ

Basic Book of Cloche and Frame Gardening; by W E Shewell-Cooper
http://books.google.com/books?id=YYmbAAAACAAJ

Basic Book of Natural Gardening; by Wilfred Edward Shewell-Cooper
http://books.google.com/books?id=oqTpRwAACAAJ

Basic Vegetable Gardening: Small-Scale Vegetable Production in Tropical Climates; by E.D. Adams
http://www.google.com
http://www.bing.com

Best Ideas for Organic Vegetable Growing; by Glenn F. Johns
http://books.google.com/books?id=p_V-ntrP768C

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Best Methods for Growing Fruits and Berries; by Rodale Organic Gardening Magazine
http://books.google.com/books?id=SFwrlAEACAAJ

Better Vegetable Gardens the Chinese Way: Peter Chan's Raised-Bed System; by Peter Chan
http://books.google.com/books?id=TVsjAQAAMAAJ

Bible Plants for American Gardens; by Eleanor Anthony King
http://books.google.com/books?id=M1FfDLxT_DoC

Big Ideas for Northwest Small Gardens; by Marty Wingate
http://books.google.com/books?id=66yNsFIpGNoC

Biodynamics for the Home Garden, New Zealand; by Peter Proctor
http://books.google.com/books?id=NQtlLwEACAAJ

Biofertilizers for Sustainable Agriculture; by Arun K. Sharma
http://books.google.com/books?id=d7WOAAAACAAJ

Biological Transmutations; by C. Louis Kervran
http://books.google.com/books?id=FFoGAAAACAAJ

Bioshelter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm; by Darrell Frey
librarything.com/10703491 books.google.com/Vx8enVBW5jwC worldcat.org/oclc/601130383

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Botanica's Organic Gardening: The Healthy Way to Live and Grow; by Judyth McLeond.
http://books.google.com/books?id=5N1yjCNM8fIC

Breaking Through Concrete: Building an Urban Farm Revival; by David Hanson
http://books.google.com/books?id=pW1r0u95OLEC

Building and Using Cold Frames; by Charles Siegchrist
http://books.google.com/books?id=_YZgFQ4fwSUC

Building Soils Naturally: Innovative Methods for Organic Gardeners; by Phil Nauta
http://books.google.com/books?id=aJdtMAEACAAJ

Building With Cob: A Step-by-step Guide; by Adam Weismann
http://books.google.com/books?id=ri45AQAAIAAJ
~ Kindle book allbookstores.com bing.com bookfinder.com

Bush-Fruits: A Horticultural Monograph of Raspberries, Blackberries, Dewberries, Currants,
Gooseberries, and Other Shrub-Like Fruits; by Fred W. Card
http://books.google.com/books?id=NHP3f3W2hH0C

Charles Dowding's Vegetable Course; by Charles Dowding
http://books.google.com/books?id=IPeNZwEACAAJ

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Chico's Organic Gardening and Natural Living; by Frank Bucaro
http://books.google.com/books?id=G9axOAAACAAJ

City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America; by Laura J. Lawson
http://books.google.com/books?id=lgopAQAAMAAJ

City People's Book of Raising Food; by Helga Olkowski
http://books.google.com/books?id=t04WPwAACAAJ

City Permaculture, Volume 1: Sustainable Living in Small Spaces; by Earth Garden Publication
http://www.bing.com

City Permaculture, Volume 2; by Earth Garden Publication
http://www.bing.com

Clay Soil Gardening - Australasian Edition; by Michael Carr

Cold-Climate Gardening; by Lewis Hill
http://books.google.com/books?id=YYac91iUGr8C

Comfrey: Fodder, Food and Remedy, United Kingdom; by Lawrence Donegan Hills
http://books.google.com/books?id=VfQ4AQAAIAAJ

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Comfrey Report: The Story of the World's Fastest Protein Builder and Herbal Healer; by Lawrence D.
Hills
http://books.google.com/books?id=BGc4RAAACAAJ

Commonsense Gardening in Australia: Organic Growing for All Gardeners ; by Panorama Books
http://books.google.com/books?id=MtkAuAAACAAJ

Common Sense Organic Gardening; by Warner Fremont Bower

Community Gardening, New Zealand; by Stephen Trinder
http://books.google.com/books?id=WYrpLQAACAAJ

Complete Organic Gardening: A Comprehensive Guide to Better Gardening and Increased Self
Sufficiency; by Jonathan Sturm
http://books.google.com/books?id=pFsAAQAACAAJ

Compost and Mulch Gardening; by Rodale Organic Gardening Magazine
http://books.google.com/books?id=0lrWAAAAMAAJ

Compost Gardening: A New Time-Saving System for More Flavorful Vegetables, Bountiful Blooms,
and the Richest Soil You've Ever Seen; by by Wilfred Edward Shewell-Cooper
http://books.google.com/books?id=oHJlNQAACAAJ

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Compost, Vermicompost, and Compost Tea; by Grace Gershuny
http://books.google.com/books?id=Xub8aChfFsIC

Composting: The Ultimate Organic Guide to Recycling Your Garden, Australia; by Tim Marshall
http://books.google.com/books?id=lGpz4mFf6-QC

Composting for Manure Management; by The Staff of BioCycle
http://books.google.com/books?id=U44dAQAAMAAJ

Composting Inside And Out: The Comprehensive Guide To Reusing Trash, Saving Money And
Enjoying The Benefits Of Organic Gardening; by Stephanie Davies
http://books.google.com/books?id=ITTfPbwXyNkC

Country Wisdom and Know-How: Everything You Need To Know to Live Off the Land; by Storey
Publishing
http://books.google.com/books?id=x1wezh3aP34C

Contour Farming with Living Barriers; by World Neighbors
http://books.google.com/books?id=5sXdlAEACAAJ

Converting to Organic Farming; by Nicolas Lampkin
http://books.google.com/books?id=CPZHAAAAYAAJ

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Converting to Organic Farming; by David Younie
http://books.google.com/books?id=1844MwEACAAJ

Converting to Organic Farming; by Hartmut Vogtmann

Creative Sustainable Gardening for the Twenty-First Century, New Zealand; by Diana Anthony

Creative Vegetable Gardening; by Joy Larkcom
http://books.google.com/books?id=lrk9PgAACAAJ

Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping: Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm; by Seth Kroeck
http://books.google.com/books?id=vp5xYRVkIzAC

Cultivating Community: Principles and Practices for Community Gardening as a Community-
Building Tool; by Karen Payne
http://books.google.com/books?id=1ELkGwAACAAJ

Desert Gardening for Beginners: How to Grow Vegetables, Flowers and Herbs in an Arid Climate; by
Cathy Cromell
http://books.google.com/books?id=zrINAAAACAAJ

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Desert Gardening: Fruits and Vegetables; by George Brookbank
http://books.google.com/books?id=Fmzr1uGU4jkC

Desert Harvest: A Guide to Vegetable Gardening in Arid Lands; by Jane Nyhuis
http://books.google.com/books?id=AVdYpwAACAAJ

Digging Deeper: Integrating Youth Gardens into Schools and Communities, A Comprehensive
Guide; by Joseph Kiefer
http://books.google.com/books?id=Hu_ZAAAACAAJ

Don't Throw It, Grow It: 68 Windowsill Plants From Kitchen Scraps; by Millicent Selsam
http://books.google.com/books?id=71kCTjFilNMC
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Down to Earth: The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Growing Organic Vegetables, New Zealand; by
David Prosser
http://books.google.com/books?id=g9K1PQAACAAJ

Dr. Shewell-Cooper's Basic Book of Fruit Growing, United Kingdom; by Wilfred Edward Shewell-
Cooper
http://books.google.com/books?id=3G2ZPAAACAAJ

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Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and All Climates: Helping Your Garden Flourish, While
Conserving Water; by Robert Kourik
http://books.google.com/books?id=pj5_AAAACAAJ

Earthbag Building: The Tools, Tricks and Techniques; by Kaki Hunter
http://books.google.com/books?id=5TLCbGmcGLUC

Easy Garden Projects to Make, Build, and Grow: 200 Do-It-Yourself Ideas to Help You Grow Your
Best Garden Ever, by Barbara Pleasant
http://books.google.com/books?id=y9GpDTUwG4kC

Easy Organic Gardening and Moon Planting; Lyn Bagnall
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZTgmRxGxb-0C

Eat More Dirt: Diverting and Instructive Tips for Growing and Tending an Organic Garden; by Ellen
Sandbeck
http://books.google.com/books?id=9L-bI_M_WskC

Eat the Weeds; by Ben Charles Harris
http://books.google.com/books?id=tB1FAAAAYAAJ

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Eat Your Garden: Organic Gardening for Home and Schools; Leonie Shanahan
http://books.google.com/books?id=VwGJSQAACAAJ

ECHO Appropriate Technologies Book; by ECHO

Eco-Farm, An Acres U.S.A. Primer: The definitive guide to managing farm and ranch soil fertility,
crops, fertilizers, weeds and insects while avoiding dangerous chemicals; by Jr. Charles Walters
librarything.com/326739 books.google.com/hKodAQAAMAAJ worldcat.org/oclc/35908160

Ecological Gardening: Your Path to a Healthy Garden; by Marjorie Harris
http://books.google.com/books?id=T0jLCKrsV8AC

Edible Flower Garden; by Rosalind Creasy
http://books.google.com/books?id=AwGJVW948mwC

Edible Flowers Hydroponic Kit; by Institue of Simplified Hydroponics
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Edible Forest Gardens; by Dave Jacke
http://books.google.com/books?id=s_vwAAAAMAAJ

Edible Landscaping in the Desert Southwest: Wheelbarrow to Plate; by Catherine Crowley
http://books.google.com/books?id=uDio8-sC2wMC

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Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening; by Pauline Pears, UK Garden Organic, Henry Doubleday
Research Assoc.
http://books.google.com/books?id=WywrPQAACAAJ

Enhanced Composting for Cold-Climate Biodegradation of Organic Contaminated in Soil; by James
D. Berg
http://books.google.com/books?id=9H9sHAAACAAJ

Essiac: A Native Herbal Cancer Remedy; by Cynthia B. Olsen
http://books.google.com/books?id=XdaoKpyNqjwC
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Extreme Gardening: How To Grow Organic In The Hostile Deserts; by David Owens
http://books.google.com/books?id=G2ANAAAACAAJ
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Fall and Winter Gardening: 25 Organic Vegetables to Plant and Grow for Late Season Food; by R.J.
Ruppenthal
http://books.google.com/books?id=cBO7MQEACAAJ

Fall and Winter Vegetable Gardening in the Pacific Northwest; by Oregon State University
http://books.google.com/books?id=plp1NwAACAAJ

Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer; by Novella Carpenter
librarything.com/11480723 books.google.com/KqUVJLLDJbQC worldcat.org/oclc/276819186

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Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan; by F. H. King
http://books.google.com/books?id=5IFxU_UP1l0C

Farming God's Way, Trainer's Reference Guide; by Grant W. Dryden
http://www.bing.com

Feed Me Right: Nutritional Know-How and Body Science; by Dee Pigneguy
http://books.google.com/books?id=KLCjPQAACAAJ

Feed Me Right Teacher's Resource: Nutritional Know-How and Body Science; by Dee Pigneguy
http://www.bing.com

Fertility without Fertilizers: A Basic Approach to Organic Garden; by Lawrence D. Hills
http://books.google.com/books?id=4_4JAQAAMAAJ

Fletcher Sims' Compost; by Charles Walters
http://books.google.com/books?id=wo0UAQAAMAAJ

Food, Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a
Community; by Heather Coburn Flores
http://librarything.com/work/1658215
http://books.google.com/books?id=M_DtwznYASwC

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Food From Dryland Gardens: An Ecological, Nutritional, and Social Approach to Small-Scale
Household Food Production; by David Arthur Cleveland
http://books.google.com/books?id=1a8QAQAAMAAJ

Food Growing without Poisons; by Meta Strandberg
http://books.google.com/books?id=kMqCAAAACAAJ

Foods Jesus Ate and How to Grow Them; by Allan A. Swenson
http://books.google.com/books?id=Nx1GPwGTqz0C

Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long; by Eliot Coleman
http://books.google.com/books?id=QMHdDgkRjDkC

Fresh Food from Small Gardens, United Kingdom; by Brian George Furner
http://books.google.com/books?id=fq3aAAAACAAJ

Fresh Food from Small Spaces; by R.J. Ruppenthal
librarything.com/6347778 books.google.com/OPQXAfANf08 worldcat.org/oclc/225871288

Fresh Start Kit for Simple Hydroponics; by Institue of Simplified Hydroponics
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Fruit and Vegetables for Scotland: What to Grow and How to Grow It; by Kenneth Cox
http://books.google.com/books?id=iyWUtgAACAAJ

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Fruits and Vegetables Under Glass; Apples, Apricots, Cherries, Figs, Grapes, Melons, Peaches and
Nectarines, Pears, Pineapples, Plums, Strawberries; by William Turner
http://books.google.com/books?id=E8_UygAACAAJ

Fruit for Australian Gardens: A Practical Guide to Growing Fruit at Home, Organic Methods
Included; by Paul Baxter
http://books.google.com/books?id=Ls4bAAAACAAJ

Fruits of Warm Climates; by Julia Frances Morton
http://books.google.com/books?id=pCgmAQAAMAAJ

Fruit Trees in Small Spaces: Abundant Harvests from Your Own Backyard ; by Colby Eierman
http://books.google.com/books?id=GbPHdcCktHYC

Gaia's Garden: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture; by Toby Hemenway
http://books.google.com/books?id=gxW0MGXha6cC

Garden Anywhere: How to Grow Gorgeous Container Gardens, Herb Gardens, Kitchen Gardens; by
Alys Fowler
http://books.google.com/books?id=JYD9OQAACAAJ

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Garden My Heart: Organic Strategies for Backyard Sustainability; by Cecil Bothwell
http://books.google.com/books?id=alAtXrP8EAcC

Garden Wisdom and Know-How: Everything You Need to Know to Plant, Grow, and Harvest; by
Editors of Rodale Books
http://books.google.com/books?id=0vDd6X4pnY0C

Gardening Answers (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin, Vol. A-49); by Storey Publishing
http://books.google.com/books?id=reAlzkJrLvwC

Gardening by the Foot: Mini Grow-Boxes for Maxi Yields; by Jacob R. Mittleider
http://books.google.com/books?id=GNFNewAACAAJ

Gardening Down-Under: A Guide to Healthier Soils and Plants; by Kevin Handreck
http://books.google.com/books?id=NFdY04HS9oEC

Gardening for Health and Nutrition; by John Philbrick
http://books.google.com/books?id=86Y6qCo8-tAC

Gardening for Planet Earth, New Zealand; by Dee Pigneguy
http://books.google.com/books?id=I-zjQgAACAAJ

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Gardening for the Faint of Heart; by Robin Wheeler, Canadian Organic Growers
http://books.google.com/books?id=M5zEPQAACAAJ

Gardening in Clay Soil; by Sara Pitzer
http://books.google.com/books?id=HbODYMQNELIC

Gardening Naturally: Getting The Most from Your Organic Garden, Australia; by Ann Reilly
http://books.google.com/books?id=U2PsiASpd7IC

Gardening the Organic Way: A Central Minnesota Truck Gardener Offers Ideas and Observations ; by
David J. Schonberg
http://www.bing.com

Gardening Under Cover: A Northwest Guide to Solar Greenhouses, Cold Frames, and Cloches; by
William Head
http://books.google.com/books?id=CQhleOXhivgC

Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times; by Steve Solomon
http://books.google.com/books?id=lbohaJCxFnAC

Gardening with Cloches, United Kingdom; by Louis N Flawn
http://books.google.com/books?id=aFtCAAAAYAAJ

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Gardening with Earthworms: A Manual for New Zealanders; by John Stemmer
http://books.google.com/books?id=xbHtXwAACAAJ

Gardening with Green Manures; by Pauline M. Pears
http://books.google.com/books?id=vtYfMgAACAAJ

Gardening With SPROUTS: A How-to Guide to Understanding Organic Gardening and Design; by
Daniel A Atlas
http://books.google.com/books?id=jgRMWNzvU3gC

Gardening without Peat: The Friends of the Earth Guide to Peat Alternatives ; by Graham Howell
http://books.google.com/books?id=ID8cAAAACAAJ

Gardening Without Chemicals: Grow Untreated Natural Vegetables And Fresh Garden Produce All
Year Round In Your Own Organic Garden Using These Homemade Recipes For Organic Fertilizer
And Natural Pesticides; by Henry Q. Wilson

Gardener to Gardener: 1,001 Greatest Gardening Tips Ever, the Best Hints and Techniques from the
Pages of Organic Magazine
http://books.google.com/books?id=kpoicRF6CrAC

Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World; by Alan Weisman
http://books.google.com/books?id=vWR_LQys4hsC

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Getting the Most from Your Garden: Using Advanced Intensive Gardening Techniques; by Dan
Wallace, Rodale Organic Gardening Magazine
http://books.google.com/books?id=rsP2AAAACAAJ

Getting Started in Permaculture: 50 Practical Projects to Build and Design Productive Gardens ; by
Ross Mars
http://books.google.com/books?id=0WUUHVpMSoEC

Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco
Bay Area and Coastal California; by Pam Peirce
http://books.google.com/books?id=TFv2PwAACAAJ

Great Garden Gadgets: Make-It-Yourself Gizmos and Projects; by Fern Marshall Bradley
http://books.google.com/books?id=0875969984

Green Harvest: A History of Organic Farming and Gardening in Australia; by Rebecca Jones
http://books.google.com/books?id=fXlumxpqbeUC

Greenhouses, Cloches and Frames; by Peter McHoy
http://books.google.com/books?id=aV0lAQAAMAAJ

Greenhouse Gardener's Companion; by Shane Smith
http://books.google.com/books?id=Onv60-c6iEIC

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Greening of the Revolution: Cuba's Experiment with Organic Agriculture; by Peter Rossett
http://books.google.ca/books?id=JP9gAAAAMAAJ

Grow Anything Anywhere with the Garden Doctor; by Jacob R. Mittleider
http://books.google.com/books?id=5w9HAAAAYAAJ

Grow Fruit Naturally: A Hands-On Guide to Luscious, Homegrown Fruit; by Lee Reich
http://books.google.com/books?id=sQCIb5cMAHgC

Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces; by Gayla Trail
http://books.google.com/books?id=qXpkPgAACAAJ

Grow It, Eat it: Simple Gardening Projects and Delicious Recipes; by Royal Horticultural Society
http://books.google.com/books?id=kWQZfEXECj4C

Grow Organic: Fruit and Vegetables Fresh from Your Garden; by Nick Hamilton
http://books.google.com/books?id=q7PhFBPagggC

Grow Organic: A Simple Guide to Nova Scotia Vegetable Gardening; by Elizabeth Peirce
http://books.google.com/books?id=p7QZQwAACAAJ

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Grow Organic, Cook Organic: Natural Food From Garden to Table, with Over 1700 Photographs ; by
Ysanne Spevack
http://books.google.com/books?id=HONoAAAACAAJ

Grow Organic, Eat Organic: A Practical Activity Book for Beginners; by Lone Morton
http://books.google.com/books?id=6GzTAAAACAAJ

Grow Organic, Eat Organic: Creative Activities; by Susan Martineau
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Grow Your Food for Free (well almost); by Dave Hamilton
http://books.google.com/books?id=6j23cQAACAAJ

Grow Your Own: Be an Organic Farmer, Grow Vegetables in Your Back Garden, United Kingdom;
Thompson Yardley
http://books.google.com/books?id=4k9CAQAACAAJ

Grow Your Own Pizza: Gardening Plans and Recipes for Kids; by Constance Hardesty
http://books.google.com/books?id=FrreSip51z8C

Grow Your Own Vegetables; by Joy Larkcom
http://books.google.com/books?id=Z1YzE5QU7gEC

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