If you forget this thing when growing vegetables, diseases and pests threaten
Created: 06/10/2022, 14:52
By: Franziska Kaindl
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In order for your vegetables to grow strongly in the bed and be spared from diseases, you have to resort to certain tricks: mixed culture is the keyword here.
Every hobby gardener has heard of mixed cultivation before, but have you ever looked into it more closely?
With this age-old method of gardening, you protect your vegetables from pests and diseases, while also keeping the soil fresher for longer.
Growing mixed crops: how does it work?
Put very simply, intercropping means that
the right types of vegetables should be grown side by side
.
24garten.de* also reveals how to plan a mixed culture.
Because certain types of vegetables go better together than others - this is due to their
different needs and properties
, which complement each other or do not get in the way.
In this way, the vegetables can draw a wide variety of nutrients from the soil without taking any of them away from each other.
At the same time, the nutrients in the soil remain balanced.
In mixed cultures, you not only avoid plants competing for nutrients, you even ensure that they strengthen each other.
With the help of scents, they drive away predators, for example, as the German Nature Conservation Union (NABU) writes.
This is the case, for example, with the combination of lettuce and fennel as well as potatoes and marigolds.
Also interesting
: Tomato shoots should really be removed at this point.
Mixed culture: You should not grow these plants next to each other
Now, of course, the question arises as to how best to remember which plants go together and which do not.
You can remember it based on their plant genera:
Plants of one genus usually do not get along with each other because they have the same nutrient requirements
.
Here you will find a list of the most common plant genera and their representatives that you should not plant next to each other.
Nightshade family
: tomatoes, potatoes, aubergines, peppers
Asteraceae
: iceberg lettuce, lettuce, endive
Cruciferous vegetables
: horseradish, cauliflower, mustard
Umbellifers
: celery, fennel, carrot
Leeks : garlic, onions,
leeks
Legumes
: beans, peas
You can find out here which plant neighbors are particularly harmful to the tomatoes.
Which types of vegetables are allowed together in a mixed culture?
One gives a little reminder to find out which types of vegetables go together: mostly those plants that also taste good together on the dinner plate, as the online portal Gartenlexikon writes.
Examples are:
cucumbers and dill
tomatoes and basil
beans and savory
But even types of vegetables that don't go together at first glance can be good neighbors.
These include
strawberries and garlic
: the latter prevents gray mold attacks on the strawberries.
Chives and carrots
also work well because the carrots protect against carrot fly infestation.
Below we have listed more examples of
vegetable plants including good neighbors
for you:
Beans
get along with strawberries, cucumbers, cabbage, kohlrabi, potatoes, radishes, celery, tomatoes.
Cucumbers
with peas, fennel, beans, leeks, celery, onions, cabbage
Carrots
with radishes, radishes, tomatoes, peas, leeks, onions
Potatoes
with spinach and broad beans
Tomatoes
with French beans, peppers, parsley, kohlrabi, cabbage, celery, spinach, zucchini
Spinach
with strawberries, potatoes, radishes, rhubarb, tomatoes, cabbage, kohlrabi
Onions
with strawberries, carrots, celery, cucumber, lamb's lettuce, zucchini
Salad
with French beans, peas, strawberries, cabbage, carrots, radishes, cucumber, beetroot, tomatoes, onions
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