"Dan" wrote in message
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I start with a chart,
http://www.google.com.au/search?as_q...filetype=p df

When you group them into families you can see that there are families that
don't like each other and there are families that are OK with most other
plants.

You can get it down to 3 or 4 groups, say red, green, blue and grey, with
red and blue being the most antagonistic to each other.

Then you write your plant names on matching colored paper squares that
corespond to the size of the plant/patch you need.

Once you have that worked out you can start laying out the plants on a
plan
of your garden. Keep in mind that you will still need to account for each
plants microclimate requirements and height to account for shading etc.

well, thank you (and it appears that nothing much likes onions! which does
make sense. except for the plants which purportedly do....)

however, i'm starting to think i need a total personality transplant to even
get that organised. i've also realised why my rotations don't work easily,
(which is another issue entirely!). i will try to think about melding the
two issues with all my other issues (just the gardening ones, of course ;-).

i was easily able to try celery-with-beans just recently, as there were good
spots for bush beans between the celery trenches. beans aren't up yet, but
we'll see what happens there. one small experiment at a time is the way it
is going to have to be!

Or you could just prance naked through your garden at midnight with a
large
bag of mixed seed, flinging them gaily at the full moon, then see what
pops
up and grows well.

this sounds a bit more like my style ;-)
kylie


I assure you, at leaset one of the above methods works well for me.
;-)