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Companion planting
Hi,
I have just planted a Lime tree and wondered if there was anything anyone would recommend be planted around the base. I have been told not to plant anything to avoid root competetion, is this correct? thanks Brian |
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Hi Brian,
I'm not too sure of the "correct" thiong to do, but I successfully grew a heap of spinach and silverbeet around my lime, lemon and orange trees. Also a friend put a heap of compost around hers and she grew a heaps of "volunteer" cherrt toms. Can't be too bad for the trees either as her (at least) are going great. Mine are a different matter, but I don't think the plantings around the base contributed to this - I have a leaf miner problem! Cheers, MC "Halfhand" wrote in message news Hi, I have just planted a Lime tree and wondered if there was anything anyone would recommend be planted around the base. I have been told not to plant anything to avoid root competetion, is this correct? thanks Brian |
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I plant garlic around the base of each of my trees. I never harvest it, but
let it grow year after year. I also plant tulips around them for a pretty display in the spring. I heard an old wives tale about garlic keeping some bugs out of your fruit and trees. I have also read it in gardening books. It seems to keep the rabbits from my cabbage plants. I used to live in a place that had lime, orange, and grapefruit trees in the yard and I never noticed any of them bothered with bugs or other pests. Dwayne "Halfhand" wrote in message news Hi, I have just planted a Lime tree and wondered if there was anything anyone would recommend be planted around the base. I have been told not to plant anything to avoid root competetion, is this correct? thanks Brian |
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