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Flowers amongst my veggies
This year I would like to grow some flowers amongst my veggies with two
aims in mind. I want the garden to have more colour and I would like to attract insects that will prey on my garden pests ( at least a little). I know nothing about what I should grow, but I will give you details of where I am and what type of veggies I intend to grow. I am in SE Scotland in a walled garden that has a good depth of free draining soil. I will be growing potatoes, lettuce, cabbage, carrots, spring onions, beans, peas, spinach, rasps, strawbs, plums, apples. Also tomatoes and chillies in the greenhouse, along with basil. Any suggestions as to what flowers I should grow, where in the garden, when sown etc would be very happily received. The easier to grow and the less attention they need the better:-) Thanks Jonny |
Flowers amongst my veggies
Lettuce Pray wrote:
This year I would like to grow some flowers amongst my veggies with two aims in mind. I want the garden to have more colour and I would like to attract insects that will prey on my garden pests ( at least a little). More effective to grow complementary plants that disguise the smell of your food plants from sap suckers and pests. Certain smelly marigold species work fairly well. Chrysanthemums are another possibility. I know nothing about what I should grow, but I will give you details of where I am and what type of veggies I intend to grow. I am in SE Scotland in a walled garden that has a good depth of free draining soil. I will be growing potatoes, lettuce, cabbage, carrots, spring onions, beans, peas, spinach, rasps, strawbs, plums, apples. Also tomatoes and chillies in the greenhouse, along with basil. In a greenhouse yellow cards coated in cycle grease are not bad. Any suggestions as to what flowers I should grow, where in the garden, when sown etc would be very happily received. The easier to grow and the less attention they need the better:-) Be careful what you wish for - if they are too easy to grow they are as bad as if not worse than the weeds. eg Himalayan balsam. Regards, Martin Brown |
Flowers amongst my veggies
Lettuce Pray wrote: This year I would like to grow some flowers amongst my veggies (snip) Hiya Jonny. I know you've posted twice - I thought you were trolling ... sorry :o) Here is a site which is a good start. http://www.organicgardening.org.uk/factsheets/gg44.php Also:- Basil improves the flavour of many garden vegetables, specifically tomatoes and lettuce, and repels flies and mosquitoes Borage near strawberries and tomatoes attracts bees, which help to improve crop yield by pollinating plants Comfrey Tap roots bring minerals to the surface of the soil. Dill and fennel attract hoverflies, which then eat aphids. Dill grows well next to lettuce and cucumbers Garlic and chives keep away aphids and black spot and planted round fruit trees/ bushes discourage insects from climbing the trunk. Garlic also improves the growth and health of raspberry bushes and can enhance the production of oils in herbs Chives enhance the flavour and growth of tomatoes, carrots, apples, berries and grapes. Marjoram and oregano are helpful to all vegetables Rosemary benefits beans and carrots. Sage amongst the brassica family, particularly cabbages repels cabbage white butterfly. Sage also benefits carrots, peas, beans but does not like cucumbers. Sage provides cover for frogs and toads that eat snails and slugs. Summer savoury deters black fly. Tagetes (like Martin mentioned) (African & French marigolds) Excellent on your plot. Deters aphids and whitefly through scent and by attracting hoverflies. Mexican marigolds (Tagetes Minuta), stops ground elder All marigold roots secrete chemicals, which help stop bindweed. The roots also stop eelworm from recognising their host plants, which include potatoes. Valerian amongst your veg stimulates earthworms, which helps to boost plant growth. Wormwood, hyssop and rue on your plot borders act as insect deterrents. Also you should check out how to make organic fertilisers, beside OM, out of plants. And there's many vegs that do not like each others. Like, garlic is bad with cabbages, peas and beans. Carrots don't like to be next to beetroot. Strawberries don't like to be next to cabbages. Beans don't like to be next to garlic, oignons, shallots. Salades don't like to be next to celery and parsley and tomatoes don't like to be next to cucumbers, gurkins, potatoes, peas and beans. Phew ... Good luck! |
Flowers amongst my veggies
On 18/1/06 23:08, in article
, "La Puce" wrote: Lettuce Pray wrote: This year I would like to grow some flowers amongst my veggies (snip) Hiya Jonny. I know you've posted twice - I thought you were trolling ... sorry :o) Here is a site which is a good start. http://www.organicgardening.org.uk/factsheets/gg44.php Also:- Basil improves the flavour of many garden vegetables, specifically tomatoes and lettuce, and repels flies and mosquitoes Borage near strawberries and tomatoes attracts bees, which help to improve crop yield by pollinating plants That comes from: http://www.thecei.org.uk/Beanstalk/companion_plants.htm Comfrey Tap roots bring minerals to the surface of the soil. And: http://www.thecei.org.uk/Beanstalk/companion_plants.htm Dill and fennel attract hoverflies, which then eat aphids. Dill grows well next to lettuce and cucumbers Goodness gracious me. Imagine, so does this: http://www.thecei.org.uk/Beanstalk/companion_plants.htm Garlic and chives keep away aphids and black spot and planted round fruit trees/ bushes discourage insects from climbing the trunk. Garlic also improves the growth and health of raspberry bushes and can enhance the production of oils in herbs Chives enhance the flavour and growth of tomatoes, carrots, apples, berries and grapes. And whoop de doo here it is again: http://www.thecei.org.uk/Beanstalk/companion_plants.htm snip So, you fraud, would you like to tell us how all this worked for you when you tried it out? I have found the web site from which you have filched this material but to which you make no attribution. Why do you do that? -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) |
Flowers amongst my veggies
Sacha wrote: That comes from: http://www.thecei.org.uk/Beanstalk/companion_plants.htm These are from my teacher's handouts from college (digging a pit on saturday and it's going to pour apparently). Do you have something to add to organic fertiliser, or are you going to once again mock me about my garlic (balanced on a monitor - very funny indeed), rhubbarb mix and bordeaux brew etc? Because if you don't beleive in companion planting and insect attractant plants, just take a tour around any lotties and just ask. But I forgot ... you don't grow vegs but sell potted plants in a garden centre and serves teacakes. Silly me! put tongue out |
Flowers amongst my veggies
"Sacha" wrote in message .uk... On 18/1/06 23:08, in article , "La Puce" wrote: Lettuce Pray wrote: This year I would like to grow some flowers amongst my veggies (snip) Hiya Jonny. I know you've posted twice - I thought you were trolling ... sorry :o) Here is a site which is a good start. http://www.organicgardening.org.uk/factsheets/gg44.php Also:- Basil improves the flavour of many garden vegetables, specifically tomatoes and lettuce, and repels flies and mosquitoes Borage near strawberries and tomatoes attracts bees, which help to improve crop yield by pollinating plants That comes from: http://www.thecei.org.uk/Beanstalk/companion_plants.htm Comfrey Tap roots bring minerals to the surface of the soil. And: http://www.thecei.org.uk/Beanstalk/companion_plants.htm Dill and fennel attract hoverflies, which then eat aphids. Dill grows well next to lettuce and cucumbers Goodness gracious me. Imagine, so does this: http://www.thecei.org.uk/Beanstalk/companion_plants.htm Garlic and chives keep away aphids and black spot and planted round fruit trees/ bushes discourage insects from climbing the trunk. Garlic also improves the growth and health of raspberry bushes and can enhance the production of oils in herbs Chives enhance the flavour and growth of tomatoes, carrots, apples, berries and grapes. And whoop de doo here it is again: http://www.thecei.org.uk/Beanstalk/companion_plants.htm snip So, you fraud, would you like to tell us how all this worked for you when you tried it out? I have found the web site from which you have filched this material but to which you make no attribution. Why do you do that? -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) Totally unfair criticism. The words "Tagetes (like Martin mentioned)" is nearly totally her own work probably---perhaps--maybe :-) |
Flowers amongst my veggies
Rupert wrote: Totally unfair criticism. The words "Tagetes (like Martin mentioned)" is nearly totally her own work probably---perhaps--maybe :-) LOL! What about the rest and my companion planting! Honestly. Poor Lettuce Pray. I thought he was a troll at first. What is this Sacha like?! Just read her questions: "I can't remember the colour of the blue flower I saw when I met the Prime Minister of Trululupa with Ray and John and Mike and Paul". "Ho thank you, off course it's blue, I had forgotten!" My Dog! Why can't she just go on a cruise with the other loon!! |
Flowers amongst my veggies
"La Puce" wrote in message oups.com... Rupert wrote: Totally unfair criticism. The words "Tagetes (like Martin mentioned)" is nearly totally her own work probably---perhaps--maybe :-) LOL! What about the rest and my companion planting! Honestly. Poor Lettuce Pray. I thought he was a troll at first. What is this Sacha like?! Just read her questions: "I can't remember the colour of the blue flower I saw when I met the Prime Minister of Trululupa with Ray and John and Mike and Paul". "Ho thank you, off course it's blue, I had forgotten!" My Dog! Why can't she just go on a cruise with the other loon!! "The other loon"--Mike is already on a cruise (supposedley) |
Flowers amongst my veggies
"La Puce" wrote in message oups.com... Sacha wrote: That comes from: http://www.thecei.org.uk/Beanstalk/companion_plants.htm These are from my teacher's handouts from college (digging a pit) -Snip- You should not spread myths even if they come from your teachers. "Comfrey Tap roots bring minerals to the surface of the soil" Do they mean the roots dig deep and extract minerals which are then available in the leaves? |
Flowers amongst my veggies
Rupert wrote: You should not spread myths even if they come from your teachers. And you should watch out Don because my patience with you will eventually have it's limit and I just might turn around and bite your lil' ass. Now if you have something to say about Sacha I suggest you say it to her once and for all and not email me about it. I have had more than enough of this hypocrisy. Second, if you think what I say are myth, I suggest you take on a course and learn instead of wandering around usenet pretending to know just about everything. And third, just stop following me about after her. It now starts to look a bit strange. Warning: don't do usenet and drink :o) |
Flowers amongst my veggies
"La Puce" wrote in message oups.com... Rupert wrote: You should not spread myths even if they come from your teachers. And you should watch out Don because my patience with you will eventually have it's limit and I just might turn around and bite your lil' ass. Now if you have something to say about Sacha I suggest you say it to her once and for all and not email me about it. I have had more than enough of this hypocrisy. Second, if you think what I say are myth, I suggest you take on a course and learn instead of wandering around usenet pretending to know just about everything. And third, just stop following me about after her. It now starts to look a bit strange. Warning: don't do usenet and drink :o) Mission accomplished |
Flowers amongst my veggies
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from Sacha contains these words: So, you fraud, would you like to tell us how all this worked for you when you tried it out? I have found the web site from which you have filched this material but to which you make no attribution. Why do you do that? Force of habit..like pretending (too late) that the exact same material came from her employer/work colleagues/ tutor. Or pretending to be a cute little inexperienced girl, (aged well over 40, grey and tired, with kids aged 8 to 15). Janet |
Flowers amongst my veggies
Janet Baraclough wrote: Force of habit..like pretending (too late) that the exact same material came from her employer I don't have an employer and am the employer. /work colleagues In that context it was for our Morecambe competition, which we didn't get btw. Urban splash decided on someone else with less environmental understanding and concerns, sadly. / tutor. Yes, my tutor Kath from the RHS course I am currently doing in Northenden Manchester City College. Her handouts are so numerous I need a filing cabinet for them. Or pretending to be a cute little inexperienced girl, That's your fantasie but perhaps your jalousy too. I certainly like you don't wear long johns on top of my trousers. How's your tache growing? g (aged well over 40, 41. grey No, brunette long hair and entirely naturelle :o) Perhaps you are refering to the student's questionaire. I said 'grey' as my skin being grey. At least that's what my family says. Usually I'm quite dark but years in the UK has turned me greyish skin looking :o( and tired, Yes. Ho yes. Too much to do, too little time. with kids aged 8 to 15). No. A boy of 11 in 2 months (we will be in Cannes for it) and a boy of 16 in May (we will be in Bordeaux for it). But Janet let me be now, honesty leave me alone or you are going to regret it. |
Flowers amongst my veggies
Sacha wrote: If you're going to take material directly from someone else's work it's considered polite to put quotes round it and make it clear what you're doing. Which is probably why you never do so. Do you know what time it was when I wrote last night?! Do you know that I have a life, a lot of homework, a demanding full time job, kids, pets etc. I am passionate about it all, but for the love of god JUST LEAVE ME ALONE the PAIR OF YOU! Is it because I'm French I'm getting this? Tell me, have you got a problem with foreeneers? And no SACHA, YOU HAVEN''T INVENTED GARLIC! And I don't give a fig about your husband! Why should I do?! What on earth are you on? Just go away. Yes? |
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