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Veg patch. Will a laurel hedge be ok?
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Will a laurel hedge be ok as a bordrfor my veg patch? I cant find it now, but remember omeone telling me the leaves are poisonous. If this is right will it be safe for the veg? |
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Veg patch. Will a laurel hedge be ok?
In article , tina writes: | | Will a laurel hedge be ok as a bordrfor my veg patch? | | I cant find it now, but remember omeone telling me the leaves are | poisonous. | | If this is right will it be safe for the veg? Provided that none of your vegetables get out of their beds and start munching on the hedge, yes. I can't promise anything if they do that! More seriously, it isn't ideal, as it casts a VERY heavy shadow and is a very greedy plant, so there will be afairly wide zone near it where nothing else will grow well. I would plant something else; how wide and high do you want the hedge, and it is on the south side? Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Veg patch. Will a laurel hedge be ok?
On Jan 28, 11:17 am, tina wrote: Hi. Will a laurel hedge be ok as a bordrfor my veg patch? I cant find it now, but remember omeone telling me the leaves are poisonous. If this is right will it be safe for the veg? Tina, on one side of our back garden, the veggie garden, there is a five foot laurel hedge. I have just asked the veggie gardener aka my husband and he says provided the height does not get out of hand by casting shadows, there is nothing prohibitive in a laurel hedge being next to a veggie garden. The vegetables growing near the hedge do not seem to suffer from deprivation of anything. JudithL |
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Veg patch. Will a laurel hedge be ok?
On 28/1/07 11:17, in article ,
"tina" wrote: Hi. Will a laurel hedge be ok as a bordrfor my veg patch? I cant find it now, but remember omeone telling me the leaves are poisonous. If this is right will it be safe for the veg? They grow quite tall and take up a lot of width, too but you don't have to worry about them as poisonous to your veg. If it's simply as something decorative and a visual definition, could you use lavender or rosemary? If you need to screen your veg. plot from prying eyes, could you put up trellis and grow e.g. sweet peas or peas and runner beans up it? If it's a screen to hide it from the rest of the garden, you might like to look at something like willow hurdles or a simple but attractive paling fence. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ (remove weeds from address) |
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Veg patch. Will a laurel hedge be ok?
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Hi. Will a laurel hedge be ok as a bordrfor my veg patch? I cant find it now, but remember omeone telling me the leaves are poisonous. If this is right will it be safe for the veg? Be aware that the leaves of potatoes are also poisonous ;-) In other words, the fact that parts or all of a plant is poisonous to humans is not a reason for not growing it near you vegetable patch (always assuming you can distinguish between your vegetables and the poisonous plants - ISTR there have been several cases of people poisoning themselves by eating daffodil bulbs in mistake for onions) -- Kay |
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Veg patch. Will a laurel hedge be ok?
In article , tina writes: | | Nick, Its a north (think its NNE to be exact), e want it to be about | 4ft or 5ft high as its the boundry to the street so would like a bit | of privacy. That's good. You needn't worry about the shade it casts, then. | The laurel hedge was 6ft on average, but I have clipped it down to 5ft | just to even it up a it was 7ft sloping own to 5ft. | | There are 14 in total, but if it nds replacing then I'd probably | think of it..... Oh, I wouldn't get rid of an EXISTING hedge in that location; I would just not plant a NEW one. As everyone else says, you don't have a significant problem, but vegetables very close to it won't grow well in dry spells in the summer (if any). What you are doing is fine. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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