Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful GardeningEmploys a dictionary format to furnish information on the characteristics and uses of plants that promote the growth of other varieties, offering descriptions of helpful weeds and insect-repellent plants. |
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... Sunflowers -VL Sage Path Path Summer Cauliflower when I Rosemary le Pompkins -Non corn y sh m Cornw.m Beans3 ft . path Rosemary of A Soya .Peasta te - 1 ve Pearl Aus der Turnips W ) . Furnips ille Aalia lipeast Likna Turnips ...
... Sunflowers -VL Sage Path Path Summer Cauliflower when I Rosemary le Pompkins -Non corn y sh m Cornw.m Beans3 ft . path Rosemary of A Soya .Peasta te - 1 ve Pearl Aus der Turnips W ) . Furnips ille Aalia lipeast Likna Turnips ...
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... sunflower . Red clover , however , is a good indicator of potassium deficiency . It will disappear with increasing acidity . Tobacco takes up potassium in its leaves and stalks and is thus a good plant on the compost pile if it has not ...
... sunflower . Red clover , however , is a good indicator of potassium deficiency . It will disappear with increasing acidity . Tobacco takes up potassium in its leaves and stalks and is thus a good plant on the compost pile if it has not ...
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... sunflower leaves a zone of “ little growth ” around itself . Sunflowers and potatoes have an inhibiting effect on each other that results in both being stunted . Potatoes also are more likely to be infected by phytophthora blight .
... sunflower leaves a zone of “ little growth ” around itself . Sunflowers and potatoes have an inhibiting effect on each other that results in both being stunted . Potatoes also are more likely to be infected by phytophthora blight .
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