The association of crops in the garden is one of the most interesting topics. It is essential to have a healthy, healthy and pest-free garden or urban garden.
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Association of cultures: what is it?
The association of cultures consists in grouping together certain plant species, in the same space of land or table of culture, with the aim of benefiting from each other through a “symbiosis”. This symbiosis will help them grow much better, improving or enhancing their flavor, helping with biological pest control, and enhancing their development.
The basis of a good association is to understand certain Basic conceptsincluding the needs of nutrients Plant they are different and complementary. For this reason, you should always avoid combining plants that have the same needs, such as plants from the same family. Thus, it will always be more interesting to sow associated plants such as root crops, which will seek their development in the ground, with other leafy plants, which will develop more in the aerial part, as would be the case with plant lettuce And plant carrots in a complementary way.
The other plants are indifferent to each other and does not cause harm or benefit, with which they can be perfectly assembled. But let’s remember, that always trying avoid planting the same type (root, leaf, fruit, flower) either family (Cucurbitaceae, Solanaceae, etc.). We will also take into account rotations year after year, to don’t exhaust the earth.
Table of crop associations
I leave you a little guide or table of crop associations, which you may always want to have on hand to consult and see if we are doing it right or wrong. On the other hand, it is always interesting to investigate and discover new associations: for example, it is well known that growing onions or garlic with carrots helps us repel the carrot fly.
Other interesting crop associations at a general level associate the cultivation of vegetables with aromatics, which drive away pests or attract beneficial insects. Like some examples we have seen, the Rosemary or we can also plant lavenderand many more that we will see.
Two very interesting associations for vegetable crops that we have already seen on the blog and on the YouTube channel are the pre-Columbian association or milpa and the association or “black salad”, as I call it.
If we have a small garden, it is a very good idea to also look for crop associations that have different growth rate, to take advantage of the space. For example, we can put lettuce between the tomatoes, and while they are still growing, we will have already harvested our lettuce crop.
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