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    Basic Companion Planting for Organic Gardens
    Basic Companion Planting for Organic Gardens
    Basic Companion Planting for Organic Gardens
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    Basic Companion Planting for Organic Gardens

    By David Bigwood

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    An introduction into what companion planting is plus details of the likes and dislikes of plants and how plants can be used to attract or repel insects.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Bigwood
    Release dateDec 13, 2011
    ISBN9781465919458
    Basic Companion Planting for Organic Gardens
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    David Bigwood

    I am originally from the UK and am now a resident of the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales, Australia. I have been a regularly published writer and photographer for many years with many articles published in Australian Photography, Australian Camera and Better Photography (Australia). My work has appeared in well over sixty publications, mainly in Australia and the UK. I also founded and edited The Black and White Enthusiast magazine when I represented the UK publisher Creative Monochrome in Australia. This magazine was eventually sold and has since become Silvershotz. I also wrote a column on freelancing for the UK magazine F2 Freelance + Digital and have interviewed a number of leading photographers including Charlie Waite, considered the doyen of landscape photographers in the UK. I have qualified as a Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society (LRPS) with a panel of black and white prints and am a former member of the Australian Society of Authors. My photographs are licensed through Alamy for use in publications. I am a former editor of the Journal of the Australian Photographic Society. I am happy to do my best to answer reader's questions (d.bigwood@bigpond.com).

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      Basic Companion Planting for Organic Gardens - David Bigwood

      Basic Companion Planting

      for Organic Gardens

      by David Bigwood

      Published by Bigwoodpublishing.com at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 David Bigwood

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Plants A to Z

      Friends and Foes in Your Garden

      Friends and Foes A to Z

      Introduction

      As a boy in England, I remember vividly visiting elderly relatives in the country. Their cottage with its open beamed, low ceilinged rooms and with a dark, wooden, twisting staircase to the bedrooms in the roof was an enchanting place to the boy from a very ordinary London semi. But, it wasn't only the cottage that was so different. The garden was like nothing that I had ever seen before.

      Gardens in the part of London from which I came — and probably in most of the metropolis for that matter — were very orderly affairs. Flower beds flanked neatly trimmed lawns and from these patches of soil plants were growing shoulder to shoulder with their own kind. Occasionally there would be a border of different flowers but behind this each type of plant kept to its allotted space among its own fellows. Plant racial discrimination was most definitely the order of the day. Marigolds huddled together with marigolds, lupins stood aloof and apart, tulips touched only other tulips, and the aristocratic rose trees were kept well clear of the rest of the lesser inhabitants of the garden.

      Not so in the garden of my great aunt and uncle. There, integration was the name of the game. It appeared that no two adjacent plants were the same. Every bit of space in the huge flower beds was taken by a plant. And, if you looked closely, you would see that not all the plants were flowers.

      There were herbs and even the odd tomato plant. There was no plan; it all looked as if it had just happened. But, how well it had happened. I cannot ever recall seeing a better, a more impressive display anywhere in the world.

      The many varieties of green highlighted by the brilliant splashes of colour from the multitude of different flowers was striking even to a young boy. The sheer mass of plants that filled the bed was impressive. It was so different.

      But, when I looked around at the other gardens in this tiny Herefordshire village, most of them were

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