Why Go Green – Natural Gardening II for Us and our kids and for the Love of Nature in a Green Garden

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Crops, rich in yield by mixed cultures.

As a gardener with a natural gardens in a green garden village, you should make yourselves familiar with the cultivation of the plants in mixed cultures.

Also in the nature plants at all times grow free in a community, they help and complement each other.

You can do similar experiences if you cultivate quite a lot of vegetable kinds and dissimilar herbs in a patch of the natural gardening.

Causes for pests and illnesses can be eliminated by good combination as well as yield and quality substantially can be increased.

Mixed cultures take into consideration the special nutrient wants and the enlargement behavior of the plants.

The plant distances must be chosen with the mixed culture in such a way that every kind receives the needed place.

The rows grow all together in summer so close that the ground remains shady, humid and to a great amount without weed.

At the beginning you are better off if you imitate experienced neighborhoods (see the following list), then later on you can experiment yourselves.

They should not forget spices and herbs in the mixed culture. With their intensive smells herbs can considerably avoid the pest infestation in the vegetable garden.

Thus protect for instance Savory before lice infestation in beans. Marigolds and nasturtium, rue and French marigold help to repulse insects. Mustard, sage and thyme chase away snails.

Vegetable kinds and mixing cultivation for natural gardening in a green garden village.

Beans
helpful with:
Dills, cucumbers, kohlrabi, lettuce, radish, rhubarb, spinach
Unfavorably with:
Peas, fennel, leek, onions

Savory
helpful with:
Beetroot, lettuce, bush and poles beans

Dill
constructive with:
Potatoes, cucumbers, bush beans, peas, cabbage kinds, turnips

Endives
constructive with:
Pole beans, leek, turnips, cabbage kinds

Peas
helpful with:
Lettuce, kohlrabi, turnips, radish, cabbage kinds
Unfavorably with:
Onions, bush and poles beans

Strawberries
good with:
Beans, garlic, kohlrabi, lettuce, leek, radishes, radish, spinach, onions
Adversely with:
Cabbage kinds

Fennel
encouraging with:
Lettuce
Harshly with:
Bush beans, peas

Borecole
helpful with:
Bush beans, peas, radish, celery , cucumbers, kohlrabi
Unfavorably with:
Potatoes, leek, onions,

Cucumbers
constructive with:
Bush beans, cabbage kinds, lettuce, parsley, beetroot, celeryceleriac, onions
Harshly with:
Strawberries, radish, tomatoes

Nasturtium
favorable with:
Potatoes, radishes, radish, courgette, tomatoes
Carrots, turnips
encouraging with:
Dill, strawberries, peas, lettuce, radishes, spinach, onions, tomatoes

Potatoes
helpful with:
Bush beans, kohlrabi, spinach
Harshly with:
Peas, cabbage kinds, beetroot, pumpkin, celery , tomatoes, sunflowers

Garlic
helpful with:
Strawberries, cucumbers, potatoes, carrots, beetroot, tomatoes
Unfavorably with:
Beans, peas, cabbage kinds

Kohlrabi
good with:
Peas, cucumbers, radish, potatoes
Adversely with:
Leek

Lettuce
encouraging with:
Bush beans, peas, cucumbers, turnips, onions, tomatoes, beans, rhubarb
Critically with:
Parsley

Parsley
favorable with:
Erdbeeren,Rettich,Zwiebeln,Tomaten,Gurken
Critically with:
Lettuce

Leek
constructive with:
Celery , tomatoes, strawberries
Harshly with:
Beans, peas, cabbage kinds, saladlettuce, kohlrabi, beetroot

Radishes
encouraging with:
Buschbohnen,Erbsen,Erdbeeren,Tomaten,Zwiebeln,Petersilie
Harshly with:
Cucumbers

Radish
good with:
Bush and poles beans, peas, strawberries, spinach, beetroot, cabbage kinds, lettuce, tomatoes, kohlrabi
Critically with:
Cucumbers

Brussels sprouts
favorable with:
Bush beans, cucumbers, peas, kohlrabi, radish, celeryceleriac
Harshly with:
Potatoes, leek, onions

Beetroot
good with:
Bush beans, strawberries, cucumbers, kohlrabi, radish
Harshly with:
Potatoes, leek, spinach, turnips

Red, White
encouraging with:
Bush beans, peas, cucumbers,
Unfavorably with:
Potatoes, leek, onions,

Savoy cabbage
encouraging with:
Radish, kohlrabi
Unfavorably with:
Strawberries

Chives
helpful with:
Dill
Critically with:
Bush and pole beans, peas, cabbage kinds, beetroot

Celery
favorable with:
Bush and pole beans, cucumbers, cabbage kinds, leek, turnips, tomatoes
Unfavorably with:
Potatoes, lettuce

Spinach
encouraging with:
Potatoes, cabbage kinds, turnips, radish, leek, rhubarb, pole beans
Harshly with:
Beetroot

Tomatoes
favorable with:
Bush beans, cabbage kinds, lettuce, kohlrabi, turnips, radish, spinach, onions
Adversely with:
Fennel, potatoes, peas, cucumbers

Courgette
encouraging with:
Peas, nasturtium, onions

Onions
encouraging with:
Parsley, beetroot, tomatoes
Critically with:
Bush and pole beans, peas, cabbage kinds

In the natural gardens of the gardener Gertrud Franck/Germany there are no walk ways and patch separations.
She sows in the early spring in the whole garden, a row distance of 50 cm, spinach. In between there grow the other cultures.

The spinach serves as food and also as a pest protection, shadow, ground cover and as a compost. With this cultivation method the garden has an unending change of planting and harvest and delivers even in winter fresh vegetables.

The work with walk ways as well as keeping clean is eradicated , the garden is not dug up, is loosened only with a grave fork. By surface composting even the compost heap becomes superfluous.

This is an attractive method for the green garden village owner who wants to work less.

There is no rule which is valid for each natural gardening. Climate and wind relations, ground state, the position of the garden and everything else must be taken into consideration.
The best way to know, what grows best where, is to try it out.

To the natural gardener should be directed by the sunrise and sunset, harvest and planting dates as well as the lunar stand. All these observations will reveal a physical connection and will also give you a lot of joy.
Read more in the next article for natural gardening in a green garden village
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