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companion planting
helps your garden health
Keep your garden happy, healthy and at -
"tractive by "companion planting".
"Companion planting is the practice of
purposely placing plants together that
enhance each other's growth and separating
plants that inhibit each other," says Joe
Muething off RR 2 Englehart, Ont., one of
several Master Gardeners in the province
who has received formal training in hor-
ticulture from the Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food's Master Gardener
program.
Some plants are compatible because their
root zones occupy different soil levels or
because they share a need for a certain
mineral or soil type.
A sun -loving plant, for example, may pro-
vide shade for a plant that thrives in partial
sun.
Other plants give off odors that repel in-
sect pests.
In a typical companion -planted garden,
vegetables, flowers, and herbs are mixed
together to create a garden that is visually
pleasing.
At the same time, a companion -planted
garden is confusing to garden pests; insects
must search out each individual plant
amidst other plants that are unappetizing to
them. -
To achieve best results, you must unders-
tand the "social circle" of fruits,
vegetables, herbs and flowers.
Asparagus for example, is quite compati-
ble with tomatoes, parsley and basil. But
keep asparagus separate from onions,
garlic and beans.
Plant bush beans with beets, carrots,
cauliflower, cucumbers, celery and
potatoes, summer savory, rosemary,
marigolds, petunias, and strawberries.
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But avoid planting bush beans beside
onions, garlic or fennel.
Pole beans grow well with radishes and
corn; but they do not enjoy the company of
beets, kohlrabi or sunflowers.
Beets do well in the company of bush
beans, carrots, cabbage, kohlrabi, lettuce
and onions.
Broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower con be
grown with all aromatic herbs, onions,
beets, potatoes, nasturtiums and marigolds.
But these cole crops do not grow well with
tomatoes, pole beans and strawberries.
Carrots may be grown beside peas, beets,
lettuce, radishes, onions, rosemary,
parsley, coriander and sage. But carrots do
not get along with dill.
Celery may be grown with bush beans,
leeks and tomatoes; corn with beans,
cucumbers, pumpkin and squash;
cucumber with bush beans, corn, radishes
and lettuce; lettuce with cucumbers, car-
rots, onions, radishes and strawberries.
Onions are quite companionable with
beets, cabbage, carrots and lettuce. But
onions do not like peas and beans.
Peas may be grown with carrots, corn,
turnip, nasturiums and beans. (But don't
plant peas with onions, garlic or potatoes).
Potatoes enjoy the company of beans,
corn, cabbage, peas, horseradish, tansy and
marigolds. But potatoes do not get along
with cucumbers, peas, sunflowers, pum-
pkin, tomatoes or squash.
Pumpkin may be planted beside corn — -
but not beside potatoes.
And tomatoes?
Tomatoes are quite sociable to asparagus,
marigolds, basil and parsley but "turn their
noses up" at potatoes, cabbage, fennel and
petunias.
Bugs and insects could
be killing your lawn
Bugs could be killing lawn
Bugs could be at the root of your lawn's
problems, says pest Management Specialist
Kevin Ker of the Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food's plant industry bran-
ch, Vineland Station, Ont.
`Insects and diseases can rapidly
transform an attractive lawn into an
eyesore, producing large areas of dead and
; dying grass. Worst of all, insects can be dif-
ficult to detect in a lawn,' he said.
The most common insects are the grubs of
June beetles and European chafers can
appear from early May through late June.
and the hairy chinch bug.
Grubs are root feeders that cause leaves
and stems of grasses to first wilt, then turn
yellow and die in patches.
Lawn damage such as numerous holes
caused by skunks and other rodents is often
an indication of grub presence.
Best control is achieved by applying an in-
secticide after heavy adult flights . are
observed. Treatments can be applied after
yellowing and wilting of the turf has oc-
curred
Damage by the sod webworm first ap-
pears as scattered irregular patches of
brown turf.
The dead grass pulls away easily in
clumps, revealing masses of silk with soil
particles and excrement from the cater-
pillar embedded in the silk web.
Often, webworm damage does not appear
until late summer — yet early- season con-
trol is the best tactic.
The presence of the small tan moths dur-
ing mowing in late May to early June can in-
dicate infestation.
Insecticides applied during heavy adult
flights on warm evenings in May to June can
be very effective.
The hairy chinch bug has been the,
primary pest of home lawns and can be con --
trolled easily if insecticides are applied pro-
perly and at the correct time.
Overwintering adults congregate in pro-
tected areas such as flower beds, hedgerows
and near foundations.
Peak egg -laying occurs m early June with
hatching shortly thereafter.
' ides
after most
of the s
Apply insecticides eggs
have hatched because at this stage, the,
grubs are most vulnerable.
An easy .method of detecting chinch bugs
is to remove the top and bottom of a large
container, such as a coffee tin, and force this
into the turf in the area where early damage
has occurred.
Fill the can with water and rake the turf
with your fingers and watch for nymphs and
adults to float to the surface.
Before applying any pesticides for control
of lawn pests, be sure to read the label;
pesticides work efficiently when applied
safely and at the proper time.
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