Upon seeing the progress of my garden, i press further into trying another method of growing veggies, which is cohabiting different species. My mentor had told me to fully utilize the limited space i have, by thinking of what other way i can further add to already existing veggies i grow at the backyard.
- I introduced to the garden water leaf plant (ceylon spinach) and some eggplant leafy veggies to the already growing spinach and jute vegetables. These two new veggies are herbaceous perennials plant. Waterleaf is proven to be rich in nutrients, so also eggplants which has antioxidants properties.
The reason being to manage the limited space available since I'm only using the backyard as my garden for now. It makes it convenient for me to properly check on my veggies time to time.
While it also saves the stress of going round watering the garden, i can just focus on a piece or a particular area where my crops are since am planting them in the same area.
Perhaps this cohabiting or mixed cropping is another way of controlling the pests and diseases attacks of the plants, it does limit the transfer and spread of diseases between these vegetables.
While some veggies are already okay for consumption and would be replaced.
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Planting different types of plants together can indeed help the plants! Some plants will help ward off pests - marigold flowers, onions, and garlic are a few I know of - and some plants are "nitrogen fixers" meaning they get nitrogen into the soil and so planting them next to a vegetable that needs a lot of nitrogen is useful, things like that. Plus, if you DO lose some plants due to pests, if you have them scattered in different areas maybe you don't lose your whole crop of that plant, but just one section.
Good luck with your garden progress! :)
This is quite insightful, sure learnt something with your analysis, thanks so much for sharing with me.
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