Companion Planting & Succession
Garden planting and transplanting is now in full swing. If we can avoid any more cold spells pretty much everything we want to grow can be planted from now on. But one question remains, who makes good garden companions, who do not? Plants affect their neighbors and the soil so we should try to place compatible or non-competitive plants near each other when possible. A similar principle applies when deciding which plant follows recently removed ones (succession). We don’t want…