How to increase yields and improve the taste of vegetables without much hassle? Agronomists have come up with a solution: mixed planting.
18 May 2017
Even in medieval Europe, monks gained experience in the compatibility of various vegetable crops and noticed their beneficial effect on each other. And in our time, a fashion has arisen for mixed plantings. A properly selected community of plants in a garden plot begins to live an independent life, almost in the same way as it happens in the wild, that is, self-regulation takes place.
There are several advantages here. Products grown in pleasant company are tastier, more nutritious and better stored. The number of pests and diseases is reduced. The yield per square meter increases. The correct neighborhood avoids the depletion of the soil inherent in plantings of the same species. So, which plants have a beneficial effect on each other.