Beans and polycultures

[Duronal]

After hearing about polyculture on GW tonight i was starting to think of veggie combinations that you could use on a plot.

The obvious is to start with beans that put nitrogen into the soil and then plant something that takes it back out again.

So i was thinking about some of the following

Beans - Brassica - Lettuce/Radish

Beans/Peas - Squash (2 sisters) - beetroot.

Beans - courgette

Beans/peas - perpetual spinich - Herbs ( parsley )

Peas and Leeks

does anyone else have any other ideas?

[PAULW]

Peas and Leeks

does anyone else have any other ideas?

A few pelvic floor exercises may be needed here LOL

[FionaH]

a few pelvic floor exercises may be needed here lol

rofl

[TonyF]

Isn't that what we used to call companion planting?

There are books written on the dos and don't of this and many gardening books now contain sections on it.

Is this the new jargon for gardeners, polyculture?

[rodofgod76]

From what I can gather Tony, polyculture is a "step on" from companion planting.

[zazen999]

Polyculture is just a collective term for companion planting, multi cropping or crop rotation; ie anything other than monoculture.

[purplekat]

or you could go another step up to permaculture and forest gardens
Permaculture- A Beginner's Guide
(Look at no.13 if you don't want to look at it all)

I particularly like this quote
“You haven’t got an excess of slugs, you’ve got a duck deficiency”.

[TonyF]

Polyculture is just a collective term for companion planting, multi cropping or crop rotation; ie anything other than monoculture.

Ah, so it's 'newspeak' for what we've been doing in gardens for years. Evidently the terms we use need a makeover too.

[Snadger]

It should be called 'common sense' gardening! Geoff Hamilton is my hero in this respect!