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Planting in ridge troughs

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  • 27-04-2011 5:17pm
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    EyeBlinks
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    New to all this gardening mallarky, so this is probably a silly question.

    We got an allotment and have a lot of it planted. Just wondering is it possible to plant in the troughs of the ridges (raised beds). I'm thinking of Camomile. it looks good and we'll use it and hopefully won't take away too many nutrients.

    Any advice?


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    Corsendonk
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    EyeBlinks wrote: »
    New to all this gardening mallarky, so this is probably a silly question.

    We got an allotment and have a lot of it planted. Just wondering is it possible to plant in the troughs of the ridges (raised beds). I'm thinking of Camomile. it looks good and we'll use it and hopefully won't take away too many nutrients.

    Any advice?

    Never tried myself but its a common practice in certain hot countries to help keep mositure near the base of more mature plants and surpresses other potential weeds if its a low growing plant and certain plants help "fix "nitrogen. Usually members of the legume family.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation


    Wiki has a list of companion plants too
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companion_plants


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