When you plant strawberries, try to add several dill plants or garlic. Why? Thanks to the accompanying plants, strawberries will be healthier and their yield higher.
What is the accompanying planting?
Somewhere we saw strawberries deposed with garlic and dill. Who ever thought of combining fruit with aromatic garlic and dill? If you are surprised by this special combination, then you probably haven’t heard of the accompanying planting, or Companion Planting.
It is an approach in which combinations of different plants are recommended in the same flowerbed, as these plants benefit from each other by their presence. The reasons for this combination may be different. Sometimes these are insecticidal effects of plants, other plants shield or provide support. Others are honey and attract bees and the like.
Just as there are combinations beneficial for growing vegetables, fruits or herbs, while others do not get out. These are plants that shade, take nutrients or moisture, are attacked by the same pests, etc.
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Where did the accompanying planting come from?
This approach was created by observing processes in nature and the basis is mainly long -term experience with specific plants. Most often it is reminded of the way of cultivation used by the indigenous people of America, and is called “3 sisters” because the locals together cultivated corn, pumpkins and beans. For thousands of years, the Chinese have been using the same principle for growing rice.
But it is not the only scheme. Because the ways in which plants interact are different. However, strawberries, garlic and dill have many advantages of their presence.
Advantages of growing garlic and dill with strawberries
Garlic and dill are very aromatic plants that repel various pests with their exceptional detection. To some extent, both aphids and slugs repel. In addition, garlic can contribute slightly to the reduction of fungal diseases, which are very common in strawberries. In addition, dill attracts polishing insects, not only bees but also butterflies. In this way, garlic and dill contribute in this way to each other and still support the growth of strawberries.
And it’s not all. Another big advantage of dill cultivation near strawberries is that this plant has the ability to improve the soil structure, while maintaining a good balance of nutrients that need strawberries to grow and mature fruits. Kopr also acts supportive by not taking out the essential nutrients from the soil that are necessary for the good development of the strawberry.
For various reasons, spinach, sage, basil, thyme or oregano, radishes, brutnák, asparagus and salad, but also pests forgiving Africans or aksamitky, are also suitable for strawberries
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