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There are three succesive planting beds in this home garden, along with a fruit bed and a spice bed acting as a beneficial habitat for surrounding plants. The succesive beds are planted to support growth year round from left to right in order of time of year from spring to winter. For example spring cabbage, then large tomatoes, finishing with broccoli. The beneficial habitat garden is planted with cilantro, rosemary, rye, and mint. Cilantro produces pollen attracting ladybugs to help control aphids. Rosemary confuses cabbage butterflies and deters beetles and flies. Mint is grown to repel harmful insects like earworms that may attack the corn crop, and also to attract beneficial insects. Rye is mixed in to act as a beneficial nitrate trap crop. In the fruit garden there are strawberries, blueberries, rasberries and a dwarf peach tree. Common pests to these fruit producing plants are fruit flys in the strawberries, mites in the peaches,bud mites in the blueberries, and the dreaded Japanese beetle in the rasberries. A few methods to deal with these pests are trap cropping and planting herbs like mint which deter mites and beetles. Lastly there is a scientific companion garden which has winter peas to allow symbiotic nitrogen fixation in the soil, beds rotatd each year to maintain soil health.I also added garlic as a nasturtium to control aphids. My source for information has been www.growveg.com.
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| Garden Location:
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Manhattan, Illinois
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| Garden Size:
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50' 0" x 19' 11"
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| Garden Type:
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Home garden
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| Garden Layout:
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Raised Beds
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| Sun or Shade:
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Sunny
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| Garden Soil Type:
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Good soil
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