Ivydene Gardens Offbeat Glossary: QRST

This Offbeat Glossary shows in tabular form an alphabetical list of terms commonly encountered in writings about gardening, which exclude agrochemicals, together with some offbeat but interesting ideas.
TERM	DEFINITION
Rabbits	To deter rabbits:- Plant onions with cabbages, dust with ashes, powdered aloes or cayenne pepper. Fertilise with dried blood or blood meal.
Raised bed	A raised bed is a normal bed - about 36-40 inches wide - which is raised higher than the path by the soil put on it.
Shade	Shade is sometimes the decisive factor in companion planting. The first plant is harvested before the Later Plants in the same ground:-
	FIRST PLANT	LATER PLANTS
	Lettuce	Cabbage, Broccoli, Brussels sprout, Tomato
	Early beet	Late Potato
	Onion	Melon
	Sweetcorn stalks	Fall cabbage, Bean, Pea, Turnip
Succession planting	Succession planting enables the best use of compost, well-decomposed manure or fertiliser, with heavy feeders first followed by light feeders and then legumes:-
	HEAVY FEEDERS	LIGHT FEEDERS	LEGUMES
	Broccoli	Beet	Broad Bean
	Brussels sprout	Carrot	Lima bean
	Cabbage	Radish	Bush bean
	Cauliflower	Rutabaga	Pole bean
	Celeriac	Turnip	Pea
	Celery		Soybean
	Chard Cucumber Endive Kohlrabi Leek Lettuce Spinach Squash Sweetcorn Tomato
Two-level companion planting	Two-level companion planting is for vegetables which occupy different soil strata:-
	BOTTOM LAYER	TOP LAYER
	Asparagus	Parsley and Tomato
	Beet	Kohlrabi
	Beet	Onion
	Leek	Vine plants
	Garlic	Tomato
	Carrot	Pea
	Strawberry	Bush bean
Two-season planting	Two-season planting - spring and autumn:-
	SPRING	AUTUMN
	Squash	Cauliflower Broccoli Brussels sprout Cabbage Collard Lettuce Radish Pea
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