[net.garden] Marigolds + garlic == healthy garden

silver@csu-cs.UUCP (06/13/83)

In our  experience,  planting  both,  liberally,  results in reduced bug
damage and healthier  vegetables and yes, even fruit trees.  Nasturtiums
are also good (but  harder to grow).  If you really  want to get  fussy,
there is a whole science called "companion planting" that tells you, for
instance, that onions and beans hate each other.

You can reach a certain  "critical  mass" with marigolds (and garlic too
for that matter) where they keep coming up each year,  everywhere,  even
after  rototilling.  You pull them like weeds where  they're not welcome
and let them grow everywhere else.  Very pretty and effective too.

One more neat  idea...  if you plant enough  varieties of stuff, you are
certain of SOMETHING doing well ANY year!  Satisfaction guaranteed...

Alan Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division, Colorado
ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcld!ajs, 303-226-3800 x3053, N 40 31'31" W 105 00'43"