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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: manicscousers on May 18, 2008, 19:12:51

Title: my favourite companion plant
Post by: manicscousers on May 18, 2008, 19:12:51
limnanthes douglasii ? , or poached egg plant
love 'em  ;D
Title: Re: my favourite companion plant
Post by: saddad on May 18, 2008, 19:42:59
Perhaps as well as they seed so freely you never get rid of them!!  ;D
Title: Re: my favourite companion plant
Post by: star on May 18, 2008, 20:33:17
I like them too, self seeding saves a lot of bother growing new stuff every year though ;)
Title: Re: my favourite companion plant
Post by: Hyacinth on May 18, 2008, 20:38:48
....and I can't get it to grow :'( have tried planting clumps from a friend, sown seeds....zilch >:(
Title: Re: my favourite companion plant
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on May 18, 2008, 20:40:13
Same here. Do you have to sell your soul to grow this stuff, or what?
Title: Re: my favourite companion plant
Post by: Deb P on May 18, 2008, 20:42:49
I must be well damned then, I sowed it on the plot last year and it is everywhere now..... ;D
Title: Re: my favourite companion plant
Post by: star on May 18, 2008, 20:43:03
Try throwing some seed around, dont cover or water. Specially put some in the cracks in your patio. Somewhere where its really going to annoy you. Its bound to come up the minute you have a shred of regret ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: my favourite companion plant
Post by: manicscousers on May 18, 2008, 21:12:59
started them 4 years ago, in cells, transplanted them, last year, dug up clumps, transplanted into cells and sold them, still have loads around the fruit trees  ;D
star, sounds about right  ;D ;D
Title: Re: my favourite companion plant
Post by: Emagggie on May 18, 2008, 21:39:55
Started them in cells for the first time this year, Haven't got round to planting them out yet, but I love 'em too Manics ;D
Title: Re: my favourite companion plant
Post by: saddad on May 18, 2008, 21:56:53
OH has just dug up a wheel barrow ful and taken them down to the compost bin on the bottom avenue so they will be an avenue weed next year...
::)
Title: Re: my favourite companion plant
Post by: manicscousers on May 18, 2008, 22:12:54
gotta be better than marestail or bindweed, though Saddad  ;D
Title: Re: my favourite companion plant
Post by: ninnyscrops on May 18, 2008, 22:13:08
Masses under the roses at the front of the house and not an aphid in sight!  They self seed and flower just before the buds open on the roses.  Haven't got any in the back garden under the roses and they are covered in the little blighters.