Good Companions ; Your Home Inside & Out Advertising Feature

Plymouth Evening Herald, The › October 08, 2010

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DID you know that a border of lavender will protect plants from slug and snail invasions, or that chives help prevent blackspot and increase performance in roses? Bob Flowerdew, a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time, has observed useful interactions between different plants, how some will flourish together while others will fail. His book, Companion Planting, is a guide to the best - and worst - plant partners.

History reveals that companion planting goes back centuries, he explains.

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Good Companions ; Your Home Inside & Out Advertising Feature

He explains: "Darwin said that in a village with more old ladies, there would be better crops of hay. This was because old ladies tended to keep cats. More cats mean less mice. Mice r...

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