It's not just about looks, there’s plenty of scientific rationale for having a well-mixed garden.
The section entitled “play” at the back of the book is Watkins’ favorite—it features recipes and other projects that encourage people to see gardening as a creative outlet. She includes recipes for lilac scones and dandelion flower syrup and instructions for planting aThe final section profiles 37 of the most commonly grown edible plants, with specifics on how to grow them from start to finish and common problems you might encounter.
She also discourages readers from running their garden like an efficient and optimized agricultural operation. It’s more useful to think of a garden as a small ecosystem on earth that you’re taking care of, “Try to make it healthier than it was before you came.”Watkins first learned to garden from her grandfather, who planted things in neat, meticulous rows, and later she learned more of the same while working on farms in Guinea as a Peace Corps volunteer.
Rather than getting bogged down with pairing plants with their ideal companions, Watkins urges gardeners to let their whims dictate where things grow. She plants yarrow and fennel next to each other because she likes the way the yellow and purple flowers look together, and she prefers to arrange plants like “a school classroom photo” with taller ones in the back and shorties up front.
It’s not just about looks for Watkins—there’s plenty of scientific rationale for having a well-mixed garden. Integrated planting better reflects how things grow in nature, attracting a greater array of pollinators and discouraging the pests and diseases that spread more easily in monoculture planting schemes.Not everybody has a fertile allotment of land to call their own, but that doesn’t mean you can’t grow food.
A lack of light is a tougher issue because things like tomatoes and squash like a good eight or more hours of sunshine a day, but hope is not lost. Watkins grows
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