http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/garden/29cutt.html June 29, 2003
CUTTINGS
In Search of Meaningful Companionship
By ANNE RAVER
...Companion planting, or using one species to bolster the health or
production of another, has been part of garden folklore for
centuries. But proving what works - which companion plants attract
beneficial insects or repel pests, and which enrich the soil - is
about as easy as finding a cure for the common cold. (It's almost
like the mind-body connection: if you believe that basil helps your
tomatoes, it will.)
As Arthur O. Tucker and Thomas DeBaggio point out in "The Big Book
of Herbs" (Interweave Press, 2000), the idea was popularized in the
United States in the 1940's with the introduction of French
intensive gardening. Rudolf Steiner's biodynamic principles paid
similar attention to the soil and to the exchange of gases,
nutrients and compounds.
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