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Successive Vegetable Garden
The successive vegetable garden has the most variety of all the garden. It includes carrots, onions, beets, lettuce, spinach, kale, and broccoli. Carrots can be harvested in the spring, onions in the summer, and beets in the fall. In the next schedule, lettuce can be harvest in the summer and spinach in the fall. Finally, kale can be harvest in the spring and broccoli in the fall. Kale can be attacked by different pests. The pests, according to one article are aphids, cabbage white butterfly caterpillars, and harlequin bugs (Growjourney). Broccoli pest include cabbage worms, aphids, flea beetles, and cutworms (Gardeningknowhow). Aphids eat the leaves of the broccoli (Gardenknowhow). Cutworms bore into the heads off mature pants (Gardenknowhow). These pests should not be deterrent if proper care of the plants is taken. All these plant schedules make sure that harvesting is an option throughout the year.
Beneficial Habit Garden
This garden is meant to include plants that will provide habitats or food for beneficial insects. There are insects that damage plants, however, there also insects that are beneficial to plants and attracting those insects is important. This garden includes fennel, tansy, dill, and buckwheat. Dill is a great addition to a garden since it attracts predatory wasps (Oster). These wasps will kill pests that damage other plants. Sandy Swegels article on Aphids states how wasps will eat the aphids. Buckwheat is a popular habitat plant for pest-eating insects (Russell). Tansy is a plant that attracts pollinators to the garden and this is important because pollination is a key part in making sure plants keep multiplying (Russell). Pollinating insects include bees, butterflies, moths and flies (mbgnet.net). Finally, fennel attracts lady buds which like, wasps will eat pests in the garden. (Hoffman). These plants work perfectly with the successive garden making sure pest population stay low and the plants can flourish.
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