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| + | |style="background:LightYellow" | 18 ||style="background:LightYellow" | Companion plants onions and carrots ||style="background:LightYellow" | Carrots can be affected by carrot flies. Crop damage is caused by the up to 10 mm long larvae (maggots) feeding on the outer layers of the carrot root. Onions can be affected by onion flies which resemble houseflies. They lay their eggs in groups on the shoots, leaves and bulbs of host plants and on the ground nearby. The larvae create large cavities in bulbs. But onion flies don't seem to like the smell of carrots and carrot flies don't like onions. So onions and carrots make perfect companion plants. I always plant bulb onions in the lines of carrot seeds, each one or two hand widths an onion. I've never had problems with either carrot flies or onion flies but heard of many gardeners who had this problem. This method also has the advantage that you can see where you sowed the carrots. Carrots take long to germinate but bulb onions sprout fast.||style="background:LightYellow" | [[File:KarottenZwiebeln 266.JPG|120px|]]||style="background:LightYellow" | The photo shows another method of planting onions and carrots together.||style="background:LightYellow" | [[Carrot]] & [[Onion]] | ||
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|style="background:LightYellow" | 17 ||style="background:LightYellow" | Sorrel ||style="background:LightYellow" | Dock leaves or sorrel leaves (Rumex) are a traditional remedy for nettle stings. Dock leaves are edible too.||style="background:LightYellow" | [[File:Rumex, small plant, gardener's variety.jpg|120px|]]||style="background:LightYellow" | A gardener's cultivar of sorrel||style="background:LightYellow" | [[Rumex]] | |style="background:LightYellow" | 17 ||style="background:LightYellow" | Sorrel ||style="background:LightYellow" | Dock leaves or sorrel leaves (Rumex) are a traditional remedy for nettle stings. Dock leaves are edible too.||style="background:LightYellow" | [[File:Rumex, small plant, gardener's variety.jpg|120px|]]||style="background:LightYellow" | A gardener's cultivar of sorrel||style="background:LightYellow" | [[Rumex]] | ||
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Revision as of 18:44, 18 May 2012
- All these tips and more first appeared on this Facebook page
May 2012
Day Topic Tip Photo Photo caption More 18 Companion plants onions and carrots Carrots can be affected by carrot flies. Crop damage is caused by the up to 10 mm long larvae (maggots) feeding on the outer layers of the carrot root. Onions can be affected by onion flies which resemble houseflies. They lay their eggs in groups on the shoots, leaves and bulbs of host plants and on the ground nearby. The larvae create large cavities in bulbs. But onion flies don't seem to like the smell of carrots and carrot flies don't like onions. So onions and carrots make perfect companion plants. I always plant bulb onions in the lines of carrot seeds, each one or two hand widths an onion. I've never had problems with either carrot flies or onion flies but heard of many gardeners who had this problem. This method also has the advantage that you can see where you sowed the carrots. Carrots take long to germinate but bulb onions sprout fast. 
The photo shows another method of planting onions and carrots together. Carrot & Onion 17 Sorrel Dock leaves or sorrel leaves (Rumex) are a traditional remedy for nettle stings. Dock leaves are edible too. 
A gardener's cultivar of sorrel Rumex
