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- Mixed culture in permaculture
- What is a mixed culture?
- General to mixed culture
- Useful combinations for the Permakulturgarten
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Mixed culture in permaculture
In permaculture, plants are grown mixed on a bed. But behind what looks like random chaos to the untrained eye, there is a lot of planning and a sophisticated system. Especially important in the cultivation is to pay attention, which plants are compatible with each other well. Find out below how to create a healthy mixed culture in your Permaculture garden.
What is a mixed culture?
Today, monoculture is practiced in industrial agriculture, meaning that only a variety of fruit or vegetables is cultivated on large areas. This has the great disadvantage that this culture is extremely susceptible to diseases and pests. If only one plant is affected by something, all the others are also affected, since they are tau of plants of the same species. As a result, industrial (and mostly harmful) chemicals are used to protect monocultures from diseases and pests.
In a mixed culture, the risk of infestation is significantly lower. Firstly, not all crops are endangered when e.g. a Colorado beetle strays into the garden, but only the potatoes. On the other potato beetles like potatoes very much, but abhor linen. If potatoes are planted together with flax, they are of course protected against Colorado beetles. And that is precisely the idea of the mixed culture: to combine plants so that they protect each other.