Kitchen Garden

6 PLOT PLANS TO SAVE THE PLANET

1 GROW A FEW ANNUAL FLOWERS

ow just a few annual flowers in the corner of your plot or in between rows of long-term crops such as brassicas and sweetcorn. Not only will you enjoy the colour on your plot, you will encourage and help pollinators such as bees, insect predators and, more importantly, you will actually confuse the pests.

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