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season: midsummer
section: who keeps good company
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## good

- a second planting of bush beans beside the cucumbers, both will run together to the frost
- a row of buckwheat where a bed has emptied, it brings the bees and feeds the soil for fall
- borage left to flower fully, it is the bees' last reliable cup before the heat breaks
- basil started again from cuttings, the second crop of the year is the strongest for pesto
- marigolds sown thick where the brassicas will follow, they leave the ground cleaner than they found it
- nasturtium tumbling between the squash hills, the bugs go to it and not the fruit
- a few sunflowers at the north end of the bed, where the shade falls on no one important

## bad

- never put fall brassicas where the spring brassicas stood, the cabbage worms remember the place
- do not return tomatoes to last year's tomato ground, the soil is asking for three years of rest
- fennel anywhere near the new bean rows, the seedlings will sulk all the way to fall
- garlic dropped in among the new peas, the peas will be small and bitter for it
- another round of squash where the first one suffered, the bug eggs are already waiting