Meanwhile, I keep experimenting with companion planting, with mixed success.
Last week, it cleared biotech sugar beets for planting, with some restrictions.
In the second choice, it would approve planting with rules to prevent the contamination of non-GM crops.
American-style church planting, with a conservative evangelical ethos, has had some success among middle-class professionals.
Others tried cutting the corn down and back planting with soybeans, but they got pods with no beans.
They can also just be outflanked by planting with lurid combinations of geraniums, which have the added advantage of being very agreeable and flowering almost the entire time.
On an ostentatiously unpresidential budget of $200, they prepared the soil of the South Lawn for planting with the help of a local junior school.
Since the roots are not going to grow much over the winter, planting with or without the pot is up to you.
Mr. Pierce says he has noticed a slowdown in new planting with the onset of the housing market crisis, "but only at the $3 million and under level.
Jo's pool is also surrounded by soft planting, with striking hostas, irises and astilbes, as well as more conventional pond planting such as good old-fashioned water lilies.
Companion planting with basil will help deter red spider mites and aphids, and provide you with a suitable kitchen companion, too (the basil, not the bugs).
