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Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange with me, Arthur Parkinson and Sarah Raven.

In this episode, we're going to be talking about a really important group of plants known as the companion plants,

which are plants that will support both the ornamental garden and the vegetable garden

in being pest-free, full of good insects and resorting you producing

wonderful crops of either flowers or vegetables. And I know at Perch Hill, the veg bank is always

a tapestry of both things to eat and things that look beautiful. And they both combine to create this

Eden place of not needing to use any chemicals or pesticides because the plants are working together.

So I know this is something that Sarah has always been very passionate about

because it not only makes a space work organically, it also makes a space look gorgeous.

Companion planting is a win-win situation.

I mean, we discussed the plants for birds, bees and butterflies two or three episodes ago, didn't we? Yeah.

But I do feel companion planting is just a horrible modern phrase, but it's a no-brainer because your

garden looks lovely and your garden benefits from looking lovely. And so for me, it's like the

same thing as cut and come again plants, which I'm equally obsessed by, which is I just don't

understand why people don't grow the veg that are cut

and come again, that you can go out and harvest on a Friday and go back the following Wednesday

and they've grown back again. So it's the same thing. I just think it's a win-win. So which are the

things that you're going to use for companion planting this year? Well, it's a nice thing because it's where the sort of ornamental garden meets the veg garden.

The fact is that a lot of these companion plants are your classic cut flowers, particularly

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