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 When building soil or feeding hungry plants, go heavy on nitrogen fixers.  When building soil or feeding hungry plants, go heavy on nitrogen fixers. 
 +Nitrogin fixers come in all sizes from clover to shrubs, to trees such as black locust, alder, and acacia.
  
 Many **legumes**, **herbs** and not to forget **weeds!** improve the soil by adding suitable nitrogen via their roots, surrounding plants then can absorb these nutrients (nitrogen).  Many **legumes**, **herbs** and not to forget **weeds!** improve the soil by adding suitable nitrogen via their roots, surrounding plants then can absorb these nutrients (nitrogen). 
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-====== Grounddisinfectors /Bodemontsmetters ======+ 
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 +====== Nutrient Accumulators ====== 
 +Nutrient accumulators include: 
 +  ***Yarrow** 
 +  ***Chamomile**    
 +  ***Fennel**  
 +  ***Lamb’s quarters**  
 +  ***Chirory** 
 +  ***Dandelions** 
 +  ***Plantain**  
 +  **and many more... 
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 +Most of these plants are considered as weeds; and they make their living ass pioneer species: tough sundependent, fatgrowing and short lived.These early colonists invade bare or depleted soils. where one of there rolls is to accumulate nutrients in their roots and leaves. Each fall these plants die and rot, pumping a fat load of minerals into the soil. The enriched earth is then ready  for the next successionary phase of less emphemerial, more fastidious plants such as perennial herbs, shrubs and trees. 
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 +====== Pestcontrollers/under and above the ground ======
    
  
   ***Tagetes** - Africaantjes: very strong; preferred food for spider mites; function as a sacrificial plant.   (heeft Flora)      ***Tagetes** - Africaantjes: very strong; preferred food for spider mites; function as a sacrificial plant.   (heeft Flora)   
-  ***Marigolds** - Goudsbloem -Calendula officinalis: preferred food for spider mites; function as a sacrificial plant. +  ***Marigolds** - Goudsbloem - Calendula officinalis: preferred food for spider mites; function as a sacrificial plant. 
-  ***Nasturiums** - Oostindische kers - Tropaeolum (L.): for all grounds: good groundcover and/ or climber  (Flora)+  ***Wild marigold** - Tagetes minuta: repels soil nematodes 
 +  ***Nasturiums** - Oostindische kers - Tropaeolum (L.): it deters white flies for all grounds: good groundcover and/ or climber  (Flora) 
 +  ***Elderberry** 
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 ====== Roots ====== ====== Roots ======
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