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+====== Nutrient Accumulators ======
+  ***Yarrow**
+  ***Chamomile**
+  ***Fennel**
+  ***Lamb’s quarters**
+  ***Chirory**
+  ***Dandelions**
+  ***Plantain**
+  *and many more...
+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.
 ====== Pestcontrollers/under and above the ground ======
+Some plants secrete compounds that repel a few specific pests in the soil or above. Examples are
   ***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.