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Arne ChristensenContributor IIOctober 23, 2008

In his book, Go Long, Jerry Rice claims that he retired from the NFL with very little dancing experience. Strictly speaking he may be right, but many 49er fans remember his younger days, when he brought out a Cabbage Patch Dance to celebrate his touchdowns. Rice didn’t invent the dance, but he brought it to new levels of fame. I don’t recall exactly when he started the dance-it may have been 1986-but in 1987, when he scored 23 touchdowns in the 12 games he played, it became a primary calling card for Rice.

Who were the Cabbage Patch Kids? They were a group of dolls that had tan skin, stubby bodies made from fabric, and long, stringy hair that looked like yarn. Their mid-‘80s cousins were the Smurfs and the Garbage Pail Kids. If this doesn’t ring a bell, you can think of them as the Power Rangers, Tickle Me Elmos, Beanie Babies, and Tamagotchis of their day.

In Go Long, Rice describes his dance as “a simple move of raising one's shoulders and pretending to churn butter.” You can see black-and-white pictures of Rice scoring a touchdown against the Bears in 1987 and then doing his Cabbage Patch Dance here. You can also find clips of the Cabbage Patch Dance on YouTube and elsewhere for a fuller visualization of the dance.

Rice retired his dance either toward the end of the 1987 season or before the 1988 season. In Go Long, he explains: “On Saturday nights before games, if we had won the previous week, the coaching staff showed us a highlight reel of the best plays from the latest victory. Watching myself celebrate like an ass embarrassed me, though most of my teammates thought it was funny. I didn't need to show off by dancing after scoring. . . . Joe [Montana] and Roger [Craig] were the consummate pros and they didn't need to show off, so why should I?”

For a few years after retiring the dance Rice still had some eye-catching routines on the field, including having a pristine white Flash 80 towel hanging down from his belt and sometimes pointing into the crowd after scoring on a touchdown play. But, he gradually settled down into simply being the best receiver in the NFL. After his final season with the Seahawks in 2004 and retirement the next summer, Rice found himself with time on his hands.

He put in a brief stay at Spike TV, where he was the biggest star of the first season of a show called Pros vs. Joes that pits sports stars against ordinary guys off the street. Then, as you probably already know, he decided to go on Dancing with the Stars in early 2006, and came in second place in the show’s second season. The next season, in late 2006, Emmitt Smith tried his hand at the show and came in first.

What’s the explanation for why former NFL stars and other sports figures do so well on Dancing with the Stars? I’m not sure, but certainly in the NFL and most other sports, it’s crucial to develop and strengthen your footwork and balance in order to succeed, and those are two skills that translate very easily into dancing. In the case of Rice and Smith, it’s quite possible that the wear and tear from so many years in the NFL gave their dance moves a softness, lightness, and balance that made them look very good on the dance floor, whereas if they had been on a dancing show earlier in their lives they would have moved too quickly and too aggressively.

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The Running Man, The Roger Rabbit, The Reebok, & The Cabbage Patch

This pancocojams post provides information about four old school Hip Hop dances from the mid to late 1980s: the Running Man, the Roger Rabbit, the Reebok, and the Cabbage Patch.

This post also showcases YouTube instructional videos of these dances. All of these videos include captions.

A few selected comments from these YouTube videos are also included in this post.

Thanks to the unknown creators of these dances, and thanks to all those who are featured in these videos. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to Howcast, the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/02/old-school-hip-hop-dance-video.html for the pancocojams post entitled "Old School Hip Hop Dance Video (Demonstrating the Smurf, The Prep, the Reebok, The Wop, The Cabbage Patch, The Happy Feet, and the Fila Dances)"

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
After reading the comments in this video's discussion thread and similar comments in the pancocojams post entitled "Old School Hip Hop Dance Video (Demonstrating the Smurf, The Prep, the Reebok, The Wop, The Cabbage Patch, The Happy Feet, and the Fila Dances)" whose link is given above it occurs to me that while there are basic steps for specific old school Hip Hop dances, those steps may differ within the same period of time, and/or within the same racial population [which created that dance], and/or within the same nation depending on where a person lives. Also or the same basic steps (movements) for a specific Hip Hop dance may have a different name/s within the same period of time, within the same racial population which created that dance...

Further complicating this is that it's possible that a specific old school (and new school) Hip Hop dance may have a different name even within the same geographical location (city/state) in the same period of time, and in the same racial population which created that dance within the same nation.

Also, a specific old school dance may be renamed by people in other decades before or after it becomes popular at a certain time. A contemporary dance may be given the name of an older dance even though it doesn't have all or any of the basic steps of that older dance.

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INFORMATION ABOUT THESE DANCES
1. the Running Man
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_man_(dance)*
"The Running Man (aka The Hungry Caterpillar), originally an African dance, is a street and fad dance that originated between late 1986–early 1987 and was performed notably by Janet Jackson in the video of her hit "Rhythm Nation" and subsequently on the Rhythm Nation World Tour and various live performances. An early performance of the dance was in a Fela Kuti concert called "Cross Examination" by one of his back-up dancers/ex-wife in Berlin in 1978.[1] Additionally, it was performed by MC Hammer, Bobby Brown, Milli Vanilli, and Vanilla Ice during their live concert shows and music videos, but achieved renewed popularity in the 2000s. It is also used in some forms of the Melbourne Shuffle dance style. It consists of a hopping or sliding step done in such a way at speed to simulate a runner."
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The Wikipedia page for the Running Man dance that I accessed on April 19, 2022 is different from the one that I quoted above. Here's a portion of that entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_man_(dance)
"The Running Man is a street and fad dance popularized by Bobby Brown. It consists of a hopping or sliding step done in such a way at speed to simulate a runner. Notable practictionaers of the dance are MC Hammer, Janet Jackson, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, Milli Vanilli, and Vanilla Ice during their live concert shows and music videos. It achieved somewhat of a memed revival during in the 2000s, where it is performed in some manner of the Melbourne shuffle dance style. A variation of the dance can be seen in a Fela Kuti concert called "Cross Examination" by one of his back-up dancers/ex-wife in Berlin in 1978.[1]…
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Notice that there's no mention of the African origin of that dnce and not mention of it being performed by a dancer in (Nigerian afrobeat founder) Fela Kuti's group.

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2. the Roger Rabbit
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Rabbit#Legacy
Roger Rabbit is a fictional animated anthropomorphic rabbit character. The character first appeared in author Gary K. Wolf's 1981 novel, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

[...]

The book and character were later reenvisioned in Disney's hit 1988 live-action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. In the film version, Roger is a cartoon character in Hollywood during the Golden age of American animation. The various toons live in a Los Angeles enclave known as "Toontown", and act out animated shorts in the same way human actors act out feature films. Roger is framed for the murder of a famous Hollywood film producer and owner of Toontown, and he seeks out Valiant to help clear his name...

[...]

The Roger Rabbit became a popular dance move in America in the early 1990s.[10][11] It was named after the floppy movements of the Roger Rabbit cartoon character. In movement, the Roger Rabbit dance is similar to the Running Man, but done by skipping backwards with arms performing a flapping gesture as if hooking one's thumbs on suspenders.[12]"...

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3. the Reebok Dance

Note: There's no Wikipedia page on this dance.

The transcript for the Howcast video (embedded below) indicates that the Reebok dance 1985 is named after the Reebok brand of tennis shoes "when Reeboks first came out. Again, another dance named after whatever was popular at that time. Reeboks took over in 1985, I imagine. So this dance is called the Reebok." [read the transcript under the Reebok dance video below.

Here's an excerpt that includes that 1985 time frame "when Reebok took over":
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reebok
..."1980s–1990s
In 1982, Reebok debuted the Reebok Freestyle aerobics shoe, the first athletic shoe designed for women.[5][18] Fitness professional Gin Miller became the face of "Step Reebok," the company's aerobics fitness campaign and program.[16] The following year, Reebok's sales were $13 million.[19]

The company began expanding from tennis and aerobics shoes to running and basketball throughout the mid to late 1980s, the largest segments of the athletic footwear industry at the time.[20] Fireman bought the British-based parent company in 1984. In 1985, Reebok had its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol RBK.[15][20]

In 1986, Reebok switched its logo from the Union Jack flag it had since its founding, to the Vector logo - an abstract Union Jack streak across a race track - which mirrored the design of the side flashes of its shoes[21][22] The switch signaled the transition of the company into a performance brand as it began licensing deals with professional athletes in the NBA and NFL. [23]"...

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4. the Cabbage Patch
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbage_Patch_(dance)
"The Cabbage Patch is a dance involving putting both hands together in fists and moving them in a horizontal, circular motion.[1][2]

Several songs about the dance have been released:

Rare Item & the Bud Buddies - "The Cabbage Patch Dance" (1983)
Delmar Donnell - "In the Cabbage Patch" (1984)
Experience Unlimited - "Doing the Cabbage Patch" (1986)
XII - "Cabbage Patch" (1986)
R.P. Cola - "The Cabbage Patch Dance" (1987)
Gucci Crew II - "The Cabbage Patch" (1987)[3]
World Class Wreckin' Cru - "Cabbage Patch" (1987)[4]

The dance became very popular, showing up in many dance clubs in America. The dance's name is derived from the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls or the use of "cabbage" as slang for paper money. There are many online videos demonstrating how to do the dance.[5][6] The dance was originally celebratory and often associated with being super cool and rad. [7]"

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SHOWCASE VIDEOS:

Video #1: How to Do the Running Man | Hip-Hop Dancing

Howcast, Sep 10, 2012
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Selected comments (numbered for referencing purposes only)
1. Julian Nailuj, 2016
"Ladies and gents, this is THE ORIGINAL RUNNING MAN, not that toe-tapping bs on social media."

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2. calionetime, 2016
"Now that's the real running man. Forget the running man challenge! Kids"

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3. L O, 2016
"This is the real running man, the one we did & still do when we're feeling nostalgic lol The running man challenge is more of a shuffle but glad the kids got scholarships from it :)"

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4. Jesse Aguilar, 2016
"original running man dance step did by MC Hammer"

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5. MITHO, 2015
"That's not exactly how we did this TWENTYFIVE YEARS AGO! ;)"

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6. McFlySwatter, 2015
"+MITHO I agree.. I was watching it going umm noooo I don't think we did it like that lol"

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7. shannabanana310, 2016
"Dang, was it 25 years ago? I'm just wondering why all of the old 90s dance names are being recycled with something totally different. I'm glad to see this video though. 👏"

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8. SanbaiSan, 2017
"Well, feel free to post your "old-man" version then! :P"

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How to Do the Roger Rabbit | Hip-Hop Dancing

Howcast, Sep 11, 2012
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Selected comments (numbered for referencing purposes only)
1. JurassicClark96, 2014
"Ohhhhh this is the Bobby Brown move from Every Little Step!

Been looking for this forever! Thanks Howcast!"

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2. tracy smith, 2015
"Like Rosie Perez at the start of "Do the Right Thing. "

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3. Denise DeniseHuxtable, 2017
"he put some "stank" on it at the end I see you"
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"Stank" is an African American form of the word stink (to smell badly). "Stank" means to "really stink."

"Put some stank on it" means to add your own variations, style, or flair to what you are doing, and in so doing make it better. An relatively oldish African American saying from around the 1970s or so is that a person "added their own flavor to the mix". In the case of dancing, this may mean that you are dancing harder (more energetically) and/or dancing more sensuously. When people are very energetic in their dancing they tend to sweat. When a lot of people in a room dance energetically, they and that room starts to stink (smell funky). "Stank" here is a positive that means the same thing as "funk" (or "funky"). That's why people who sing or dance funky, and music that is funky" are usually considered positives in African American culture.

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4. 0e0, 2019
"it's a pretty corny dance nowadays without that....i think she's contractually obligated to give it a bit more credibility

my corny is too strong...wholesome"

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5. Hellofacutie, 2020
"This is the dance move that Oaktown 357 did with MC hammer!"

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Video #2: How to Do the Reebok | Hip-Hop Dancing

Howcast, Sep 21, 2012
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Here's the transcript of this video: https://www.howcast.com/videos/505204-how-to-do-the-reebok-hip-hop-dancing
I'm back with my friends. My friends, my friends. I'm back. We are going to show you a dance called the Reebok.

1985, when Reeboks first came out. Again, another dance named after whatever was popular at that time. Reeboks took over in 1985, I imagine. So this dance is called the Reebok.

We're going to start with the feet first. Right leg, your left, my right. Picking up the right leg, we're going to go in, step down. One, pick it up again, and two, and you're going to do three steps. Right, left, right. Let's try it on this side, and down. Back, down, and left, right, left. Good. So you can already tell your body's rocking a little bit. Just keep that motion.

Let's try it again. Six, seven, eight, and one, two, three, and four, and five, six, seven, and eight.

Now let's add arms. Arms are whatever you want. Some people punch opposite arm and leg, and bring it around. Some people use both arms the whole time. Pick whichever one you like, and do that. You're free to do so. So we have five, slowly with the arms, seven, eight. You want to go away. One, two, three, and four, and five, six, seven, again. And one, two, three, and four, and five, six, and seven, and eight.

Let's try it with music."
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Selected comments (numbered for referencing purposes only)
1. Gemini Blaze, 2012
"Was always wondering what the name was when Will Smith was doing it back in Fresh Prince days. .."

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2. Ariana Villegas, 2013
"This step doesn't call Reebok, this step is Cabbage patch!!"

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3. danielle amara, 2013
"yes you need to look deeply in oldskool dictionary reebok is more rambo dance more gang and this is the cabbage patch plz"

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4. Sean Asher, 2014
"nooooooo, this is not the reebok!! old skoolers are laughing hard at this video
sorry, but you guys are doing the cabbage patch."

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5. Chocolate _ Deluxe, 2017
"Sean Asher - This is the REEBOK!"

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6. Urban Beatz, 2017
"+Phony Braxton no its not"

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7. GLjunior, 2015
"that's the Reebok, the cabbage patch you stand still and move your hands in a stirring motion"

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8. James Kent, 2017
"so I'm guessing this was the cabbage patch and then changed to the Reebok"

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Video #3: How to Do the Cabbage Patch | Hip-Hop Dancing

Howcast, Sep 24, 2012
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Selected comments (numbered for referencing purposes only)
1. Kenpachi, 2012
"this isn't the cabbage patch i know..."

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2. Shakaama, 2012
"i've watched 4 videos already, and this is the closest they get to actually doing the cabbage patch. it's not a 4 count. it's a 2 & 3 count."

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3. meiyin09, 2015
"This is the West Coast Cabbage Patch."

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4. Azizi Powell, 2020
"Kenpachi, I showed this video to my daughter and she said this is how she remembers doing the Cabbage Patch (in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the 1980s.)

(We're African American, btw.)"

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5. Mandeep Dhaliwal, 2019
"this isn’t even the real cabbage patch smh..."

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6. Prodigal Son, 2019
"Lol. I love this. I love the way he moves and his expressions. And how he lowkey chased her at the end. I’m over here laughing like a little kid. That was funny"

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7. onecutesweetypie, 2019
"These two are great!!! Awesome tutorial and fun video!! Love it!!"

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Why were children found in cabbage in Rus'? | Unknown History of Russia - myths and facts

“We found a child in a cabbage” is a very ancient expression, but people still say that. True, few people know about the origins of this phrase. There are several versions of its origin, which to some extent refute each other.

The first version - Kapustitsa and Kapustnik

Cabbage in Rus' began on September 27, the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and ended on October 8 - on Sergei the Kapustnik. Then folk holidays began, Kapustitsy and Kapustniki. The landowners called the youth to them: the girls chopped vegetables for leaven, the guys dragged sacks. All this was accompanied by funny jokes, jokes, direct communication of young people. After all the cabbage was fermented, the owner organized a holiday for the workers. And on this holiday, Kapustsa, couples were often tied up.

Boys and girls got together, got married and had children. If a child was born to a couple whose relationship began on Kapustsa, they could talk about the baby - they found it in cabbage. The humorous saying stuck. Some researchers said that during the days of Kapustnitsa and Kapustnikov, some couples could sin in the hayloft, the result - an illegitimate child was born-kapustnitsa

On Kapustnitsa

The second version - premature birth during the harvesting of cabbage

many children were born after 9months after the celebration. More precisely, if everything went well, it happened. The kids were due in October.

A little earlier, women went to harvest cabbages. Only they were engaged in this: it was believed that cabbage symbolizes the feminine, and its cutting is the cutting of the umbilical cord, as if connecting the vegetable with the earth. The process was sacred, the participation of men was not allowed.

But sacredness did not negate the severity of labor. Therefore, premature births could happen on the field. And then children were literally found in cabbage - they didn’t know about hospitals and, especially, maternity hospitals, of course. But to think that all peasant women gave birth in the field is also a stereotype. Preterm birth, emergency, could really provoke the birth of a child right on the cabbage ridge. Especially if this is not the first pregnancy, the body has gone through childbirth more than once, the birth canal is developed and everything could go very quickly. But in general, a woman whose contractions began in the field was tried to be brought home as soon as possible. The midwife was already called there and the process took on a more familiar, calm look.

A peasant woman in a field with a baby

The third version - cabbage helped in childbirth

Often women in Rus' went to give birth in a bathhouse. The baths were then heated in a black way, therefore laying sheets, which for various reasons would have to be thrown away after childbirth, was not profitable. The benches could be covered with a clean cabbage leaf.

In addition to practicality, another goal was pursued: the cabbage leaf was considered medicinal. The vegetable itself looks like a fruit, this similarity endowed it with magical properties - to help the mother in childbirth, to fill the child with strength.

If an infant was injured during delivery, a cabbage leaf could be tied to it. Such was the method of treating cephalohematoma, which in folk medicine can be seen in some places even to our times.

A woman gives birth in a bathhouse

The fourth version is the rejection of the child

It was only a ritual, of course, the parents did not really reject the baby. But for many centuries people still observed certain rituals, echoes of paganism affected. Infant mortality was very high, in order to prevent evil spirits from decorating the life of a baby, they tried to deceive them.

For this it was necessary to pretend that the child was not native. They could find him on the road: hide him in a bush, wait until someone goes: the person who noticed the baby then gave the child to the parent of the child from his own hands, since at the right time the parent came out of hiding.

The person who found the baby could become the named father or mother. If it was a stranger, except for the sacred function, he no longer performed any role. If a friend or a neighbor, then he took the responsibility to help in the upbringing of the child. In the event of the death of the parents, the named parent took the children to his family. As in the case of Christian godparents, for example.

Foundling

So the child could be "thrown" on the cabbage beds, imitating what he was found there. Evil spirits "believed" that the baby was a foundling, not native, and did not take his life from his parents - this was precisely the essence of the ritual. That is, it turned out that the child was found in cabbage.

This was not the only way to deceive the evil spirits. The child was both “sold” and “bought”, hoping that this would cause confusion among the impure forces. Not only cabbage beds could be the place where the child was found. Even with the widespread spread of Christianity, many pagan customs and rituals continued to be observed.

Today, the expression “found in cabbage” is also played up in an interesting way: strollers and envelopes for discharge are made in the form of a ripe fruit, photo zones with cabbage are set up in the maternity hospital itself. But this is already taking on an exceptionally comic, sympathetic character.

Compacted bed. How to double the yield

The technology of mixed crops of vegetables allows you to double the yield of each bed. The principle is simple - growing several compatible crops on the same ridge and overseeding friendly plants in the aisle or inside the rows.

Irina Viktorova, an expert from TN, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, is well versed in the secrets of compacted beds.

With compacted crops, the main crop and compactors are distinguished, as a rule, these are crops with a short growing season. Here are some basic schemes of such crops.

Classics of the genre

The main crop is potatoes, compactors: cabbage, onion and radish. In early spring, we sow radishes on the sides of a bed 1 m wide, in the middle - two rows of early cabbage with row spacing of 35 cm, and four days later - onions on a feather. After removing the radishes, we plant potatoes according to the scheme 70 x 35 cm. After harvesting the cabbage in June, potatoes remain to grow.

Tomatoes are the main crop; thickened with onion, garlic and radish. The width of the bed-bed is 1 m. We plant garlic in autumn (from September 29 to October 5) in two rows every 15 cm. In early spring, we place four rows of onions in the center of the ridge, and radishes on the sides. In mid-May, we remove the onion on a feather and plant two rows of tomatoes with a distance between rows of 45–50 cm. . Onions and radishes in the first period protect seedlings of cucumbers from cold winds. Radishes are harvested early, and turnip onions grow well with cucumbers.

The main crops are carrots and beets, and the compactors are lettuce, dill and radish. In the center of the ridge we sow beets or carrots (four rows with row spacing of 12 cm), and we occupy the edges of the ridges with lettuce, spinach, radish or dill, which are harvested early; the main crops grow until late autumn.

Main crop - cauliflower, compactors: lettuce and late potatoes. From the beginning of spring field work, cauliflower is planted and lettuce is sown, and potatoes are planted in 15–20 days. Cauliflower and lettuce are harvested in June, and potatoes in autumn.

Practice compacted crops of tomatoes and early cabbage in a well-fertilized and cultivated area. First, we plant potted cabbage seedlings with row spacings of 1.4–1.5 m and a row spacing of 30–33 cm, and later we plant tomato seedlings, placing them between rows of cabbage.

Growing potatoes and peas together, tomatoes (three rows) and corn (one row), carrots and cucumbers gives good results. The seeds of both crops are mixed and sown. The roots of carrots are deep, and cucumbers - in the upper soil layer. Instead of carrots (coulis culture), dill or cauliflower can be sown.

By placing early potatoes (50 x 50 cm pattern) and sweet corn in a row, with good care, we get an excellent yield of both crops.

If you sow onions, radishes, sorrel, dill between the rows of potatoes and tomatoes, you can provide yourself with greenery for the summer.

By planting garlic in strawberry beds, experienced gardeners get a good harvest of it and save the berry crop from pests and diseases. We place strawberries on the beds with row spacing of 60–70 cm, maintaining a distance of 30–35 cm in the beds. We plant garlic cloves in the row spacing of strawberries to a depth of 5–6 cm from September 25.

One of the features of compacted crops is the cultivation of corn, sorghum as backstage in the cultivation of cucumbers, peppers, eggplants, melons and other crops. Rows of protective rocker plants are placed perpendicular to the prevailing winds (wind rose). They protect vegetable crops from cold and heat, improve the microclimate by increasing the carbon dioxide content in the air and the overall moisture capacity.

Friends

The most loyal and friendly to other crops in the greenhouse are spinach, radish, bush beans, lettuce. Many vegetables (especially potatoes and radishes) will enjoy being paired with legumes. Some plants are planted nearby simply from the principle of “do no harm”: garlic or onions on a feather will not interact with the strawberries growing in the garden, but they will not interfere with it in any way, perfect for filling the remaining area.

Plants grow well next to each other in the following combinations: tomato - onion, parsley, celery, beets, lettuce, radish, green beans; cabbage - celery, dill, lettuce; cucumber - onion, radish, pepper, eggplant, dill, parsley, basil, lettuce; eggplant - beans, peas, basil, cucumber, onion; pepper - onion, parsley, celery, cucumbers, cabbage, carrots; radish - parsley, zucchini, beans, asparagus; strawberries - onions, garlic, marigolds, parsley.

Antagonists

No less combinations where neighbors oppress each other. There are especially aggressive crops that oppress literally everything in a row - fennel, decorative beans, wormwood.

Among other similar antagonists that are poorly compatible on the same bed, one can distinguish such unsuccessful combinations: onion / garlic - sage, legumes (peas, beans) and cabbage; tomato - turnip, potato, kohlrabi, dill, peas; cucumbers - potatoes, sage, watermelon; potatoes - celery, pumpkin, cucumbers, tomatoes; beets - mustard, dill, potatoes; cabbage - beans, parsley, carrots, tomato.

In addition to the use of resources, living together can be influenced by the ability of one of the plants to repel or attract insects, thereby protecting the partner from pests, even if they do not threaten him. Everyone knows a successful pair of carrots / onions, where the latter repels a carrot fly. Or celery (lettuce) / cabbage, when the first scares off white butterflies and earthen flea. Lettuce will protect cabbage from the invasion of slugs, radish will save cucumbers from leaf beetles and spider mites.

All-Purpose Parsley

Compact vegetable beds with herbs with strong aromas and flowers. So, marigolds, rosemary, nasturtium, calendula, matthiol, coriander secrete substances that repel insects and pests. Basil, hyssop, crocuses, thyme, asters, dahlias, heather attract insect pollinators. Mint, daisies, cumin, dill, chamomile, lavender, oregano attract other beneficial insects (for example, those that in turn destroy harmful ones).

Sage, lavender, borage, mint, chervil, parsley, chamomile, hyssop, yarrow, white lamb, valerian work well on almost all vegetables. Try planting these crops in rows or around beds to make your vegetables healthier and more resistant to pests.

Neighboring plants can not only compact plantings or protect against pests, but also improve the taste of each other. For example, basil and leafy salads enhance the taste of tomatoes, dill - the taste of cabbage, bush beans - the taste of radishes.

Due to the large removal of nutrients necessary for the plant to develop and form a crop, the soil in the greenhouse significantly loses its nutritional properties over time. In addition, pests and diseases can accumulate in it, reducing the yield and deteriorating the quality of vegetable products.

How to renew the soil before planting seedlings of tomatoes, sweet peppers, cucumbers and eggplants in a greenhouse, says Marina Vystupova, deputy head of the Rosselkhozcenter branch in the Tomsk region.

Replacing the soil is an extremely time-consuming process, so it is recommended to change the soil in the greenhouse every two or three years, the rest of the time, to increase fertility, you can add compost or humus, complex fertilizers and wood ash for digging.

To completely renew the soil, it is enough to remove the top layer 20-25 cm thick and replace it with a mixture of fresh soil from your site and nutrients: humus, manure, humus. If the soil is heavy, then part of the river sand can be added for looseness and water permeability.