{"id":10710,"date":"2016-08-06T09:47:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T08:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10710"},"modified":"2016-07-31T16:01:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T15:01:30","slug":"poppy-power-to-spoil-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/poppy-power-to-spoil-vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"Poppy   Companion Planting with Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Opium Poppy by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3870802174\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2543\/3870802174_e68204f578.jpg\" alt=\"Opium Poppy\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Think before you allow poppies to proliferate.<br \/>\nPoppies rob a lot of goodness from your soil.<\/p>\n<h2>Poppies and Vegetables<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Poppies grown close to purple sprouting broccoli and other brassicas will inhibit the plants and reduce your potential crop.<\/li>\n<li>Poppies that are planted close together have the ability to kill off other plants.<\/li>\n<li>Odd self sown poppies may not have a dramatic effect but better safe than sorry.<\/li>\n<li>Beans and Peas that &#8216;fix&#8217; nitrogen back into the soil may not appear to suffer such an effect but take care with green leaf crops.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Poppies as a Weed<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The large quantity of seed produced from a few plants can cause poppies to become weed like infestations.<\/li>\n<li>If I could convert the latex into a useful crop as they do in Afghanistan it may be another story<\/li>\n<li>Seed remains viable in your soil for many years. One years seeding = many years of weeding<\/li>\n<li>Long tap roots make some poppies hard to weed. If you break the root you may get two plants next time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"poppy seedhead shakers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5207023577\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5286\/5207023577_75b5598c87.jpg\" alt=\"poppy seedheads\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Uses of Poppies and Seeds<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Seed from the opium poppy Papaver somniferum can be crushed to form seed oil.<\/li>\n<li>Poppy seeds are used, whole or ground, as an ingredient in many foods such as bread and baked products.<\/li>\n<li>Different varieties of poppy seed are used as a spice, a condiment, a decorative garnish and a thickener in food.<\/li>\n<li>Seeds can be used in bird seed mixes<\/li>\n<li>Poppy is popular in many different international cuisines.<\/li>\n<li>The crop is grown for the production of opium, morphine, codeine and the alkaloid thebaine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Related try<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CEYQFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fgardenerstips.co.uk%2Fblog%2Fflowers%2Fpoppies-from-seed%2F&amp;rct=j&amp;q=poppies%20gardeners%20tips&amp;ei=CWReTpSDO4628QOv9rDEAw&amp;usg=AFQjCNFn2Mdf5MvJV4ppM5MZuljHTpmQtQ&amp;cad=rja\"> Growing Poppies from Seed<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poppies can get you addicted so why shouldn&#8217;t they harm other plants as well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}