Published in Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture, Vol. LXIV, Issue 2
Written by Ana-Maria-Roxana HANGAN, Alexandru COJOCARU, Gabriel-Ciprian TELIBAN, Petronica AMIȘCULESEI, Vasile STOLERU
Urban gardening is becoming more and more popular in our day to day lives. The desire for such activity arose due to the massive urban growth, the daily stress and an increasing desire to have fresh fruits and vegetables for personal use. Although the presence of a vegetable garden in a private urban or peri-urban area offers many advantages – a source of fresh vegetables and aromatic plants, as well as a recreational area – it faces a major disadvantage – pollution. In the city there are countless sources of pollution, the most common being the one created by traffic. Having this in mind, the purpose of this paper is to present an overview on selecting medicinal and decorative plants in order to provide protection for vegetables against urban pollution. The results gathered were used to create a list of plants including vegetable, medicinal and floricultural species, which helped to design a planting plan for a vegetable and decorative garden.
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