Companion plants play various roles in the vegetable garden community. The bean companions featured here enhance harvests through pest reduction, weed management, and structural support.

The pong pong tree—also known as the “suicide tree”—may be a plot point in the season finale of the HBO series. But the plant was known to cause thousands of deaths a year in the past.

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