Companion Planting
Companion planting is a tried and true method for you to grow better veggies. Vegetable plants grown successfully close to each other are generally plants that grow at different rates. Cabbage is great when inter-cropped with lettuce and radishes.
Radishes are ready for use and out of the way before either lettuce or cabbage are hindered by their competition and lettuce is harvested by the time cabbage needs the room to properly complete it’s development.
Radish is widely used as a “marker”, sown with weaker and slow-germinating seeds as carrots, parsnips and the like. Radish seedlings break the soil crust so that the weaker seedlings are enabled to reach the surface more readily and mark the row for early cultivation.
Pole beans, corn and pumpkins are crops of similar requirements as to season and length of growing period that afford other examples, but of a less intensive order.
Companion Planting
Intensive planting of plants requires a garden soil of maximum fertility. Results will usually be unsatisfactory when vegetables are crowded in a gardening area that has not yet been sufficiently enriched to support a heavy plant population.
As long as you don’t try to squeeze too many vegetables into a small area then your soil and fertilizer needs are reduced.
Companion planting is beneficial to everyone. Home gardeners with limited space to large land farmers. The less land you have the better this helps you.
Here are a few suggestions. There are more groups but these are the most common.
Below is a graphic of most common plants for this.
Click on this link for a Companion Planting Chart version of the chart that is a lot larger.
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