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Making Your Garden Work Double Time with Intercropping

Intercropping is a space-saving technique in which you grow fast-maturing, smaller crops among slower-growing, larger vegetables. By the time the bigger plants start to take over, you have already harvested the crops in between. Intercropping makes one bed as productive as two.

tip.eps The best crops for intercropping include beets, carrots, lettuce, onions, radishes, spinach, and turnips. Use these examples to help you decide how to do it:

Plant lettuce, carrots, or radishes among young tomatoes and broccoli. For that matter, plant carrots and radishes wherever you have open space.

Plant turnips and other root crops among your cabbage.

Plant spinach or lettuce under your bean trellis. As the weather warms, the beans will shade the spinach and keep it cool.

Plant green onions between rows of corn.

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