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Post by daylilydude on Jun 9, 2016 5:21:59 GMT -5
Anyone here practicing intercropping and can you let us know how it's working out for you? Intercropping...
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Post by brownrexx on Jun 9, 2016 8:45:17 GMT -5
Sometimes I plant shade loving veggies like lettuce in a place where they will be shaded by larger plants. The lettuce will be removed when it gets too hot anyway so it's a good use of space.
I don't generally plant any of my other plants too closely. I more prefer to utilize crop rotation and I like to keep a decent amount of space around most plants for good airflow.
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Post by bestofour on Aug 6, 2016 21:03:20 GMT -5
I'm going to plant fall green beans in with the tomatoes because the tomatoes will be done before the beans are ready and I'll just pull the tomato plants up.
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Post by spacecase0 on Aug 7, 2016 9:23:38 GMT -5
I have had it work well in the past, best one was letting the beans climb on the corn, but your varieties and timing have to be about perfect, have had the beans drag the corn to the ground in the past with poor timing
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Post by bestofour on Aug 11, 2016 20:35:05 GMT -5
What I have are bush beans so the climbing won't be an issue. It may still be too hot though. Gonna plant them tomorrow though. We shall see.
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Post by daylilydude on Aug 20, 2016 9:42:31 GMT -5
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Post by meandtk on Aug 20, 2016 13:39:54 GMT -5
Basil in tomatoes works well. Beans in the corn has not worked well for me. Then again, beans in general have not performed well for me this year.
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Post by bestofour on Aug 26, 2016 12:59:17 GMT -5
I always plant basil with the tomatoes.
The beans haven't even broken ground. It's been so hot and dry I'm not surprised.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Aug 27, 2016 12:33:17 GMT -5
Yes, basil gets along with tomatoes in the garden and in the kitchen.
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Post by bestofour on Aug 31, 2016 10:34:48 GMT -5
The beans are up and something is eating them. I'm thinking of doing something really bad and spraying.
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Post by stratcat on Sept 5, 2016 13:02:31 GMT -5
Volunteer sunflowers sprouted one year near tomatoes and I let them run. The tomato plants near them didn't do as well, in my experience.
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Post by meandtk on Sept 5, 2016 13:06:06 GMT -5
Volunteer sunflowers sprouted one year near tomatoes and I let them run. The tomato plants near them didn't do as well, in my experience. I've read that they do that to almost everything that is planted by them, perhaps with the exception of cucumbers.
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Post by spacecase0 on Sept 5, 2016 21:25:56 GMT -5
I plant Purslane under most things, seems to help corn, sorghum, and squash, not sure about other plants because I have never tried.
I have reports from friends that watermelon tastes way better if you have purslane growing at a ground cover near it
next year I am going to cover the garden with it
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Post by bestofour on Sept 7, 2016 21:17:42 GMT -5
I planted purslane in a spot one year and it took over and spread like crazy and grew up and out. It was horrible. I've tried to get rid of it but it shows up once in a while. Good luck with that.
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Post by spacecase0 on Sept 7, 2016 23:00:38 GMT -5
I had purslane in one of my garden plots a few years ago, and I did not water it enough and it all died before it went to seed, had to get it from somewhere else again
sounds like you live in a wet place, or I live in a very dry place
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Post by september on Sept 8, 2016 9:01:34 GMT -5
I have lots of wild purslane in my garden, I use some of it in tossed salads early in the summer, and try to weed out most of it, but the amount never seems to diminish. Last year I got really lazy and left it to grow under my tomatoes as a green cover. Didn't seem to be a problem, as the roots don't go that far down and actually looked kind of pretty. But I should have pulled it before the flowers went to seed. I rotate my raised beds, and I didn't like the looks of my corn beds when every danged inch was covered with a red haze as the seeds sprouted this spring in the former tomato beds. Too much of a "good" thing!
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Post by bestofour on Sept 9, 2016 22:03:07 GMT -5
september never thought of using purslane in a salad. Great idea.
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Post by september on Sept 10, 2016 11:10:38 GMT -5
Be sure you pick it in the morning before it's been in the sun for many hours. The flavor actually changes from day to night due to some photosynthetic process. Starts off with a more interesting citrusy note in the morning to just a grassy taste by afternoon. I often snack on purslane and lambs quarter (which tastes like spinach) when I am weeding my beds in early summer. I found a couple of recipes in a wild foods cookbook where purslane is cooked with other stuff, but have never tried it that way. Purslane is supposed to be chock full of all kinds of beneficial vitamins etc. www.chicagotribune.com/dining/recipes/sns-food-recipes-sides-purslane-story.html
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