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  • From: Pam Twin Oaks <pam AT twinoaks.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] interplanting
  • Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:47:31 -0400

Richard

We regularly have a bed of lettuce with peanuts down the middle. We make sure to plant romaines or small bibbs, (not sprawling looseleaf lettuce), and transplant them around the same time we sow the peanuts. We're zone 7, central Virginia, so I think it would work for you too.

We've also, when desperate, done a 3-way planting, sowing peas in the center of a bed of over-wintered spinach, then pulled the spinach and planted lettuce either side of the peas. Adding some more compost is essential.

How about okra in the middle of a lettuce bed? We've done okra in the middle of spring planted cabbage. We have to remove the bigger flatter leaves from the cabbage from time to time.

Pam, Twin Oaks, VA

<Any ideas on interplanting within lettuce rows in beds,
removing the early crop to let the later crop fill the bed?  Prefer
undersowing/interplanting with another salable crop.  We did this with
two rows of carrots between 3 rows of parsnips last year per bed, and
harvested the carrots out in summer, digging parsnips in winter.  What
other crop combos could work? Thanks, Richard Moyer>

  • Re: [Market-farming] interplanting, Pam Twin Oaks, 04/25/2010

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