Mixed planting vegetables in the garden

In order to efficiently use the area of ​​a small land plot, many gardeners successfully use this method of planting vegetation, such as mixed planting of vegetables in a garden.

This article will tell you what it is, which schemes are practiced taking into account the characteristics of plants and what are the advantages of the method.

What it is

Avid gardeners even in the conditions of a small suburban area are trying to plant as many plants as possible. In such a situation, a combined planting of vegetable crops will be the best option - a method in which several vegetables or berries are grown in a limited area at once. A gardener needs to know about which plants can get along together, and which will conflict. It is important to plan in advance the order in which the vegetables will grow in order to get a good harvest.

Often mixed plantings consist of the main and accompanying cultures. So the latter protects the main, more valuable culture.

Mixing rules

The compatibility of planting vegetables in the garden will be successful if you follow certain rules:

1. Cultures of the same family cannot be near, because diseases and pests are common (except for pepper and eggplant).
2. Greens and vegetables that ripen early (radishes, lettuce, Chinese cabbage, onions, white mustard, early potatoes and cucumbers), combine with plants that ripen later (cucumbers, zucchini, pumpkin, eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, beets, cabbage).
3. It is necessary to arrange the crops so that the shade from the high ones does not fall on the low plants (the exception is seedlings, which, on the contrary, need shade). Watermelons and melons, eggplants, peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, and corn are considered plants that love light. In shading prefer to grow bay leaf, lettuce, parsley, belt, Chinese cabbage and seedlings of any plants. Moderate light is loved: cabbage, carrots, radishes, turnips, radish, garlic, beans, onions.

Illustrative examples

To better understand how to organize mixed planting vegetables in the garden, you should see specific examples. In the spring, at a suitable temperature, after the beds have been prepared, you should plant early vegetables (for example, radishes or lettuce) with a solid carpet.

When bunches of lettuce begin to grow and ripen radishes, it's time to thin them out and plant a follower in this place (for example, spinach). It is best to do it in a checkerboard pattern. Also next to the spinach, where there used to be radishes, you can plant bush beans.Please note that the beans must be planted in such a way that its bushes have free access to collect the pods. When the spinach with radish will be finally harvested, in their place can be planted cucumbers and leaf or cabbage lettuce. After harvesting the beans, it makes sense to plant kohlrabi or broccoli.

Mixed landings table

In order to always be able to check the correctness of the neighborhood of vegetables in the garden, there is a special table.

Advantages of the method

The main advantages of mixed plantings of vegetables are:

• rational use of garden area;
• the possibility of obtaining a harvest of fresh vegetables from early spring to late autumn;
• thanks to the combination and alternation of different crops with different nutritional requirements, the soil is saturated with all the necessary nutrients;
• There are always the main and accompanying plants in mixed plantings. Thanks to the accompanying plant for the main, a favorable environment for development is created, and the taste of the fruit becomes richer.

From the combined plantings of vegetable crops in the garden, a person who is passionate about the garden receives only benefit. The main thing - the right neighborhood of different crops to get a healthy and generous harvest.