This cheek-by-jowl planting is called intercropping or interplanting, and it’s a great trick to use when you’re short of space. The strategy in this case took advantage of the difference in ...

If you are short on garden space, have trouble with weeds or want to try a new garden technique, try interplanting and staggering your seeds. Interplanting is growing two or more types of ...

remember to use plants with similar water and sun requirements. Try interplanting— it will make your garden more beautiful, diverse and productive.

BENEFITS: Interplanting vegetables with strawberries helps to hide the berries from hungry birds and other pests, who will have to work a bit harder to steal your crop. A variety of crops can also ...

When we think about vegetable gardens, we don’t usually think about interplanting flowers and herbs with our vegetables. In recent years, the internet has exploded with information and ...

Tangible benefits, however, come from intercropping (also known as relay planting, interplanting or undersowing), which is when one crop (or cover crop) is sown or transplanted in the spaces ...

For more than a decade, University of Idaho Extension Educator Steven Hines sought an answer for Magic Valley farmers in need of a short-season crop to plant after harvesting corn silage for ...