CHAPTER VII 

 INTERCROPPING 



IN the home garden where space is at a 

 premium, it seems necessary to use some 

 other crop with corn, and therefore utilize 

 the space to grow several crops on the 

 same land in the same year. It is possible 

 by two methods to grow a crop of corn 

 and some other crop on the same land, 

 either at the same time or in succession. 



COMPANION CROPPING 



With the first method, companion crop- 

 ping, spinach and corn may be grown 

 together. The spinach may be planted on 

 the corn land in rows 1 foot apart, the 

 seed of the spinach being planted very 

 early in the spring and the land being given 

 over to the growing of corn a little later. 

 At the time the corn seed is placed in the 

 ground, the spinach will be very nearly 

 edible. However, it is all removed by the 

 time the corn has grown to a height of 

 6 inches to a foot. 



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