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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: BarbaraGood on May 20, 2007, 10:26:44

Title: What can you plant between potatoes?
Post by: BarbaraGood on May 20, 2007, 10:26:44
I have realised, now they are maturing, that I REALLY overestimated the spacing between my earlies  ;D

Will carrots grow between? Or anything better?

Thanks
Title: Re: What can you plant between potatoes?
Post by: saddad on May 20, 2007, 10:41:26
Tricky one as you will need to earth up, but once you've done that a Quick crop like Radish, or transplanted lettuce will be up and out before the spuds shade them too much!
;D
Title: Re: What can you plant between potatoes?
Post by: laurieuk on May 20, 2007, 13:54:28
In all the gardening books during the war they used to say you could grow sprouts and other brassicas between potatoes as they grew up high enough but they generally got very drawn up and weak.
Title: Re: What can you plant between potatoes?
Post by: SueSteve on May 20, 2007, 17:46:31
I planted parsnips, fennel, leeks and allsorts next to my earlies, BIG MISTAKE!
The earlies have grown so big that everything else has now been shaded out and covered completely!
Title: Re: What can you plant between potatoes?
Post by: PlotSurfer on May 20, 2007, 18:02:43
I've just sown the first thing ever on my allotment - some spuds.

They're obviously 'lates' and I didn't even think about growing something in between them.

I might have a go at growing something fast germinating like radishes.