Intercropping is one of the most interesting modern trends in gardening – it is the cultivation of many kinds of plants on one big expanse, influencing vermin or upgrading some plant species by their proximity.

The most important ways of mixing plants are:

• Grouping slow-growing plants with the fast-growing ones

• Putting together plants with shallow roots with others that extract from deeper layers of soil

• Sharing of the space by plants of different heights

• Natural pest control achieved by carefully selecting neighbouring plants

• Fertilizing and strengthening the properties of one kind of plants by well planned neighbouring ones.

One of the biggest perks of intercropping is space-saving. It is especially convenient in small gardens, where it enables much better crops and adds some extra space for even more plants. It is almost as if the planting space was multiplied by two.

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