Late Summer and Fall Intercropping of Cover Crops in Vegetable Crops, aka Undersowing

Reader Contribution by Pam Dawling
Published on July 9, 2015
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I wrote about Intercropping – Companion planting that really works! in April and Intercropping Vegetables in Late Spring and Early Summer, aka Relay Planting in June. Now we have reached summer, many of us will be thinking in terms of establishing winter cover crops, rather than planting lots more food crops.

The principles of intercropping can apply here too. Instead of tilling up the soil after the last food crop, in some cases you can sow your cover crop while the vegetable crop is still in the ground.

 

Advantages of undersowing cover crops:

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