Place the plant back in a bright window or greenhouse. Shelter the plant from direct sun for a day or two. As plants grow in breadth, move the pots apart so that there is good air circulation and little opportunity for disease to set in. ...
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Lettuce, radishes, and other quick-growing plants sown between hills of melons or winter squash will mature and be harvested long before these vines need more legroom. Leafy greens like spinach and Swiss chard will grow in the shadow of corn. Bush beans tolerate the dapple shade that corn ca...
Generally, crops in the same plant family benefit each other because they have similar environmental needs. Cucumbers and melons are both members of the Cucurbitaceae family and share the same vining habit. But when you pair these two together (especially without a trellis), it can quickly become...
Direct seeding is common in cereals such as upland rice, corn, sorghum, and millets; pulses such as soybean, peanut, and mungbean; large-seeded vegetables like squash and other cucurbits including melons, root vegetables such as carrot and radish, many leafy vegetables, okra or lady’s finge...
Friends: Corn loves veggies that fix nitrogen in the soil—like green beans. Cornstalks also make a great trellis for vining or trailing plants including beans, cucumbers, peas, pumpkins, and melons. Zucchini is a good sweet corn companion plant when planted among corn. ...
Be sure to clear plant debris from the field after harvest and hot-compost, and to rotate squash, cucumbers, and melons to another part of the garden the following year.For more information, see Cornell’s Vegetable MD Online for a series of articles on squash diseases, complete with photos...
Melons + Grows well with Corn.I wrote this one in because one of you may be looking for melons and not corn. Trying to make it easier for you! Peas. Radishes.Not my favorite food but the crunch is nice in a salad sometimes.
If planting corn consider the traditional “three sisters” arrangement of corn, beans, and squash or melons together. The corn creates a trellis and shade. The beans fix nitrogen in the soil and grow up the corn. The squash or melons take advantage of the shade and nitrogen while creating...
warm season starts like tomatoes, peppers, squash, melons, cucumbers, beans, basil, etc, be sure to check the night time forecast as well for the next 10-14 days out. Warm season crops do not like it to be below 50 degrees at night. Another thing that can cause shock in the plants...