bush bean and beet plants than corn plants. Be sure to
plant the corn and beet seedlings 2 weeks before the
beans, or the beans will retard the others’ growth.
An easier, and probably just as e5ective, method of
companion planting in space is to divide your planting
bed into separate sections (or beds within a bed) for
each vegetable. In this method, a grouping of corn plants
would be next to a group of bush beans and a group of
beets. In reality, this is a kind of companion planting
over time, since there are heavy feeder, heavy giver, and
light feeder sections within a bed. Roots extend 1 to 4
feet around each plant, so it is also companion planting
in space. We recommend you use this approach.
Additional spacing patterns no doubt exist and will be
developed for companion planting in space.
2-Crop Companion Planting