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Radishes & Lettuce

✓ Excellent Companions

✓ Why Radishes and Lettuce Work Well Together

✓Radishes break up soil for lettuce
✓Quick radish harvest frees space for lettuce expansion
✓Both prefer cool conditions

🔬 How It Works (Science)

  • 1.Soil aeration
  • 2.Trap cropping (radishes attract flea beetles away)
  • 3.Compatible growing conditions

📋 Planting Tips

1Interplant radishes throughout lettuce bed
2Radish leaves provide some shade for young lettuce
3Harvest radishes progressively

📏 Recommended Spacing

Radishes scattered 4-6" apart among lettuce

📚 Sources & Research

  • •Cool season crop research
  • •Trap cropping studies

Other Radishes Companions

Spinach✓ GoodCucumbers✓ Good

Other Lettuce Companions

Tomatoes✓ GoodBroccoli✓ Good

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