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Tomatoes & Lettuce

✓ Excellent Companions

✓ Why Tomatoes and Lettuce Work Well Together

✓Lettuce uses space under tomato canopy efficiently
✓Tomato provides shade preventing lettuce bolting
✓Extended lettuce harvest in warm weather

🔬 How It Works (Science)

  • 1.Vertical space optimization
  • 2.Microclimate modification (shade, humidity)
  • 3.Living mulch effect from lettuce

📋 Planting Tips

1Plant heat-tolerant lettuce varieties
2Start lettuce when tomatoes are established
3Succession plant lettuce every 2 weeks

📏 Recommended Spacing

Lettuce 8-12" from tomato stem, under canopy

📚 Sources & Research

  • •Succession planting research
  • •Intensive gardening methods

Other Tomatoes Companions

Basil✓ GoodCarrots✓ GoodMarigolds✓ GoodParsley✓ Good

Other Lettuce Companions

Broccoli✓ GoodRadishes✓ Good

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