Carrots Love Tomatoes

[Guest guest]

> So if everyone insists on talking about carrots and tomatoes, I must say

> that the same woman -- Louise Riotte -- who wrote the Planetary Planting

> book about planting vegetables according to the signs of the moon -- also

> wrote a bestseller called *Tomatoes love Carrots* or maybe it's *Carrots

> love Tomatoes.* Anyway, it's supposed to be a very good book about

> companion planting.

>

> Just wondering, has anyone on this conference read it?

 

No but I also heard that Tomatoes do really well if companion planted with

onion or garlic. Apparently it keeps fusarium at bay.

 

YS.

[Guest guest]

When I plant carrots, I drop a few radhish seeds in the row with them.

Carrots are slow to germinate, so the radhishes pop up quickly and mark the

row. I use the smaller round , fastest maturing types, and pick them as

little baby radhishes before the carrots get too big, about the time I do

the first thinning on the carrots.

 

Between the rows of carrots, I usually plant rows of lettuce. I eat

thinnings from that, and just keep pulling out the lettuce plants until the

carrots start to touch the lettuce when all the lettuce then comes out. I

space the carrot rows so they touch each other at maturity, but as they are

slow growing, the faster radhish and lettuce crops can be in and out of the

same space before the carrots need it.

 

One nice thing about the carrots/tomato thing would be, although I have

never done it, is that you could have a row of spinach or early carrots in

the tomato bed and have them out before the tomatoes need the space.

 

Hari-sauri: So she said that she knew how to make some juices from..., like

carrot juice but with some ginger and a little hing and other things mixed

which would give you very much strength, but at the same time not cause

mucus or anything.

Prabhupada: Let her make.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Room Conversation -- October 10, 1977, Vrndavana

[Guest guest]

When I plant carrots, I drop a few radhish seeds in the row with them.

Carrots are slow to germinate, so the radhishes pop up quickly and mark the

row. I use the smaller round , fastest maturing types, and pick them as

little baby radhishes before the carrots get too big, about the time I do

the first thinning on the carrots.

 

Between the rows of carrots, I usually plant rows of lettuce. I eat

thinnings from that, and just keep pulling out the lettuce plants until the

carrots start to touch the lettuce when all the lettuce then comes out. I

space the carrot rows so they touch each other at maturity, but as they are

slow growing, the faster radhish and lettuce crops can be in and out of the

same space before the carrots need it.

 

One nice thing about the carrots/tomato thing would be, although I have

never done it, is that you could have a row of spinach or early carrots in

the tomato bed and have them out before the tomatoes need the space.

 

Hari-sauri: So she said that she knew how to make some juices from..., like

carrot juice but with some ginger and a little hing and other things mixed

which would give you very much strength, but at the same time not cause

mucus or anything.

Prabhupada: Let her make.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Room Conversation -- October 10, 1977, Vrndavana

[Guest guest]

> When I plant carrots, I drop a few radhish seeds in the row with them.

> Carrots are slow to germinate, so the radhishes pop up quickly and mark

> the row. I use the smaller round , fastest maturing types, and pick them

> as little baby radhishes before the carrots get too big, about the time I

> do the first thinning on the carrots.

>

> Between the rows of carrots, I usually plant rows of lettuce. I eat

> thinnings from that, and just keep pulling out the lettuce plants until

> the carrots start to touch the lettuce when all the lettuce then comes

> out. I space the carrot rows so they touch each other at maturity, but

> as they are slow growing, the faster radhish and lettuce crops can be in

> and out of the same space before the carrots need it.

 

Great strategies. Extended production and season on the same area with

optimum cover to reduce evaporation and weed competition.

 

With respect, Gokula das

[Guest guest]

> When I plant carrots, I drop a few radhish seeds in the row with them.

> Carrots are slow to germinate, so the radhishes pop up quickly and mark

> the row. I use the smaller round , fastest maturing types, and pick them

> as little baby radhishes before the carrots get too big, about the time I

> do the first thinning on the carrots.

>

> Between the rows of carrots, I usually plant rows of lettuce. I eat

> thinnings from that, and just keep pulling out the lettuce plants until

> the carrots start to touch the lettuce when all the lettuce then comes

> out. I space the carrot rows so they touch each other at maturity, but

> as they are slow growing, the faster radhish and lettuce crops can be in

> and out of the same space before the carrots need it.

 

Great strategies. Extended production and season on the same area with

optimum cover to reduce evaporation and weed competition.

 

With respect, Gokula das