verb
- to plant (crops or plants) between or among other plants
Usage: agriculture; gardening
Examples
- Farmers often interplant corn with beans to maximize land use.
- She decided to interplant lettuce between the tomato rows.
- The gardener will interplant herbs among the vegetable crops.
- They interplant nitrogen-fixing legumes with other crops.
- You can interplant radishes with slower-growing vegetables.
- The technique allows farmers to interplant two compatible species.