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Detailed explanation-1: -What is Interplanting? This type of gardening takes some planning, but vegetable intercropping can also reduce disease and pests when done in proper combinations. The practice involves pairing taller plants with shorter ones growing under them. It also includes combinations of companion plants, which help repel pests.

Detailed explanation-2: -The system of intercropping, or companion cropping, involves the growing of two or more kinds of vegetables on the same land in the same growing season.

Detailed explanation-3: -Intercropping includes the growing of two or more cash crops together. It also includes the growing of a cash crop with a cover crop or other non-cash crop that provides benefits to the primary crop or to the overall farm system. Cover crops can also be intercropped with one another.

Detailed explanation-4: -Examples of intercropping strategies are planting a deep-rooted crop with a shallow-rooted crop, or planting a tall crop with a shorter crop that requires partial shade.