DETERMINATION OF THE BEST PLANTING METHOD AND DENSITY FOR MIXED CULTURE OF CUCUMBER AND EGGPLANT IN ZABOL

An experiment was conducted at Zahak Research Station in Zabol in 1996-97 to determine the best method of planting and plant density for mixed culture of cucumber and eggplant. In this experiment, yields of two crops were compared in individual and mixed cultures. In both systems the distances between two plant were 25 and 50 cm, and in the mixed culture eggplants were planted in the opposite of cucumbers (zig zag form). The results showed that in individual culture, the yields of cucumber with 25 cm distance and eggplant with 50 cm distance between plants were 51.1 and 55.7 tha__-1, respectivety, but in mixed culture, where the eggplants were planted in zig zag form with 50 cm distances between cucumber plants, a told yield of 78.3 tha-1 was obtained. The relative yield and LER were determined to be 202 and 1.53, respectively.