Thank you for not being click bait! A lot of my favorite ag people now only click bait. Thanks! We’re still learning from you, unlike other’s channels!
Companion planting/interplanting...with tomatoes in my 8 x 4 beds: rows of lettuce in between the tomatoes so in summer they are shaded. On each side (length) of the garden bed: carrots. I plant Parsley & marigolds in each corner & in the middle/side of the garden bed. I've never planted using basil but I'm planning to this year. I try & interplant with plants that do well together & flowers to attract bees & beneficial insects....it's definitely a win-win. Wishing you success in the garden! Enjoy your videos.
I live in a condo in Southern California. I have planters around my backyard. I use the Square Foot Gardening method to give me any kind of yield. A trellis was made from wire mesh used for concrete and so are the tomato cages. I try to grow many things vertically, my yellow squash was great last year. Interplanting allows me to have one crop come along after another. Basil and tomatoes are a natural. The trellis allows for beans, cucumbers, and tomatoes to share vertical space. Think vertical as well as horizontal is my advice.
🙋first year interplanting as well. I have been gardening for years. Even though I have lots of land, I have found that while I am still working full-time keeping it my garden small is more manageable. The down side not as much yield so I started interplanting this year. I do have a full year all season gardens. Which I love!!! Much luck to you sir with the interplanting.
I have been getting my feet wet in this area this year as well. I actually have onions and lettuce together now. I bought a great book on the subject called "Carrots love tomatoes" by Louise Riotte. Great book if you want to get it.
Great information as always. Even as a home gardener I find your videos interesting and well worth watching. One doesn't have to be a market gardener or farmer to benefit from what you share. If anyone is interested, Charles Dowding is the king of interplanting/succession planting and gets amazing harvests. He is very low-key and relaxing to watch and gives a lot of really good practical information. Silly observation: why do your straw hats shred on the left side first? (that may be the first sign of paying *too* much attention to your videos)
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. We will plant our spinach and lettuce amongst our onions this afternoon. Nice idea for us because we are running out of space in our garden because we are putting in a variety of perennial berry and rhubarb plants along with the asparagus beds.
I'm experimenting with interplanting a lot this year, mostly because I've already run out of space, haha. So far it's working great. I've got lettuce and spinach growing between garlic. Lettuce and peas in the same bed. Strawberries and parsley. I'm about to start squeezing onions in all over the place because I have no other choice. Last year I did tomatoes and basil together and they did great, will do the same this year.
I did corn and beans. Im stil learning and do little videos that nobody really watches but im proud of what im doing so I record to share. Also if i need advice people can help. Its a small learning garden and not enough for my size family but big enough to where I can learn and take notes. Hopefully when I move to my own land/home i can make a bigger garden. I like the idea of interplanting. I wanted to know what i could do it with since i did it with my corn and beans.
I will try this this year. Am taking it easy and introducing a new idea a year so I can keep a focus on quality and yield without those suffering but leaving room for experiments like this to see how things coukd be improved. Thanks as always.
Dr Christine Jones just did another webinar on Green Cover Seed channel, and she has been talking about the Jena experiments in Germany with poly cultures and she mentioned that the key is having the plants in a poly culture (which is basically what companion or interplanting is) from different families. So if you have four plants, try to make them from a different family not just four different species. They (greencoverseed) added a bunch of links in the comments from yesterdays upload titled ( Dr. Christine Jones - "The Nitrogen Solution" ) The links are about the Jena experiment and other great stuff. I'll let you folks search yourself as this is Josh's channel. Great stuff mister, keep it coming.
We have beds on a slope with wooden walls on the downhill side, and I plant green onions and leeks on the uphill side of the walls. Uses about 4” of the bed, very efficient use of space. Soil is deepest there, gets well watered. They get good sun and don’t shade out anything.
Depending on the cuisine, some use more green onions than others. How much can you really grow to make that profitable? I guess it doesn't matter. Whatever you're able to yield is better than what the big stores have and allows the Chefs to charge more for the food. Love the channel. I grow onions, garlic, and okra together in one bed, broccoli and okra in another, and peppers and okra in another. Corn, Pole Beans, and squash are called the three sisters by Native Americans. Oh, I am a fan of Okra and grow three different varieties.
I’m on my 3rd year interplanting marigolds and tomatoes. No bugs, no deer, no powdery mildew. As a result the deer eat my unprotected okra and half the new growth on my fruit trees. Deer gotta eat. 🤷♂️
I would appreciate a link for the drip irrigation also. I use rain barrels and a sprinkler can. Wearing me out! Ha! Thanks Josh. I always enjoy your posts.
Is there something I could multicrop with potatoes now in Z 6A? I am just starting with building the beds and don't have a caterpillar greenhouse, but I could use row covers if I need to.
How do you deal with deer, rabbits, raccoons, squirrels, and wood chucks? My farm is plagued with these pests. The commodity farms around me just take the losses with the mindset that is in their cost of production. With my small acres, I cant afford this.
What problems have you had with citrus and garlic? I planted a ring of garlic around my ailing meyer lemon this year, and have had amazing results - the few leaves left on my small tree were yellow and I had few lemons. But now it's literally covered with blossoms and new leaf growth. I don't know if the garlic has been instrumental, but I didn't do anything else differently.
@@gaylekerr9826 The orange tree was in a raised wall and surrounded by garlic. It produced nothing for 2 years. The garlic was removed and the tree produced ever since.
Makes so much sense. Charles Dowding would approve, no doubt. The farm is rockin’!
As interplants for Your peppers I can suggest basil, celery stalk and marygold. Works for me very fine.
Thank you for not being click bait! A lot of my favorite ag people now only click bait. Thanks! We’re still learning from you, unlike other’s channels!
You're welcome. Glad you like the channel. Thanks for watching!
Companion planting/interplanting...with tomatoes in my 8 x 4 beds: rows of lettuce in between the tomatoes so in summer they are shaded. On each side (length) of the garden bed: carrots. I plant Parsley & marigolds in each corner & in the middle/side of the garden bed. I've never planted using basil but I'm planning to this year. I try & interplant with plants that do well together & flowers to attract bees & beneficial insects....it's definitely a win-win. Wishing you success in the garden! Enjoy your videos.
How did the basil work out? Ive heard that basil will shade out other plants too harshly
I live in a condo in Southern California. I have planters around my backyard. I use the Square Foot Gardening method to give me any kind of yield. A trellis was made from wire mesh used for concrete and so are the tomato cages. I try to grow many things vertically, my yellow squash was great last year. Interplanting allows me to have one crop come along after another. Basil and tomatoes are a natural. The trellis allows for beans, cucumbers, and tomatoes to share vertical space. Think vertical as well as horizontal is my advice.
"Because that's how he rolls"......love it
🙋first year interplanting as well. I have been gardening for years. Even though I have lots of land, I have found that while I am still working full-time keeping it my garden small is more manageable. The down side not as much yield so I started interplanting this year. I do have a full year all season gardens. Which I love!!! Much luck to you sir with the interplanting.
I have been getting my feet wet in this area this year as well. I actually have onions and lettuce together now. I bought a great book on the subject called "Carrots love tomatoes" by Louise Riotte. Great book if you want to get it.
Great information as always. Even as a home gardener I find your videos interesting and well worth watching. One doesn't have to be a market gardener or farmer to benefit from what you share. If anyone is interested, Charles Dowding is the king of interplanting/succession planting and gets amazing harvests. He is very low-key and relaxing to watch and gives a lot of really good practical information.
Silly observation: why do your straw hats shred on the left side first? (that may be the first sign of paying *too* much attention to your videos)
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. We will plant our spinach and lettuce amongst our onions this afternoon. Nice idea for us because we are running out of space in our garden because we are putting in a variety of perennial berry and rhubarb plants along with the asparagus beds.
Just found you thru Epic Gardening Really enjoying and learning so much. Thank you so much
I'm experimenting with interplanting a lot this year, mostly because I've already run out of space, haha. So far it's working great. I've got lettuce and spinach growing between garlic. Lettuce and peas in the same bed. Strawberries and parsley. I'm about to start squeezing onions in all over the place because I have no other choice. Last year I did tomatoes and basil together and they did great, will do the same this year.
That interplanted bed looks so great! Keep up the amazing work!
There's always something new I learn with each of your videos. Thanks so much!
I did corn and beans. Im stil learning and do little videos that nobody really watches but im proud of what im doing so I record to share. Also if i need advice people can help. Its a small learning garden and not enough for my size family but big enough to where I can learn and take notes. Hopefully when I move to my own land/home i can make a bigger garden. I like the idea of interplanting. I wanted to know what i could do it with since i did it with my corn and beans.
Great job Josh. Short and sweet with tons of info.................and we dig the hat bro!!!
Inter planting for the big win!!
Great video as always. As a tip research "three sisters planting" - interesting interplanting permaculture technique
I will try this this year. Am taking it easy and introducing a new idea a year so I can keep a focus on quality and yield without those suffering but leaving room for experiments like this to see how things coukd be improved. Thanks as always.
We often don't know what to do with the end of our beds so I like to put cantaloupe and let the leaves do some shade
Dr Christine Jones just did another webinar on Green Cover Seed channel, and she has been talking about the Jena experiments in Germany with poly cultures and she mentioned that the key is having the plants in a poly culture (which is basically what companion or interplanting is) from different families. So if you have four plants, try to make them from a different family not just four different species. They (greencoverseed) added a bunch of links in the comments from yesterdays upload titled ( Dr. Christine Jones - "The Nitrogen Solution" ) The links are about the Jena experiment and other great stuff.
I'll let you folks search yourself as this is Josh's channel. Great stuff mister, keep it coming.
Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
I like this idea. We might apply this to our beds. Thank you for sharing.
I usually do some interesting bc I rin out of room. This year I am actually planning it in.
We have beds on a slope with wooden walls on the downhill side, and I plant green onions and leeks on the uphill side of the walls. Uses about 4” of the bed, very efficient use of space. Soil is deepest there, gets well watered. They get good sun and don’t shade out anything.
I love interplanting, great video and content as usual. Keep it up Josh!
Your the inspiration for my first greenhouse I've built!
Awesome Daniel!
Depending on the cuisine, some use more green onions than others. How much can you really grow to make that profitable? I guess it doesn't matter. Whatever you're able to yield is better than what the big stores have and allows the Chefs to charge more for the food. Love the channel. I grow onions, garlic, and okra together in one bed, broccoli and okra in another, and peppers and okra in another. Corn, Pole Beans, and squash are called the three sisters by Native Americans. Oh, I am a fan of Okra and grow three different varieties.
I’m on my 3rd year interplanting marigolds and tomatoes. No bugs, no deer, no powdery mildew. As a result the deer eat my unprotected okra and half the new growth on my fruit trees. Deer gotta eat. 🤷♂️
Fun video! I didn't do much intercropping except some radishes with my tomatoes.
I'm now just watching for the ratio...hole to straw ratio on your hat.
I am just trying to find out what he fertilizes in beard with.
Ah ah ah ah 😂
Thanks Josh! Any experience of interplanting nitrogen fixers with heavy feeders like tomatoes?
Looking for a clone of Josh to run our beautiful acreage in Yanceyville,NC. Needs to come with a clone of Gene as well! Apply within.😎
Lol...same here...we are no way farmers, just a garden hobbyist but just bought a good amount of land.
Does 2 drip lines per bed usually suffice?
Thanks for the great video! Do you add some fertilization on a bed flip when you interplant? 150% yield = 150% fertilization?
Thanks for sharing. Will try it this year
Josh, does your drip have 12” emitters or closer on the cucumber/lettuce bed?
Nice, I assume you are trellising the cucs. TY
If you hit a home run with achieve the best crop mix and the weather cooperates, what do you think your total sales volume will be for 2021?
Josh, what spacing are you using for your peppers? Could you also have planter two rows of peppers on the same bed at about 18 inches apart?
Can you provide a link for where you get the drip irrigation?
I would appreciate a link for the drip irrigation also. I use rain barrels and a sprinkler can. Wearing me out! Ha! Thanks Josh. I always enjoy your posts.
Is there something I could multicrop with potatoes now in Z 6A? I am just starting with building the beds and don't have a caterpillar greenhouse, but I could use row covers if I need to.
Good video the Indians did that long time ago with the three sisters corn beans and squash
those pepper varieties are not F1 right?
Do you have a video on the caterpillar high tunnel that you have built?
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Will Neversink Tools come up with a gridder for interplanting???
Looks good!
Interplanting promotes gene expressions!
New hat time !!!
Quality content, as usual, but may I suggest a new hat, Josh? 😆
i have been inter planting for years i have a limited amount of space
How do you deal with deer, rabbits, raccoons, squirrels, and wood chucks?
My farm is plagued with these pests. The commodity farms around me just take the losses with the mindset that is in their cost of production. With my small acres, I cant afford this.
The only problem we have out of that group is squirrels. They ate all of my tomatoes so I stopped growing tomatoes.
I like I like I liked NICE!!!❤
Are you going to trellis the cucumbers?
Cabbage and cucumbers are an awesome combination in a hoophouse.
♥️♥️♥️interplanting!
So far a no-no...is garlic with citrus and garlic with broccoli. Garlic stunts both.
What problems have you had with citrus and garlic? I planted a ring of garlic around my ailing meyer lemon this year, and have had amazing results - the few leaves left on my small tree were yellow and I had few lemons. But now it's literally covered with blossoms and new leaf growth. I don't know if the garlic has been instrumental, but I didn't do anything else differently.
@@gaylekerr9826 The orange tree was in a raised wall and surrounded by garlic. It produced nothing for 2 years. The garlic was removed and the tree produced ever since.
@@shadytreez Well then, who knows? At least we both have improved citrus trees! Thanks for the reply, and good gardening!
@@gaylekerr9826 Right? And the last thing I wanted to add...there was nothing else planted with the orange. Good gardening to u 2. ☺
Onion flavored lettuce. LOL, just kidding.
Come on Buddy, time for a new hat. Maybe one that is rabbit proof.
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