5 Underplanting Examples to Grow Vegetables Out of Season & Save Space
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2024
- In this video, I give you examples of how to grow two or more plants in the same garden space by underplanting or intercropping to help protect from the elements such as the harsh sun or to save space and grow more food in a smaller area.
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Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre property/homestead in SE Queensland Australia about 45kms north of Brisbane - the climate is subtropical (similar to Florida). I started Self Sufficient Me in 2011 as a blog website project where I document and write about backyard food growing, self-sufficiency, and urban farming in general. I love sharing my foodie and DIY adventures online so come along with me and let's get into it! Cheers, Mark :)
you should make a video about how you guys preserve your produce, that would be something that I would be very interested in and I imagine that many people would enjoy that
Thanks for the suggestion! Also, check out my recipe and preserving playlist ua-cam.com/video/XxSowApiP1E/v-deo.html All the best :)
I agree! It would help me to get my crop to last longer. Perhaps by canning jars or the investment on a freeze dryer. M
I was about to ask, how can one possibly eat so much corn before it spoils? Or all they all planted in sequence such that they ripen at a different time?
I agree please make a video on that
@@EctoMorpheus also, he got help from the chickens
I get tickled every time Mark mentions his raised garden beds, he loves them so much. cheers love!
right?! he should just marry them at this point ;)
The first time I saw "underplanting" was 10 or 15 years ago when I visited Tunesia. In an oasis I saw orange trees and grape vines planted under the tall palm trees. Under the orange and fruit trees were pepper and tomato plants. It was really impressive how they used the palm trees to protect against the sun and grow so many other things!
Cant believe i have a beautiful garden after watching and learning from you.I now have basil. chillies. radish. mint. oregano. cherry tomatoes.parsley.lemongrass... and im gonna add CORNS and more now😁Thank you champ👍
usher freedom where did you get the radish seeds?
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@@mpshilpa I've found radish seeds at local farmers markets. May be worth a look!
Native Americans taught what is known as the three sisters method of cropping, similarly to what you're doing here they would plant corn with beans and squash. The corn would provide trellis for the beans to climb. The beans would provide nitrogen and the squash ground cover. This undercropping/companion planting method works really well in my area of Arizona (USA). We have intense, arid heat throughout the summers. I've found that sunflowers, corn and even artichoke can provide excellent shade for various crops like lettuce and carrots. I've even had an over abundance of cilantro(coriander) stalks that we're going to seed act as excellent shade bearing plants for lettuce and cabbage to grow in the understory. Cheers great video! How's the chipper working out for you?
dulce0403 ...I tried but my beans grew twice as high as the corn and I ended up with training sticks and a great tangle. Beans were great, corn not so much.
@Old chunk of coal. "Myth" as in wideley held but false belief or myth as in traditional story? Because this is actually a real part of American agriculture.
thanks @dulce0403 for tell him about three sisters growing method. So now I do not have to.
@@gayedawn1 that’s why you go for a variety of corn that grows over 6 feet tall, or use bush beans that don’t climb as much.
Isn’t that just amazing? All the useful tips from people commenting is so very helpful.
I just want to thank you for your information on everything you have changed my life, I was useless when it came to seedling and starting plants until last month lets say I've been binge watching info and now have tomatoes, bok choi, lettuce, basil and even some flowers... Thanks Mark 👍
Edit: forgot about my carrots too 😂
Cool! There are so many varieties of veg to try so get into it! Cheers :)
I will i will just keep up the quality content
congratulations that is awesome
Mark is one of those most informative and genuine humans on UA-cam. I hope to be as awesome as this guy is one day.
And more props to corn for its shade, I’ve got mushrooms growing underneath that’ve survived 3 heatwaves.
I know this is an old comment, but thats a great idea! Thanks :)
Thank you SO MUCH! I'm doing a NO BUY, NO SPEND year and so have started growing our own food. Learning sooooo much from your channel. Much gratitude from Northern ,NSW 😎
Eve & Artie with respect, you won’t be able to do this unless you’re eating the dirt. Even full scale farmers need the supermarkets
G'day Eve and Artie, thank you and all the best with your food garden! Cheers :)
@@dylanzrim1011 oh yes, we have some 'rules' with the no buy no spend. We can spend on necessities. Just no extra and/luxury purchases etc. Plus, the area we live in, we can do produce swaps. Thank you
@@Selfsufficientme thank you so much!!! It's been fun starting from scratch
I'm doing a no buy for many things and a low buy for other things. Growing more and more I n the raised beds.
Live in New England, trying to control emotions of Jealousy. I can't watch anymore. Looks seriously good. I just miss my garden.
I don't have a garden and maybe never will, but man I love watching this channel, so relaxing.
I absolutely love your channel. My husband and I are gonna start some of these this spring. He is so excited to start changing our lifestyles to a self sufficient one. The name of your channel is spot on!
All the best to both of you! Get into it and grow a ton! Thanks 🙂👍
Also I'm in Canberra and I like checking out the difference in the growing seasons between you and I. We live in a big ol country Mark, its easily demonstrated in our growing conditions.
Not that I don’t care about what’s happening there but it’s good to see you are still going because you really know your stuff and I’m sure people have learned so much from you Mark.
Marks growing principals can still be applied wherever you are. Yes, if you live in a place with freezing winters, you cannot grow veges outside and have yo start them inside or in a greenhouse, but during your growing season surely they will still work.
Great information! You have been the go to garden guy for growing tons of food in a small space! Love your channel...and your accent! Hope you are well and safe Down Under!
Thank you! Yes all good here cheers :)
Love doing this after my tomatoes have taken off!
G'day Kevin! Yes true mate! Great space saver for any larger food crop. Cheers :)
Three of my problems in SE Texas: (1) People have discouraged me from growing corn because of its low yield per plant, (2) those crazy manuals recommend spacing them 12 to 18 inches apart, and (3) the SE Texas sun can be brutal on a garden where I have very little shade. It sounds like corn is exactly what I need and lots of it! Thank you. I'm going to try it this year!
I’m in southern Louisiana and I say grow as much corn as you have the space for!! 6” apart as long as you have fertile soil (so 4 per square foot) and plant the seeds now! Btw. Lots of sun is good, it’s the wind that will wreck corn so plant the seeds about 3” deep! You won’t regret it
Love your videos, Mark.
Last year I let volunteer ground cherry grow under my corn, carrots under my tomatoes, amaranth greens under my okra, and purslane under my peppers. I ended up with double the produce, and the smaller plants also acted as green mulch to protect the soil.
Hey Mark! I use sun flowers for my beans to climb up also.
My raised beds are coming along in my small backyard garden. You have taught me so much. You are da man.
So, the lesson here is to plant corn all over the place and see what volunteers in its shade.
I can't help but grin at your pronunciations. We say COLLards like shirt collar with a 'd; you say co-LARDs. We say or-EGG-a-no; you say or-eh--GONE-oh. We say peppers; you say capsicums. You Aussie's are so much fun!
You've surpassed half a million subs, Mark. No stopping you now. I"m so proud of you! ~ Lisa
I love watching your videos. I first saw you when I was searching for how to grow Avacado from seed back in November. Now my small balcony here in Beijing has turned into a garden. I just wanted to say thank you for all the helpful tips. Stay safe!
Just discovered your channel and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I'll be binge watching for days. Also, condolences to all our human and animal brothers and sisters for what they are enduring in the fires.
Glad you and the wife continue to be safe from these wildfires,garden on mate
This is a real game changer. Can’t believe I didn’t think about something so simple yet so beneficial. Thanks Mark!
I'm growing tomatoes under a lemon tree and thanks to your video I'm going to plant corn around my silverbeets to help protect them from the sun and I'm in WA Australia 😄
That'll work good I reckon! Cheers :)
i live close to you in a place called gympie and i get this all the time other veg growing under the bigger stuff. But thats probably the possum spreading the seeds around.
Thanks for the idea to use corn as a windbreak and a living trellis! I haven’t grown corn yet so am keen to try it out in my garden. Cheers from Phillip Island
Ok great - G'day Belinda! :)
Hi Mark.
When corn is planted and then beans and squash, that's known as "the three sisters by the native Americans". The beans grow up the corn stalks and provides shade for the squash also keeps the weeds down.
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My grandfather used to grow beans and corn together. We also combine corn with zucchini, and various herbs between other plans, to protect them. Their intense flavor is like a repellent for some bugs. It is always nice to see your clips. Thank you for your inspiration and ideas!
It's always worth keeping seed from stuff that's grown out of season, as I find it's then almost hardier to our conditions in the next run. Keep planting them out, keep succession planting, eventually you end up with your own strain that really pushes the boundaries of the normal season for that plant.
Mark, can you tell me how often you water your garden through summer?
First of all thank you for sharing all this knowledge with us. Secondly, if you haven't already, I think it would be cool if you made a video on the things you should do on a regular basis in your garden to keep your plants and soil healthy.
As someone who is very new to all this, keeping a list of all the things that should be done in the day/week/month would be very helpful.
Maybe you already have a video on this and haven't found it. You could also link some of your other videos in the description for more information on each topic.
Hi Mark, great examples of under planting. Some of my best plants ever, are self sown so i am particularly careful to pull out only the weeds and let the freebies have a chance. I threw out the gardening manual years ago because I don’t think Mother Nature ever read it. :) Nice 👍 video.
Yes I just found some garlic that was growing under my tomato bushes. I love my raised beds and vegetables. I can't wait for Spring! Love your videos, stay safe and fire free.
You just doubled my summer production! Many thanks!!!!
I appreciate how you include different climate types or weather conditions in your videos. I'm in the tropics and I appreciate the extra information that applies to me.
I have a small market garden and I run with 30 inch wide beds. This past summer I planted 2 rows of beans with a few inches space on the outside edges of bed. In between these 2 rows of bush beans I planted 2 rows of Radishes. All plants grew together quick enough to keep weeds down. The radishes finished about 3 weeks in when beans were about the same size as the radish tops. Radishes were pulled and the beans filled in the missing space quickly. This gave me 2 crops from one bed, as well as helped keep ground covered so to slow water evaporation as well as shade out weed seedlings. This worked out so well that it will be a standard practice for my bush bean beds this coming year. I also find green or spring onions make a good "under plant" on the outside edges of slow to mature plants. I did them on the outside edges of brassicas this last year and that also worked well and gave me 2 crops in one bed at the same time. Be creative, just do a quick google search to make sure one will not draw pest to the other, or the few combinations where one plant will cause the other to struggle. A quick google search will give a list of good plants to "companion or inter plant" with, and those to avoid. ANYONE in the U.S., I just picked up the 2020 farmers almanac yesterday and it has a chart of good companion plants in it.
Hi, I've stumbled upon this Phrase over time by the expert cooks of the world: The difference between an ordinary cook and a great cook is a well stocked Pantry. Well I must be a great cook I have 4 pantry's the largest is a 10 ft. by 10 ft. by 10 ft. room with shelves all around the walls, and reaching to the ceiling. That is full of vegetables, fruits, soups and the like. a second pantry has dried vegetables in half gallon jugs, also canned chicken, pork etc. It is so nice to have my own groceries in my house instead of at the store. Jessie USA
WOW! I haven't been paying attention lately - 513K subscribers! Well done, Mark! Wish I could give you 2 thumbs up on your videos.
I'm glad you mentioned the charts being wrong. I live in Texas and some charts say to plant tomatoes in May lol. It would be too hot to ever get a fruit!
Aw yeah! I was just going on a Self Sufficient Me binge and this video came at the perfect time! Thanks for the great content Mark
Thank you Joshua! :)
Thank you for sharing your garden wisdom...enjoy watching you
Thanks Mark! I have a small garden space so this is very helpful, and yes, healthily is indeed a word. Your garden is always a treat to see as are you. Your information is really useful and I appreciate your sharing. Blessings to you and your family.😊😂👵🐕🌲🎶from WA state grandma💞
Thank you Melody and blessings to you also! :)
My parents are masters but I am learning now I remember We used to grow edamame beans & pumpkin under corn .. they grow very well & sweet potato as well
I'm in Western Sydney, not as hot as you. But my front garden bed in full sun I struggled to keep things alive or thriving in the middle of summer. After watching this video and another by Sustainable Holly in Perth, I tried popping a few sunflowers and purple amaranth in that bed last summer. What a difference the dappled shade from those plants made to the rest of the bed. Plants underneath thrived! I will be doing it again this coming summer.
Beautiful man and his beautiful garden. Thank you for sharing.
You're one of my new favorites on UA-cam! 😊 Your positive personality is infectious and I love that.
We live in cold Michigan where tomatoes do good in the summer, which shades our lettuce that we plant between rows. We almost always under plant everything on Friendly Food Forest channel. Great video with an even better idea.
I'll be trying this in a couple weeks or so here in California. Our summers are brutally hot, and my planter is backed up with a brick wall, so I may end up using shade cloth between June and September anyway. You've been a great inspiration to me as I'm getting started gardening again for the first time in a couple of decades. Thank you!
You can use castor beans for quick, dense, hot season shade. Leaves make great fertilizer and compost.
Also in my case, I let the stressed out "wrong time" plant grow, and although they usually produce just a few seeds, *those seeds* really produce happier plants, drought tolerance is something I specifically breed with my seed saving, maybe you could use this to get summer french beans for example! Thanks for sharing this
If you double space rows of carrots, then put transplanted tomatoes in between, they grow beautifully together. We did a side by side comparison once with Roma tomatoes, only one bed with carrots too. The tomatoes with the carrots produced almost double the crop.
We use the small tomato cages on our pepper and chilies. The medium sized cages work for eggplants. We finally found cages large enough for some of the smaller tomato plants.
Microclimates are lovely. We grow a wonderful key lime tree right up next to the house by a window. It thrives where we shouldn’t be able to grow them. We also have an avocado under a redwood.
With our work in Malawi working with subsistence farmers in remote areas they always plant beans at the same time as maize not only add the beans but the beans help the soil which in turn helps the maize, pumpkins are also planted to help with ground cover. Great video, keep up the great work
Hi Mark! Zone 9 Jacksonville FL here. It's winter, but not really. It's 83 degrees F today. Yep. You read that right. So, like your garden, some opposite season crops are sneaking up, but the best example of underplanting is my black seeded Simpson lettuce that I had coming up under okra understory.
Same lettuce under sugar snap peas and an even smaller underplanting of multi-colored heirloom carrots in between and under the peas.
4:03 "healthily" is definitely the right word to use! It's a pet peeve of mine when people say they are "eating healthy" (which means "I am eating a healthy", whatever one of those is) instead of "eating healthily" (which means eating things that are healthy).
Thanks for clearing that up mate! Cheers :)
I love that you share the results of your experiments, and that you experiment at all. Other youtubers would just be like "fancy music! So happy sounding! I grew X from Y! Look how easy! 1, 2, 3, boom!"
Never saw anyone grow corn in raised tubs, native American tradition is '3 sisters' to grow corn, beans, and squash together. Our summers are hot in southern Idaho and I wouldn't be able to use metal tubs or trellises as they would just burn anything that touches them. Part of it is the days are so long in summer at 45th parallel it's 15 or 16 hours and full sun on your crop is only 6 hours! Happy gardening, love your vids!
Thank you. This is a good reminder for my hot summers in Northern California
Heavy duty gardening and Gardener sure are at point here as shade varieties do well without so much direct light which with higher temps and more exposure may make them flower and go to seed quicker , multi-year dynamics or using existing condition to augment or compliment other plants is Genius!
Great video. I think the biggest takeaway is that I need to grow corn! 😂
Is that like where cardamom seeds come from that plant? What people referred to that garlic being is “green garlic”. Look up Chef John food wishes YT. He makes a green garlic soup if you love garlic you’re gonna love that soup.
I always kept a photo record chart on my Pinterest boards
I have some carrots growing under some snow peas. Its winter here so it's mostly just for maximizing space usage. We have a very small yard.
I love the way he says oregano and collards.
Shhhh. That must just be how they are pronounced with an Aussie accent. 😉
Normal for Aussies, dont stress we think the same when you guys pronounce it.
Haha, how else would he say it?
@@Vegansonya Here we say or-REG-an-o (his way sounds much more exotic from here ... especially when I have to kill off oregano every year, as it's so weedy here!)
Pretty sure she wasn't stressing.. It's just really cute.
It's interesting how an accent different from our own can invoke different feelings.. 💚
Brilliant. I've always thought of the potential of underplanting to maximize space and even started doing this. Will underplanting more often! Always loved your videos- thanks for this.
Funny... my ancestors used the three sisters (corn, beans & squash). Turns out the beans are nitrogen fixing (meaning they pull nitrogen from the air & actually put it into the earth). The corn is a nitrogen hog, but provides the pole for the bean stalk. The squash provides ground cover that robs the weeds of the sunlight. Three sisters.... a Native American farming technique.
I know, I know.... not exactly the same. But it kept running through my mind as you went from collards to chives to carrots.....
Cheers brother...
I've been watching your channel for months now and have just bought my first two raised beds! I'm on heavy clay too but the weather is very different throughout the year here in the UK compared to yours. Thanks for all the info and the wonderful videos. Stay safe.
All the best with your raised beds. They should work well in your climate. Thank you :)
You are fabulous !....I'm in The Bahamas...2 seasons..1) HOT 2) HURRICANE...my island still hasn't recovered from Cat 5 'Dorian' in 2019...many swept out to sea...in the 100's....yours was the first youtube content i got...must have been a had to happen type thing....i started growing stuff...most was labour in vain, had a few meals...the only thing that never fail to produce year round are sweet potatoes. mangoes.....so sweet, but seasonal ( blossom in Jan, eat your guts out by July), tried everything else literally under the sun..either the bugs or weather gets them. My island has zero natural soil...it's limestone with a carpet of grass...i pick axed a corn patch, and added compost, sand and seaweed from the beach, and it's hard to keep the lawn grass at bay, but i now have a 10'x10' corn patch trying to grow well, a couple are 4-5' and showing silks...BUT, these F43k78g beetles are getting deep into the stalks...help me out here please....what to do about these beetles..sweet potato, in containers did so well, and are in very close proximity to corn patch...pests haven't bothered sweet pots...at least not yet
This is good advice. I just started a garden plot at the local park. Maybe I can do it there.:)
If we had something like that in my suburb of Perth, it'd be trashed and pulled out/run over by trail bikes within a day...
@@Defensive_Wounds Get the bike riders involved and that would change. It's worked in Joburg south Africa, so it's worth a go👍🏻
Hi Mark, Good show, Here in Arkansas USA I allow the weeds to grow up around my tomatoes at the end of the season. The tomatoes will continue to produce till about December. These weeds die at the first frosts eliminating any weed seeds, but the weeds insulate the tomatoes and hold the day time heat in the ground. There is nothing that tastes better than fresh home grown tomatoes in the dead of winter here. Jessie Arkansas USA
I am grateful and thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge. I learn and gain a lot of knowledge from your videos. Thank you sir
Even though I am from Florida, USA, your videos are very applicable to my zone 9b garden. All the time I find seedling in the wrong area. One yr, sweet basil did amazing in the shade of tomatoes.
Last year I used some volunteer sunflowers as posts to wrap bean vines around and to hold my tomato plants off the ground. I think I'm going to plant them purposfully this year anywhere I might need a stake. Sunflowers are a great and bountiful crop that take up basically no space if you plant around them. In the US, I'm not trying to shade anything, so the sparse leaves of the sunflower are perfect.
Good information, I live in the southern U.S (Also subtropical ) and even though it’s a whole different hemisphere I’ve gleaned lots of useful tips from watching your videos. Example: I am the only person I know successfully growing artichoke in south Louisiana. I have friends look at my artichoke plants with this perplexed look on their face! Usually asking what the heck is that? I tell them come back in June and I will show you. I am just a few weeks away from my spring planting and I assure you I will be experimenting with underplanting. I love the idea of taking advantage of micro climates. 👍👍👍
Cape gooseberry continues sprouting after growing once yum. And Calendula which I use as salad!
Great technique to follow. It gets hot 🥵 here too, so I have also done something similar. I use sunflowers 🌻 too to help shade some plants 😊
This is the greatest channel ever. I watch this and Earth Titan only. Never a video I have already seen.
Here in America, the Native Americans had a growing method called the "Three Sisters". Growing squash, corn, and beans in the same location. Squash shades out weeds, corn grows high above the shade, and beans grow up the corn stalk! Try it sometime if you can. Now that I think about it, I bet you can use okra to substitute corn... Hope this helps!
Coming into spring now I have put my lettuce in between my broad beans for extra shade. Working a treat
Thank you. I'm working with a small space, and I'm actually doing a new garden plot this year. Half of the space I'm alloting is shaded some of the day and the other half is full sun. I was so discouraged about not having enough space to plant everything I want. And I know about companion planting, and three sisters, but for some reason I just wasnt thinking I could really make it work. Not with the space i have. This video very much has uplifted me and encouraged me that even if I'm throwing things in where ever I can fit them, that I can still grow what I want. I just have to get a little creative, and think outside the box. Thanks for that so much. I'm subscribing for more for sure!
Didn’t realize that I just did that with edamame and arugula in a container pot thanks for the info always pleased with all the gold nuggets of knowledge you graciously pass on 👍🙏
That's useful. I grow at home, no space, but i keep on bringing more and more stuff to grow. It'll soon will grow out of space.
i am new to your channel. we are here in Indonesia never thought about planting season. that's new to me. since we toast scraps from kitchen anytime anywhere in the garden and they will grow whenever they like.. thanks for the knowledge, i learn something new today..
Hey Mark. I did underplanting last November with butter beans in between my corn. Worked a treat and the best crop I had and I LOVE butterbeans.
Tried 2 this season.
One is companion planting, which I think is called 3 sisters - corn, peas and squash/pumpkin.
Another is a common one - in a tomato’s bed, I’ve also planted some basil.
Have you ever tried the 3sisters companion cropping? Corn squash and bean. Corn provides shade and acts as a trellis. Beans climb corn and add nitrogen. Squash covers ground maintaining moisture and keeping down undergrowth. Old Indian method
"5 examples of planting extra corn everywhere" :P
Popping corn, red corn, purple corn, and standard sweet corn :)
@@Selfsufficientme From what I remember in Aussie, a half piece of sweet corn is a normal serving. In Canada, about four cobs each is a normal serving :)
@@barbll000 lol not in this household. We love our corn on the cob!
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@@Selfsufficientme whatt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no blue corn lol
This reminds me of the Native Americans planting corn, beans, and squash together, and with another of your video they would place a fish in the hole when planting. Keep up the good work.
Collards are AMAZING FRESH and Cooked! Also an awesome Cover Crop as well as great for feeding Chickens! Enjoy! Love the under crops!
Loved this video. I'm in USA and we do have severe winter weather, but we also have severe heat in the summer. Tomatoes do ok if you're careful with watering, but brassicas do not. I plant broccoli and cauliflower behind my tomatoes, slightly shaded to extend the growing season into mid-summer. Those cold winters mean a shorter growing season and my brick house makes a great heat generator for starting early, I can plant peas and green beans a full 3 weeks earlier if i put them next to the south facing brick.
Great tip for using stored heat in brick walls for growing 👍
I like the idea of growing corn in raised planters - makes them look quite attractive in a small space
On the opposite end of the spectrum it is winter here where my farm is and temperatures can get quite cold. So I use low tunnels catterpar tunnels, cold frames and high tunnels to extend the growing season. I am growing carrots currently in temperatures well below freezing.
Yeah mate I do it all the time only my version is what me and Rob from "bits out the back" call volunteers.
I only have a courtyard garden and I don't buy soil in, I've only ever built up soil with composting. But I usually only ever slow compost. So all those seeds that are preserved amongst the compost come up whenever it suits them and it's usually underneath another plants shade.
A big 👍 from me Mark.
Thank you so much!
My mum was right into doing this, companion planting aka permaculture.
We always had salad veg even in the middle of our very cold (-7°c) winters.
Mark im north of you in Qld and I’ve found using black mesh with Whites super fine white mesh over the top of the black cuts out a lot of the UVA and UVB over hoop covers. Allows me to grow corriander, lettuces etc all thru Summer, I use wood mulch over the tops and only need to water every 6 weeks…I’m getting super perfect veg I’ve never been able to grow before in Summer. Great idea to pick young collard leaves.👍
Hi Mark, great video as usual. I have Jerusalem artichokes growing in a bed with concrete wall panels to prevent them taking over the whole front yard. They make an excellent spot for planting climbing beans. These plants grow to around 3 meters here in George, Western Cape. Also have New Zealand spinach growing under the protection of ginger leaves, the temperature here has been unbelievable the last week or so - 41deg C under our porch as an example.
I am a market farmer and I do similar things to double production on a given plot of garden. I also use shade cloth to extend growing for certain crops. During the heat of summer it is hard to grow a lot of greens without shade cloth.
Hi from Collierville Tn. USA. I planted sugar snap peas under my TOMATOES in mid summer for a Fall harvest. I kept the leaves pulled off of tomatoes on the bottom, especially the brown ones the stuck less seeds around it. I worked for me and it was an experiment. Thanks for your tips.
I have been trying this out with some good results in Arizona. The greens seem to do pretty well as undergrowth. I also throw in some marigold flowers.
It gets pretty hot here in Sacramento, California...I'm going to borrow all of these tips when I plant for summer! Thank you so much.
Awesome video Mark. Love your videos and you got an amazing garden. Hanve a great weekend, Andreas 🇸🇪
G'day Andreas! Good to see your comment mate. Cheers :)
My wife's mom used to plant things under corn like you're doing to have a longer growing season. We live in Arkansas, USA and we do have cold weather in the winter.