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Learn Organic Gardening at GrowingYourGreens Hi John. It sure would be nice to see what you eat in your plant based diet. How do you cook them to be super tasty. What herbs n spices you mix in ☺ Doesn't have to be a cookery video feed. A little gas hob in your garden, collect veggies and throw them in a pan sort of thing. How do you very your plant food diet so you don't get bord?
I’m glad that someone irritated you enough to make this video. I live in VA and it is always hot and humid and my garden is on a slope and it drains well, almost too well and my soil always get too dry. I cannot grow the tomatoes so close together because of pests and diseases. But you gave a lot of good ideas of other plants to put in between to “cover” the ground as a living mulch. I loved that! I just put my tomatoes in some wide rows and I’m going to plant basil, green beans and lettuce in between to cover the ground underneath to deter pests, provide more nitrogen and to create a living lettuce mulch. Wish me luck!
The Pepper bed looks awesome, I plant many of my plants really close too,,but I understand the reasons why you should and shouldn't. I grow mine using companion planting following natures rules to reap the benefits. I guess you would say the method I follow is more along the lines of permaculture. Great that you brought out this video John All the best from Australia Marty Ware (small space gardening Australia) ps: Purslane covering the ground is so smart,,,bottom layer crop and more microbes.
This is also known as the "clumping" method, an intensive planting technique that is beneficial if you have hot summers and your pepper plants suffer in the daytime heat. Planting your peppers close together creates a dense canopy that traps cooler air below the leaves, which keeps the stomata open longer than standard plant spacing, and slows soil evaporation. There are a number of scholarly articles available on this topic. Another benefit is the plant branches support each other, meaning reduced or no need for cages or external supports. Is the yield lower? I can't say for sure, but I have been using the clumping method for years, and while the individual plant yield is definitely reduced, overall yield is the same or better, because you have more plants in the same area versus standard spacing. Good video John!
You have a great understanding of the spectrum between what's good and bad what one person says is good may not be good for the other. You do a great job of planting your plants. I have found some peppers spread out and some grow tall you need to know how your plants grow so you can put them in the right place.
Do what works best for you and your garden John. I trust your advice, I love your videos and watch them all the time. I don't care what anyone says I think your channel is awesome. Keep up the good work : )
When I set small seed, like turnip, I put them in rows across the bed at 4" or the distance recommended for in row plant spacing, which ever is larger. Then, when I thin them out, it looks like a square foot gardening spacing. IMO, for a back yard garden and low tech maintenance, you feed the soil. The plant needs only enough room to grow so you just need to make sure plants are separated with the in row recommendations in all directions.
Lollll i love your funny personality and carefree style and just experimenting, trying things out. I have a smaller space too in the city so gonna try this ty so much 😊
Thanks I always thought the recommendations were a little odd. I did not follow the recommendations and planted my lettuce closer, worked out just fine
If I have multiple ones growing in one space, should I pull the others and o ky keep one? Typically multiple seeds sprout, and Im wondering if it would be better to keep the area limited to a single one.
The recommended spacing for plants is very conservative not only with vegetables but with annual flowers also. I find that planting closer is just fine. Extra nutrients in the soil helps to make the veggie plants happy. And some leafy plants grow perfectly fine close together even without extra nutrients in the soil such as lettuce, kale, mustard greens, basil, parsley, cilantro...I like to scatter these seeds also and let nature take its course...
what about different plant species and if they are cooperative or competitive? I have a hugelkultur type garden in my back porch. which types of food crops are competitive or cooperative? ive got different types of plants i need to know if any are fighting eachother.
Great video John, and yes it’s all about where you live. Down here in Deep South Mississippi we battle blight all the time. Constantly creating good air flow
My kale bolted on me so im drying the seed and i planted peppers in its place . plant my plants close becuase i got like 2 feet of dark beautiful topsoil below and i also train my plants up
Great video john. I have a question you might know the answer to. Since it's not a good idea to put onions and garlic into a vermicompost bin does growing onions and garlic negatively affect the worms in the soil?
Copy the forest 101: The bed behind John and the peppers has tree collards as the canopy and a sub layer of edibles underneath. Question: what does "Full Sun" on a purchased tree or start actually mean? Will it need 6+ hrs of blaring sun or can a glimmer of sun through the leaves of a higher canopy for 12 hrs suffice?
Osem video John I understand what your saying I some times don,t necessarily plant my seeds to close toghther or fare apart I just let them fall where thay may
I love this! You hit the nail on the head! I also have limited space and also a limited season so I am guilty of overplanting but LUDICROUS is the perfect word, Mother Nature doesn't get out a ruler! If things aren't producing I can thin them out for sure but with my short seasons I can't go back and replant in time for harvest. I always overplant and am never sorry I did. Thank you for this!
Jessica, Weed early and often. When plants are small a simple scrape of the surface will kill them, but when they get more established, their roots will dig in an make weeding a huge chore
My mom came from the country land of Laos! She is an expert at planting, cause that's the only way they know how to survive. My mom plants her peppers closer too. Only like squash she gives it some space and she isn't using anything to measure! Every year we sell at the flea market in WI, beautiful Organic produce!!!!
Sorry BUT if a gardener can't watch a video to gather information from because it's TOO LONG then I shudder to think of them in the garden waiting for seeds to sprout 🤣🤣
I agree with most of what you say, and I like and relate to your ideas of filling up all available space and succession planting ideas. There are always different ways of doing things. Nature deciding spacing works both ways thou, as plants compete with other. As a gardener you also have control over what you can control, you can try to space so you get bigger plants with better quality food. That is part of the challenge of vegetable gardening. You seem a bit obsessed with seeing how much stuff you can fit, which is not a bad thing as you enjoy the challenge but sometimes you got to step back and compare quantity versus quality... can you do it better? Would you get less peppers with less plants? Probably not, you might even get more high quality ripened peppers. Or maybe the same yield. There are many different ways to garden. The only reason I see to plant the peppers so close is because of water conserving issues.
In northern illinois we have the opposite climate its crazy humid and has been raining really quiet a bit. Thanks for introducing me to curtis stone who introduced me to jon martin fortier who intraduced me to richard perkins and farmer brown . forget those negative people continue being a living example of what you want to see in the world and everthing else work itself out .
He process it he has whole house system think he has done video on it , I just use basic charcoal caravan filter for my garden you can pick them up for next to nothing and will last you season.
As always, thanks for the good info John. I am ready for you to get out of a city and a desert. Get 5 or 10 acres in central Florida or somewhere that gets more rain than Las Vegas.
John - The sq/ ft. method has to be just a way to give people who have just fallen off the turnip truck a place to start. When you look at the garden from a Permaculture perspective, sometimes closer is better. You should know. Haven't you interviewed people with thriving ORCHARDS who planted TREES way too closely together who have thriving orchards? Nature is very forgiving. What man knows about Nature could fit in a thimble. Forget about criticisms from people who follow popular indoctrination about gardening. Just suggest that they might be brainwashed and accepting the mainstream information too readily without researching if it is really the truth or not.
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Hi John. It sure would be nice to see what you eat in your plant based diet. How do you cook them to be super tasty. What herbs n spices you mix in ☺
Doesn't have to be a cookery video feed. A little gas hob in your garden, collect veggies and throw them in a pan sort of thing. How do you very your plant food diet so you don't get bord?
I’m glad that someone irritated you enough to make this video. I live in VA and it is always hot and humid and my garden is on a slope and it drains well, almost too well and my soil always get too dry. I cannot grow the tomatoes so close together because of pests and diseases. But you gave a lot of good ideas of other plants to put in between to “cover” the ground as a living mulch. I loved that! I just put my tomatoes in some wide rows and I’m going to plant basil, green beans and lettuce in between to cover the ground underneath to deter pests, provide more nitrogen and to create a living lettuce mulch. Wish me luck!
John, you are looking ripped! Loving your approach and reasoning.
The Pepper bed looks awesome, I plant many of my plants really close too,,but I understand the reasons why you should and shouldn't. I grow mine using companion planting following natures rules to reap the benefits.
I guess you would say the method I follow is more along the lines of permaculture.
Great that you brought out this video John
All the best from Australia
Marty Ware (small space gardening Australia)
ps: Purslane covering the ground is so smart,,,bottom layer crop and more microbes.
This is also known as the "clumping" method, an intensive planting technique that is beneficial if you have hot summers and your pepper plants suffer in the daytime heat. Planting your peppers close together creates a dense canopy that traps cooler air below the leaves, which keeps the stomata open longer than standard plant spacing, and slows soil evaporation. There are a number of scholarly articles available on this topic.
Another benefit is the plant branches support each other, meaning reduced or no need for cages or external supports. Is the yield lower? I can't say for sure, but I have been using the clumping method for years, and while the individual plant yield is definitely reduced, overall yield is the same or better, because you have more plants in the same area versus standard spacing.
Good video John!
You have a great understanding of the spectrum between what's good and bad what one person says is good may not be good for the other. You do a great job of planting your plants. I have found some peppers spread out and some grow tall you need to know how your plants grow so you can put them in the right place.
Buying my tee tomorrow! Love your videos
Great Garden. I plant all my vegetable plants close also and grows perfect!
I grow my greens, thanks for all your great info,
Do what works best for you and your garden John. I trust your advice, I love your videos and watch them all the time. I don't care what anyone says I think your channel is awesome. Keep up the good work : )
When I set small seed, like turnip, I put them in rows across the bed at 4" or the distance recommended for in row plant spacing, which ever is larger. Then, when I thin them out, it looks like a square foot gardening spacing.
IMO, for a back yard garden and low tech maintenance, you feed the soil. The plant needs only enough room to grow so you just need to make sure plants are separated with the in row recommendations in all directions.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Please keep sharing! The complainers can kick rocks and find a life! 🌱
Lollll i love your funny personality and carefree style and just experimenting, trying things out. I have a smaller space too in the city so gonna try this ty so much 😊
Your garden, your choice. Just be you.
Good video thanks for sharing God bless you and yours.
Thanks I always thought the recommendations were a little odd. I did not follow the recommendations and planted my lettuce closer, worked out just fine
Hi john, this vidoe was perfect. I just got my 1st raise bed and this was rhe topic of mu video. Didn't know what is to much.
If I have multiple ones growing in one space, should I pull the others and o ky keep one? Typically multiple seeds sprout, and Im wondering if it would be better to keep the area limited to a single one.
Really good episode! Thanks for sharing!
John nice info l live it LV. to do you have a prob with the hot summer sun for your beds. Thanks
Plz come up with your own desert gardening plant spacing guide!
Great video episode.
The recommended spacing for plants is very conservative not only with vegetables but with annual flowers also. I find that planting closer is just fine. Extra nutrients in the soil helps to make the veggie plants happy. And some leafy plants grow perfectly fine close together even without extra nutrients in the soil such as lettuce, kale, mustard greens, basil, parsley, cilantro...I like to scatter these seeds also and let nature take its course...
what about different plant species and if they are cooperative or competitive? I have a hugelkultur type garden in my back porch. which types of food crops are competitive or cooperative? ive got different types of plants i need to know if any are fighting eachother.
Excellent gardening information! 👍
hi john, what is the brand called for your mycorrhiza fungai that you use for sprincles on your root zone - cheers
Great video John, and yes it’s all about where you live. Down here in Deep South Mississippi we battle blight all the time. Constantly creating good air flow
How did you get your kale to look like a small tree. That’s so cool
My kale bolted on me so im drying the seed and i planted peppers in its place . plant my plants close becuase i got like 2 feet of dark beautiful topsoil below and i also train my plants up
Pre-ordered my shirt :-) you're the man John!
Great video john.
I have a question you might know the answer to.
Since it's not a good idea to put onions and garlic into a vermicompost bin does growing onions and garlic negatively affect the worms in the soil?
I love you John! I don't care what anybody says. You da bomb!
Copy the forest 101: The bed behind John and the peppers has tree collards as the canopy and a sub layer of edibles underneath. Question: what does "Full Sun" on a purchased tree or start actually mean? Will it need 6+ hrs of blaring sun or can a glimmer of sun through the leaves of a higher canopy for 12 hrs suffice?
Osem video John I understand what your saying I some times don,t necessarily plant my seeds to close toghther or fare apart I just let them fall where thay may
I love this! You hit the nail on the head! I also have limited space and also a limited season so I am guilty of overplanting but LUDICROUS is the perfect word, Mother Nature doesn't get out a ruler! If things aren't producing I can thin them out for sure but with my short seasons I can't go back and replant in time for harvest. I always overplant and am never sorry I did.
Thank you for this!
May be a stupid question but do you have any weeding tips?
Jessica, Weed early and often. When plants are small a simple scrape of the surface will kill them, but when they get more established, their roots will dig in an make weeding a huge chore
Seedilicious what tool do you use? Or your hands?
I use stirrup hoe if they are small, I will also use a shovel or handpick if I let the weeds grow too big.
My mom came from the country land of Laos! She is an expert at planting, cause that's the only way they know how to survive. My mom plants her peppers closer too. Only like squash she gives it some space and she isn't using anything to measure! Every year we sell at the flea market in WI, beautiful Organic produce!!!!
Sorry BUT if a gardener can't watch a video to gather information from because it's TOO LONG then I shudder to think of them in the garden waiting for seeds to sprout 🤣🤣
It's all useful information John!...thank you!
I agree with most of what you say, and I like and relate to your ideas of filling up all available space and succession planting ideas. There are always different ways of doing things. Nature deciding spacing works both ways thou, as plants compete with other. As a gardener you also have control over what you can control, you can try to space so you get bigger plants with better quality food. That is part of the challenge of vegetable gardening. You seem a bit obsessed with seeing how much stuff you can fit, which is not a bad thing as you enjoy the challenge but sometimes you got to step back and compare quantity versus quality... can you do it better? Would you get less peppers with less plants? Probably not, you might even get more high quality ripened peppers. Or maybe the same yield. There are many different ways to garden. The only reason I see to plant the peppers so close is because of water conserving issues.
In northern illinois we have the opposite climate its crazy humid and has been raining really quiet a bit. Thanks for introducing me to curtis stone who introduced me to jon martin fortier who intraduced me to richard perkins and farmer brown . forget those negative people continue being a living example of what you want to see in the world and everthing else work itself out .
GREAT VID (as usual) Thanks John.
You inspired me to grow food you are awesome and you showed people that you know how to do it so who cares what they say
My dude is looking buff!
Gym and gardening hell yeah dude!
Hey John. I thought you were in NorCal. Where are you? What happened to the NorCal house and garden?
Good video I was looking for something like this. I will be more chill with my plant spacing in the future. hehe
God bless john ive been a fan for long time. Kee up the good work. Definitely gotta get me one of those t shirts
I always heard that peppers liked to hold hands. To me they grow better close together.
Hey John, could you talk a bit about the water you feed your plants, like do you use city chlorinated water? or do you process it somehow?
He process it he has whole house system think he has done video on it , I just use basic charcoal caravan filter for my garden you can pick them up for next to nothing and will last you season.
Thanks Americanwillow
Thanks Gavin, I will look up that video.
Do you find shading new seed beds helps with germination? Having to do so in El Paso the last couple of years, but never did so a decade ago.
How do you maintain such a positive attitude! I'm sure the home grown healthy diet helps 😄
Nice beds
Dont they fall apart in heavy rain
Are they glued together
They look like brick and mortar. " Glued together " you really think that's what he did. Com'on stop trolling.
Carlos Solis im not a troll,im a custumer of his.
Yes u can glue them w liguid nails.
Crowd spacing or natural selection?
As always, thanks for the good info John. I am ready for you to get out of a city and a desert. Get 5 or 10 acres in central Florida or somewhere that gets more rain than Las Vegas.
How about people who have a garden, not an area filled in with raised beds?
Just bought my tee!
Always thought the spacing on seed packets are over zealous. After all they are only guidelines on a lot of variables.
Lmao . A John Quoteable.
"... A weed is only a weed - if you smoke it..."
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U look so good and I love ur video's
Very logical 😊
RIGHT..
How many packs of pepper plants could you plant if you picked all the packs of pepper plant packs? hhee
Hey John, i could tell by your tone that the ig comment really bothered you 😅 perhaps some blue skullcap? lol
John - The sq/ ft. method has to be just a way to give people who have just fallen off the turnip truck a place to start. When you look at the garden from a Permaculture perspective, sometimes closer is better. You should know. Haven't you interviewed people with thriving ORCHARDS who planted TREES way too closely together who have thriving orchards?
Nature is very forgiving. What man knows about Nature could fit in a thimble. Forget about criticisms from people who follow popular indoctrination about gardening. Just suggest that they might be brainwashed and accepting the mainstream information too readily without researching if it is really the truth or not.
A weed is a volunteer plant growing where you don't want it to grow.
"a weed is only a weed if you smoke it"
dont have a phone or instagram. sorry.
your shirt cost too much for avg joes like me.
People are funny. This isn’t your first rodeo lol 🙄😅
John you've been doing this for years. Really, who can tell you that your peppers are planted to close together? Really, who?
it's too long, and your plants are too close