Polyculture at 7 months
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- 7 months after sowing our annual polyculture we're still harvesting parsnips, carrots, parsley, chard and chicories! The bed has been extremly productive and very low maintenance - little watering and almost no weeding.
Previous videos on the polyculture:
Sowing polyculture of annual vegetables: • Easy polyculture of an...
Polyculture at 4 weeks: • Polyculture at 4 weeks
Polyculture at 3 months: • Polyculture at 3 months
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I planted our poly culture garden in late April. It is very productive, our first harvest was lettuce, radish, and baby kale. As the summer progressed we harvested beets, cilantro and spinach. I am currently harvesting daikon radish and turnips. We are located in agriculture zone 6a in west central Illinois. You’re you tube channel is one of my favorites.
Thank you, Perry, for the wonderful update and the lovely compliment! It's interesting to hear what other vegetables you've included (kale, turnips, daikon...) - I think I'll try adding some of these to my next year's polyculture!
Beautiful update!!!! Like to see multiple conditions for the same gardening technique!
Thanks Perry. It's really good to know that your different vegetables worked well too!
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Just found your channel. I like what you are doing!
Thank you! I enjoy your videos too!!
That. Looks. Amazing.
I throw seeds like crazy all kind of vegetables and flowers,and I never seen a most healthy and beatiful plantas in the same place all mix together now I know why.
Great to hear polyculture are working for you so well!!
Thank you for the wonderful info!!
Thank you very much
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great variety, thanks for sharin
Thank you! Polycultures are fun :-)
going to give this a try in the new yearxx
Nice! Let me know how it works out for you please!
Very cool videos! I appreciate your time to translate the units to Fahrenheit, and feet, we Americans will catch up I’m hoping after our current regime;). Although it is probably hotter here, I want to try with more drought adapted plants, such as amaranth, our local wild chard variety, and maybe these shallots which haven’t dried a bit even after two years of hiding in my car;). We get a few storms in fall winter and spring here, so the summertime and during our current winter drought I need to hand water, so any varieties which can take at most a strong water a week or other week would be perrrfevt for me, any recommendations would be very appreciated. Unless it is smarter to plain do a winter version of what you have since it stays in the 30s-50s (I’m sorry I don’t know celcius;(. ) throughout our winters here:). Thanks again
Anthony Ferrer Thanks, Anthony! I hope my conversions are right:-) I think that if your climate is very hot, growing the polyculture in fall and winter might be a better option since most greens bolt quickly in warn &dry weather. If you try it, please let me know how it turns out!
Anthony Ferrer If you try the polyculture in fall/ winter in might be a good idea to include more cold resistant crops such as claytonia, mâche, spinach, land cress and oriental radishes. If you get enough daylight, these should grow quite well.
We are suposed to get a frost as well tonight so I must bring all my squash in and my pot plants like lemon ,mango and other sub tropical plants in the hause and I must harvest my sweet potateo the rest of the garden is just full with kale ,cabage,parsnips and other crops that still grow in the cold.
I didn't do a polyculture this year as I wanted to see how yours did but will try in spring I don't think we are to far apart so the climate is very simerler
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Thank you, Richard! I hope you try the polyculture next year :-) I grew my sweet potatoes in the greenhouse this year and will probably harvest next weekend - I'm very curious about whether growing in the greenhouse will improve the harvest!
Having watched your first video, I sowed mine about a month after yours, but after mustard disaster (that was me choosing the wrong varieties)! Loads of great lettuce was then taken over by the chard which I have been harvesting for months and using in smoothies. A few carrots and beats and as you say very little work. It was -4c here in the UK last night so will be interesting to see how it got on in that! Very few spring onions germinated and no parsnips at all. Will certainly sow again in the spring again. I was wondering whether to try a winter version in late summer to harvest through the winter but didn't get around to it!
Thank you, Steve, for the update! I'm glad to hear that you've harvested a lot from your polyculture, too! Could the poor germination of parsnips and spring onions possibly be because the seed was old? Parsnip seeds only stay viable for a year, so older seed will not germinate and onions are not much better... I was also thinking about trying another version of the polyculture for sowing around midsummer - I hope to do that next year!
Possibly - I always buy fresh parsnip seeds - as I did this year but had no germination in the normal rows or this bed so probably bad seed and you know everyone has something that just wont grow for them? Well mine are spring onions!
Mine are Brussels sprouts :-)
Hello - I did the polyculture bed and I had a glut of lettuces to begin with. I'm wondering if I left them in too long or sowed too many other seeds because after that everything went a bit pear-shaped...I seemed to get a lot of carrots and beets but they are tiny and nothing else really apart from that, the occasional parsley plant and very few onions and everything just super small. I must say, I didn't really tend to it at all. I live in Brittany, France. Thanks for the videos, and your super blog! :)
Thank you, Rachel! Yes, I think your plants probably were too crowded if you only got tiny ones. Harvesting (= thinning) from the polyculture can be very time consuming, especially in the beginnning, but it is very important. But I'm glad to hear that you at least got plenty of lettuce :-)
Well i'll know better next time and maybe i'll sow a few less lettuces! :)
I'm so glad you're willing to give the polyculture another try! I hope it will work out better!
How to cook leeks
Here are a two of my favourite recipes using leeks : leek and potato soup (www.growntocook.com/?p=771), leek and goat cheese galette (www.growntocook.com/?p=4914)
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