Currently have 20, 25' beds with most intercropped in many configurations. Some were sacrificial crops to deter flea Beatles and then make their way to the compost heap to feed my money crops. I'm growing more in 2000 Square feet than most grow successful in an acre. Relay and sacrificial plants are fueling the best growing season I've had in a while, all with no pesticides, or commercial fertilizer.
@@collinrothwell8532 bok choi is a great trap crop. It grows quick and flea beetles will all shift to that row. Another is collards. They're a bit slower on growth. But they get the job done with less cost
I had major issues with flea beetles in sage and mints a few years back. Searched online and someone suggested nasturtiums. Every year since I’ve always added some nasturtium seeds to the pots and haven’t seen a single flea beetle since. Nasturtiums also act as a trap crop for butterflies attracted laying eggs on brassicas … as long you don’t get extreme numbers of butterflies like here where looks like snow flurries some summers as thousands fly through the gardens. Which is why I’m working on frames for exclusion netting during warmer months. 😊
Great video This year we nailed a few relay crops: Greenhouse overwintered chard on outside lettuce in middle. sewed peas into middle after lettuce. Cut out chard when eggplant was ready to go in outside rows. final picking of snap peas, folded them over in center as mulch for eggplants for summer. Outdoors, 6 rows radish, 2 rows fava, sewn at same time. Picked all radishes out, and sewed beets. Favas will be done and cut down by the time beets close the bed. Pole bean row, 3 rows salad, potato row. Cut salad 4 times, then let it go (now cover crop) as potatoes take over understory, and pole beans climb above on trellis. Sewed carrots between my peas outdoors... I think that one is going to work too... but the peas are sorta falling onto carrots, may block too much light.. havent started picking yet. Learned from Frith Farm, to direct seed parsley between kale just to have something to feed mycorrhizae... since brassicas do not feed themselves... parsley keeps the fungal cycle going, even if it never gets to a harvestable size.... last the whole season with the kale.
Wow.............that's impressive. I wish the world could comprehend how much hard labor and intellect it takes to be a successful farmer. You have to be some of the most resilient people I've ever met. Thanks for sharing your successes.
"Let me do the failing for you" Good advice and a beautiful service to offer, much needed right now while so many are so passionately learning but lack to depth of experience you've found in the field.
Lots of great ideas! Early march we started some peas on tomato trellising in a raised bed, sowed carrots, beets, turnips, and radishes around the peas. We pulled the root crops and the peas were still going, so we planted tomatoes under the peas. The peas finished and the tomatoes have assumed the trellis. Planted summer squash under the tomatoes and that coupling seems to be working well. We get bad cucumber beetles here so I usually plant amaranth as a bait crop, but this year they're going for the bush beans. I found that out by accident. I thought I was planting pole beans on the other side of the trellis from the cukes, they never climbed. Another inter-crop experiment I'm trying is malabar spinach, okra, and kiku chrysanthemum melons in a 3 sisters style bed. I've also learned that pole beans and potatoes will pass blight to each other, but pumpkins seems to be fine.
I'm not a market gardener. I'm a small yard gardener who is plagued with too much shade. However I've employed these techniques on a small scale every year. I intercropped onions with sweet potatoes with great success. Man you really have to be good with timing. What urks me is when I have to pull the snap peas out before they're completely done in order to get my heat loving crops in the ground. Your farm is so beautiful. I love that you are growing family with the same amount of passion. I've learned so much from your videos. Quite frankly I have to work hard to understand some of the things you talk about which is exciting. I'm really interested in the combinations of plantings that you come up with. Because of the shade issues I'm planting a lot of shade tolerant perennials. Gardening makes me work hard and think hard and sometimes I need a vacation from my garden but I wouldn't dream of leaving it for that long. lol 35 years ago I started my edible landscaping journey out of desperation to cope with an incredibly difficult child in a positive way. Now that child is my very best friend and so is my garden. May the Lord bless your family with a long life of joyful memories together.
Any size garden following this technique must be frenetic. As he was explaining intercropping along with relay, I started thinking of how slow I am deciding which veggie goes with what that. I Had to pause coz I started Getting anxious. 😂😂😂😂
@@juniekalu9340 The Old Farmer's Almanac has a good chart for companion planting-what goes with what and why. That may be a good starting point, if for no other reason than to rule out incompatibility and to address specific concerns. Jesse had a segment in one of his videos talking about soil health with respect to crop root depth (tomatoes vs. beets vs. squash, I think). Sorry, I don't remember which one but it was on intercropping. I've been gardening for years but never put that much effort into maximizing my space so I'm new at this. Also, Charles Dowding has outstanding examples in nearly every video. Caveat-he's in a UK maritime climate so you'd need to adjust to your zone but I've learned a lot from him.
My classic one is radish and carrot sown at the same time. Radish harvested first and gives room to the carrot. And also radishes and onions works pretty wel
Hi. I'm in the UK. Red cabbage transplants put into a bed following a July garlic harvest. Autumn sown carrots then sown between the rows of cabbage. Cutting the cabbage as needed and harvesting carrots which in this climate can stay in the ground overwinter (only occasional frost). Also potatoes followed by bush beans and leeks. The leeks grow on into winter when the bush beans have finished. 💚
I did corn, beans, and squash this year.. I started a row of corn inside, then 2 weeks later pole beans inside.. The pole beans were a mistake, since they sprouted like weeds and got taller than corn.. Luckily, the pole beans got set back during transplant, which allowed the corn to surpass the beans.. Now the pole beans are climbing the corn, and I can’t lie, it’s pretty damn satisfying to see! I planted squash direct seed, a week after transplants. I also sowed another row of corn the week of transplant and another row a week after my squash.. So far so good!
We're doing 5 mounds of three sisters in the old way - so a big round mound around 2" square with 4 corn stalks growing and then 4 vining beans around each corn stalk, and squash on the outside to block weeds. Instead of a fish under our new England corn, we used alpaca poop though It is so fun to watch to corn and the beans grow together. I had to stake a few stalks, but I think it's because they're growing in loose compost and I need to squish it more this fall. I want to radically increase these beds next year.
Great content and love the ideas. Can you recommend a resource the covers the different classification of plants and what works well with succession planting? Or if you've already done a video please post a link. Thanks
Would love to find out more about intercropping with perennials, i was trying myself with combinations of rhubarb, Siberian pea shrub, garlic chives and asparagus. I also am happy to use chard in intercropping; it grows very well here and i can just chop and drop it, atm i have my zuchini growing above it. (also had garlic, cauliflower and carrots mixed in that bed, carrots were a big failure but thats mainly germination problems)
Love this video! So cool. I'm not a very organized Gardener I like to throw my seeds literally. I have lots of different plants growing in lots of different places. I love how organized yours are. I have a lot to learn from you. I just found your channel and subscribed thanks
I am curious if you followed up on John Kemps recommendation for adding in foliars to improve photosynthesis? My guess is that would really bump up your production.
great stuff! thanks for the content you are sharing. i am studying agronomy and we learn about "critical period of weedness in production" (literal translation i dont know the frase in english) - basicly the period in a life of a crop when the weed competiton does the most damage to the yeld - though i dont know how much data there is about vegetable crops for this (for corn, soybeans etc. there is a lot) - i think it could be integrated in decision making for this metod of growing for sure (you could consider interplanted crops as weeds to eachother) .
There's an interplanting technique called the "Upsie" :D We tried to germinate carrots in the summer, they didn't germinate so we just planted some green kale(?) on it. Carrots were surprisingly ok and grew to a normal size once we havested the kale as baby leafs.
inch distancing, and now it’s been 15 days since we have transplanted the tomato to field beds, can I now plant 3 garlics in between each tomato plant and along with it can I prepare Basil flat bed to plant it later with garlic in octagonal design spacing of 12 inches and along with garlic planting can 2 plants of marigold be planted on the side borders in between tomato gaps ?
I’m not sure I would do garlic unless it’s solely for pest control. Green onions would do that too and give you a decent crop. Most garlic really needs a vernalization period to bulb up well--several weeks of cold temps. You could eat it as green garlic, which is tasty, but not quite the same thing as fresh garlic. Marigold and basil are fine. So is lettuce, beets, green onions, borage, sweet allysum, cilantro.
This is the first video of yours that Ive found! I just planted peas under my tomatoes in hopes that they’ll be a little shaded and slow enough to take off that by the time my tomatoes are finishing I can use their stakes to make a twine trellis for the peas. In between the peas I planted carrots, beets, radishes, and cilantro in 2 successions. Taking notes this year and encouraged to try new things! You won’t know until you try☺️ thanks for sharing
Way cool, Farmer Jesse. Your entrepreneurialism and generosity sharing lessons, perspectives and knowledge are a wonderful gift to so many out here. God Bless you & your family. +Willie in Vermont.
I'm not doing this to the scale you are but I have had great success with inter planting leaf lettuce(all different kinds) and kale with my broccoli and Brussels sprouts and tomatoes
We tried a bit this year. Direct sowed Green bush beans in April, followed by chard transplants along the edges in May. The beans are shading some of the chards but the ones that got some light are going well. Beans will be out soon giving the chard full space and light to carry on for the rest of the year. We will probably put a third row in the centre of the bed once the beans are out of the way.
Direct seed 2 rows of green beans ~16 inch apart. Then I direct sow 2 rows of radish in between, and a row on the outsides of the bed, for 4 rows of radish and 2 of green beans. I did this last year with just the 2 rows in the middle and all the radish came out just as the beans were ready to take up the space. So this year I am doing it again, for increased $ per sq ft, and deiced I could get more radish. With radish done in 3-4 weeks, they fist a lot of place.
Excellent video, as usual, you answered my questions almost as they occurred! 9:17 "Let me fail for you"! This is a great concept! Are you willing to travel?
Been doing weird stuff here somewhat inspired by you with the interplanting. Actually did the exact combo with the squash and radishes and loved it. I intended for the radishes to only be a cover crop for a newly formed bed with not finished compost but they turned out great. I did the reverse mow hawk with the radishes and planted squash down the middle. One thing that is becoming more and more apparent is that transplants are the key to success with most(not all) of the follow up crops. Good work, you rock.
Yes I plant onion plants the end of march beside them plant sweet potatoes onions come out sweet potatoes take that spot, also snow peas on a wire the other side is cucumbers peas come out cucumbers take over in fall replant snow peas. Also growing tomatoes on wire with cucumbers with lettuce under tomates that are heavily mulched with grass clippings and compost.
Brilliant! I am only a second year gardener, but I've always been fascinated with botany and I have been studying consistently. Last year I did a lot of interplanting in my organic, no-till garden. I am not a market gardener, but I do grow for local families and am doing my best to maximize my space. Thank you for this information. I find this truly inspirational and look forward to seeing more on this subject.
Dude... If you don't know the martial arts instructor 'Icy Mike' from the Hard 2 Hurt channel, look him up... 😄 You are his clone! Seriously, are you related? Like, presentation style and everything! Not an insult imo
B's..no primitive cultures did any farming as in they were self sustaining croppers and farmers. Advanced societies might have done that as in the Egyptians as noted in the bible. but no indigenous cultures. They all hunted in the world's most arid and desolate places like tundras , mountains, polar artic, jungles, boreal forests, forests everywhere most of the earth is a #foodDesert and most people's hunted the large herds of animals and no one was ever hungry...... #metabolicMind
Beets pole beans and green onion. Beets on the outsides, a line of green onions, transplanted at the same time, after sowing beans a few days earlier. everything grows up into a thick mat, green onions get a blanching from the beets, pole beans can climb right up the plastic fence. I think any vertically growing crops should always get an interplant/relay crop. I plant turnips, lettuces, cilantro, dill, almost anything with peas and pole beans. The small amount of shade the pea plants cast once they are a little taller can be helpful too.
funny, we are doing similar approach... we really all are connected. Infinite Monkey Theory. We have a small farm too and my name is Jessie field to fork farm palisade co.
Seems way too complicated/risky to depend on. Unless someone is extremely space constrained they are probably better off just getting consistent yields from single plantings.
Great goal to have. Can be done right?! If our ancestors did it then we can too! Wish you the best as that is an amazing way to garden / grow and you sound like you can get there soon. Good growing !
not sure i would put anything under something like that. the only thing i do is put radishes and baby carrots under brocoli and cabbage because they are out before the brocoli blocks sun.
I try to do this in my garden but ya all an experiment it be a bit different anywhere too My turnip and carrots are definately not getting along lol Im trying a few things with corn this year In my corn patch in areas I'm trying carrots Beets Beans Basil I like lettuce and carrots together Peppers and tomatoes do well if you give the tomatoes enough room to begin with...the tomatoes can shade the pepper a bit Im trying mallow okra and parsnip I will get back to you with more....i harvest many weeds for herbal uses too or a trap crop So i watch how they interact as well Like my clover on the pathway is fine but it needs chopping back when my squash need some light Lupin i have them in several gardens just pick off the seeds plant and sell them ;) they are great nitrogen fixers and attract pollinators but can spread by seed i never had a problem with the root spreading
I tried some inter-cropping for the first time in my garden this year and accidentally did some relay cropping! I dropped my beetroot seed packet! Thought I'd got them all up but ages after the mature beets and lettuce had been grown and picked, I saw this clump of beet seedlings so split them all out amongst the veg already there and they've been coming up stronger as I pick more mature veg out! It's a great idea and I will try to do it more next year! Thanks for your videos 🙂x
I never really saw this style before. Crop cover yes, but this is different, and very thought provoking for me. I live in the Philippines. It's hot and tropical and lettuce grows tall not wide here. It bolts in the heat, even on floating raft Aquaponics with nice cool water on the roots all day. However, why might be an idea is to hide the lettuce under the leaves of some beans or other bigger leafed plants. I'm a little scared that if sown amongst the big leaves of squash or pumpkin the small fragile lettuc may get muscled out of nutrients. Do you have any suggestions as to good partners for lettuce besides beans? Many thanks
I'm currently trying to figure out planting succession groups into 2 seasons for a half year crop rotation. Spring & Summer seasons and fall/winter seasons would have different things growing, but the seasonal rotations would stay the same for those beds. Instead of a 4 year crop rotation, I'm trying to figure out a constant planting schedule using inter-cropping for what would be a 1 year crop rotation. Essentially, you could plant the same few things every year and maintain soil fertility. Thank-you for engaging my brain, Farmer Jesse. I love learning.
We interplant herbs and flowers with each veggie. Tomatoes with basil, nasturtiums, and carrots. Rainbow chard with thyme. Kale with nasturtiums and cucumbers. Broccoli with beans and radish. Sweet alyssum with onions. Head lettuce, snow peas, tomatoes, marigolds, spinach, and carrots (all in one bed!). Lettuce and lemon balm. Zucchini and clover (cover crops will come at the end of the season to overwinter). Corn, beans squash, sunflower, and tobacco. I'm curious about planting directly mowed or crimped cover crop successes. Singing frogs farm in Santa Rosa, CA does a good job of always keeping the soil covered and plant roots in the ground. Daniel Mays @ Frith Farm doing some awesome stuff, too.
Here in CO.. I find less pest pressure on brocolli and brassicas planted very early.. Mind you I'm not market gardening, just making the most of my home garden. Radish or lettuce and Brocolli transplants in under some cover in late feb/March.. Then once the soil is warm an interplanting of Bush green beans under the broccoli..once brocolli is harvested beans and hopping! Works great here!
I think Charles Dowding sows head fennel bulbs in between maturing lettuce !!! I did that this year...lettuce maturing to almost seeding and fennel slowly taking off. I did sweet corn this year with broad beans and mangetout. I tried celeriac bulbs with lettuce and garden peas but who knows...my tomato trial with asparagus, basil, bunching onions, thyme, celery stalk, chillies, peppers and aubergines is sort of oooookkkkkkkkkkk but tomato blight struck so early here plus an underlying issue was that they were not trellised during the rain...boooo hoooo....plus a draught was forecast but lots of rain instead (wow or what ??). By the way, I have a permanent asparagus bed where I did salvage some tomato off shoots from the other bed before they died...I transplanted those particular suckers / side shoots in between the asparagus plants in their respective rows...like I said tomato blight took the others down big time but the ones interplanted with the permanent asparagus seem to be fine. All out doors !!
I learned from my Italian neighbours, but have kicked it up a notch... I’m in Canada, colder, so I sow onion sets early mid-April across the whole bed. Them mid-late May remove some as green onions and plant tomatoes at the back (North side) of the bed to vine and climb, then peppers-eggplants (occasionally potatoes) down the middle, and in the spaces In between, beets chard, lettuce, celery, etc. By the time my onions fall in July, the other stuff grows up and takes over, works awesome. I only do it this much because of lack of space. Also I prune the eggplants-peepers to cut the understory leaves to allow more light onto stuff closer to the ground like lettuce,,,
In low country, SC: Seeding cilantro, parsley underneath all fall/winter/spring crops, miners spinach underneath tall brassicas. Trellising bitter melon, snake gourd and malabar spinach over the greens in mid summer. Seeding dill under tomatoes to use blooms/seeds for pickling tomatoes. Also mid summer, sunflowers and amaranth underseeded with buckwheat on the west edge to shade from afternoon sun; native small peanuts, buckwheat, flax, borage and sweet potatoes in wood chips in paths between beds - I walk on them - they do not seem to care. Taro root and echinacea in rain-drain water ways.
Do you ever get mosaic virus and if you did what would you do? I just started my in ground garden but I've grown in containers and one problem we've had is our beans getting mosaic I even bought mosaic resistant bean and still got it,so I end up throwing my expensive mix in the trash which get expensive so I'm trying to decide if I should even plant beans in ground garden b cuz I cant throw my yard away like I can the potting mix please please please answer this question for me it seems to be a question no one else has answered. Thank you
Hello. New subscriber. I like how you do things. Let me just say our neighbors are Amish have have adapted some of our techniques (which are your techniques as well 😊) We never ever stop learning.
I have wanted to try planting garlic with tomatoes in the fall, then plant new tomatoes in the spring. Tomatoes would be about 2/3 grown now, and the garlic would be ready also. Amend with 2 inches of compost around the almost done producing tomatoes in the fall, then plant garlic. What do you think?
wonderful teaching. Thank you for the information. In my garden, I grow for myself neighbors and importantly the food bank. I will follow your successful experiments.
Great idea that I tried this year. I had a 50' x 4' bed (running east to west) that I transplanted 50 tomatoes in 2 rows spaced 1' from both edges, 2' apart, with three leads on 1 June after our last frost on 30 May here in Michigan (zone 6a...our latest frost that I remember us ever having). Two weeks later, down the middle (2' on centre of bed), I planted Turmeric (stated inside and 1' tall), staggered 1' from centre of the tomatoes. Then 6" from the edges on one side, I planted Icicle Radishes (south side) and on the other side I planted Evergreen Scallion (north side) in July. I harvested the radishes first in late August. I did the final harvested the tomatoes in September and removed them. Then we covered the bed, along with two other beds, with a single 55' tunnel. I harvested the Turmeric in late October and the Scallions are still in the bed, coming out whenever I need them for market. I am about ready to transplant 3 types of radishes, 3 types of turnips, and 3 types of beets into that bed here in a week or so. I am hoping that this will all be ready to come out in April sometime. I'll be putting Provider, Haricot, and Dragon Tongue to harvest next, but I think that I would be best to not plant them until I harvest the root crops out of concern that I would disturb the bean seeds to much by pulling the root crops during harvest. Any thoughts?
I did an inter-crop of zucchini with multi sown beets between each and a row of spinach along the two edges of the bed. When the spinach was close to last harvest I did a sow of turnips between them. Having it along the edge of the bed gives a lot of time for them to grow before the zucchini overtakes. I also did an inter-crop of beet greens under cabbage and one under kale, hasn't worked quite as well. I should have DS the beet greens earlier then done the transplants for kale/cabbage after. Just the other day tried out hakurei transplants under nearly ready bok choy. The spacing I use works out so they can inter plant to the correct spacing, we'll see how they turn out in the end.
I planted like this due to extra plants from green house would be thrown away. Sometimes they would not grow until the other crop was harvested. Then it would do great.
Hey boss, how do you deal with the shade adapted onions coming up in the heavy shade of zucchini? Once zucchini are cut out - do they go into photosynthetic shock/stress? thx
I’ve messed around with this a bit. It’s great when you find a good combination, but the extra labor involved in picking has to be taken into consideration too. I imagine this would be less of a problem for peasants or tribesman with kids around the plot to offer free labor.
Would love to have calendar when to seed/plant for this system approach.
My goal for next year is intensive mapping of our interplanting. So..you may see that one day!
That would be really cool
That’s something I would pay Money for
@@dalandutube me too
I look forward to seeing this calendar
You are living in paradise. Being a farmer is the most great job ever. Patience, care,loving,dilligent, hardworking and happiness.
Currently have 20, 25' beds with most intercropped in many configurations. Some were sacrificial crops to deter flea Beatles and then make their way to the compost heap to feed my money crops. I'm growing more in 2000 Square feet than most grow successful in an acre. Relay and sacrificial plants are fueling the best growing season I've had in a while, all with no pesticides, or commercial fertilizer.
I would love to know more about sacrificial crops , what crops are good for what pests ? We have chickens and goats to feed anyway .
@@collinrothwell8532 bok choi is a great trap crop. It grows quick and flea beetles will all shift to that row. Another is collards. They're a bit slower on growth. But they get the job done with less cost
@@collinrothwell8532look up how to make a "black soldier fly harvester" to feed your chickens and your garden. I made mine for around $25
I had major issues with flea beetles in sage and mints a few years back. Searched online and someone suggested nasturtiums. Every year since I’ve always added some nasturtium seeds to the pots and haven’t seen a single flea beetle since. Nasturtiums also act as a trap crop for butterflies attracted laying eggs on brassicas … as long you don’t get extreme numbers of butterflies like here where looks like snow flurries some summers as thousands fly through the gardens. Which is why I’m working on frames for exclusion netting during warmer months. 😊
Marigold plant acts as a good sacrificial crop.
Wow, Hello my friend.. All the best to your channel and hope you have a wonderful day !
Bushbeans with Zucchini and Salad is a very good combination.
Great video
This year we nailed a few relay crops:
Greenhouse overwintered chard on outside lettuce in middle. sewed peas into middle after lettuce. Cut out chard when eggplant was ready to go in outside rows. final picking of snap peas, folded them over in center as mulch for eggplants for summer.
Outdoors, 6 rows radish, 2 rows fava, sewn at same time. Picked all radishes out, and sewed beets. Favas will be done and cut down by the time beets close the bed.
Pole bean row, 3 rows salad, potato row. Cut salad 4 times, then let it go (now cover crop) as potatoes take over understory, and pole beans climb above on trellis.
Sewed carrots between my peas outdoors... I think that one is going to work too... but the peas are sorta falling onto carrots, may block too much light.. havent started picking yet.
Learned from Frith Farm, to direct seed parsley between kale just to have something to feed mycorrhizae... since brassicas do not feed themselves... parsley keeps the fungal cycle going, even if it never gets to a harvestable size.... last the whole season with the kale.
Wow.............that's impressive. I wish the world could comprehend how much hard labor and intellect it takes to be a successful farmer. You have to be some of the most resilient people I've ever met. Thanks for sharing your successes.
I just tore through your podcast. Love it. More of that!
so awesome to hear, thank you! Lots more coming, for sure. Season three is going to be 🤘
"Let me do the failing for you"
Good advice and a beautiful service to offer, much needed right now while so many are so passionately learning but lack to depth of experience you've found in the field.
Definitely don't want other people making expensive mistakes that I can get reimbursed for (so to speak).
I tried lettuce and carrots. Just cleared the lettuce. Carrots are doing great
Excellent
Lots of great ideas! Early march we started some peas on tomato trellising in a raised bed, sowed carrots, beets, turnips, and radishes around the peas. We pulled the root crops and the peas were still going, so we planted tomatoes under the peas. The peas finished and the tomatoes have assumed the trellis. Planted summer squash under the tomatoes and that coupling seems to be working well. We get bad cucumber beetles here so I usually plant amaranth as a bait crop, but this year they're going for the bush beans. I found that out by accident. I thought I was planting pole beans on the other side of the trellis from the cukes, they never climbed. Another inter-crop experiment I'm trying is malabar spinach, okra, and kiku chrysanthemum melons in a 3 sisters style bed. I've also learned that pole beans and potatoes will pass blight to each other, but pumpkins seems to be fine.
I'm not a market gardener. I'm a small yard gardener who is plagued with too much shade. However I've employed these techniques on a small scale every year. I intercropped onions with sweet potatoes with great success. Man you really have to be good with timing. What urks me is when I have to pull the snap peas out before they're completely done in order to get my heat loving crops in the ground. Your farm is so beautiful. I love that you are growing family with the same amount of passion. I've learned so much from your videos. Quite frankly I have to work hard to understand some of the things you talk about which is exciting. I'm really interested in the combinations of plantings that you come up with. Because of the shade issues I'm planting a lot of shade tolerant perennials. Gardening makes me work hard and think hard and sometimes I need a vacation from my garden but I wouldn't dream of leaving it for that long. lol 35 years ago I started my edible landscaping journey out of desperation to cope with an incredibly difficult child in a positive way. Now that child is my very best friend and so is my garden. May the Lord bless your family with a long life of joyful memories together.
Any size garden following this technique must be frenetic. As he was explaining intercropping along with relay, I started thinking of how slow I am deciding which veggie goes with what that. I Had to pause coz I started Getting anxious. 😂😂😂😂
@@juniekalu9340 The Old Farmer's Almanac has a good chart for companion planting-what goes with what and why. That may be a good starting point, if for no other reason than to rule out incompatibility and to address specific concerns. Jesse had a segment in one of his videos talking about soil health with respect to crop root depth (tomatoes vs. beets vs. squash, I think). Sorry, I don't remember which one but it was on intercropping. I've been gardening for years but never put that much effort into maximizing my space so I'm new at this.
Also, Charles Dowding has outstanding examples in nearly every video. Caveat-he's in a UK maritime climate so you'd need to adjust to your zone but I've learned a lot from him.
My classic one is radish and carrot sown at the same time. Radish harvested first and gives room to the carrot. And also radishes and onions works pretty wel
Hi. I'm in the UK. Red cabbage transplants put into a bed following a July garlic harvest. Autumn sown carrots then sown between the rows of cabbage. Cutting the cabbage as needed and harvesting carrots which in this climate can stay in the ground overwinter (only occasional frost). Also potatoes followed by bush beans and leeks. The leeks grow on into winter when the bush beans have finished. 💚
0:12 could you name that piece of equipment? Or did you have it custom made? What is exactly the thought behind this thing?
Same question.. "WTF was that ?" Looks like a manure spreader?
Landzie compost and peat moss spreader. will do a video soon--still playing with it
@@notillgrowers Thank you!
I did corn, beans, and squash this year.. I started a row of corn inside, then 2 weeks later pole beans inside.. The pole beans were a mistake, since they sprouted like weeds and got taller than corn.. Luckily, the pole beans got set back during transplant, which allowed the corn to surpass the beans.. Now the pole beans are climbing the corn, and I can’t lie, it’s pretty damn satisfying to see! I planted squash direct seed, a week after transplants. I also sowed another row of corn the week of transplant and another row a week after my squash.. So far so good!
We're doing 5 mounds of three sisters in the old way - so a big round mound around 2" square with 4 corn stalks growing and then 4 vining beans around each corn stalk, and squash on the outside to block weeds. Instead of a fish under our new England corn, we used alpaca poop though
It is so fun to watch to corn and the beans grow together. I had to stake a few stalks, but I think it's because they're growing in loose compost and I need to squish it more this fall. I want to radically increase these beds next year.
Great content and love the ideas. Can you recommend a resource the covers the different classification of plants and what works well with succession planting? Or if you've already done a video please post a link. Thanks
Love your hard work my brother!ceep up your entercroping . I am watching from Tanzania
Would love to find out more about intercropping with perennials, i was trying myself with combinations of rhubarb, Siberian pea shrub, garlic chives and asparagus. I also am happy to use chard in intercropping; it grows very well here and i can just chop and drop it, atm i have my zuchini growing above it. (also had garlic, cauliflower and carrots mixed in that bed, carrots were a big failure but thats mainly germination problems)
Love this video! So cool. I'm not a very organized Gardener I like to throw my seeds literally. I have lots of different plants growing in lots of different places. I love how organized yours are. I have a lot to learn from you. I just found your channel and subscribed thanks
I am curious if you followed up on John Kemps recommendation for adding in foliars to improve photosynthesis? My guess is that would really bump up your production.
great stuff! thanks for the content you are sharing. i am studying agronomy and we learn about "critical period of weedness in production" (literal translation i dont know the frase in english) - basicly the period in a life of a crop when the weed competiton does the most damage to the yeld - though i dont know how much data there is about vegetable crops for this (for corn, soybeans etc. there is a lot) - i think it could be integrated in decision making for this metod of growing for sure (you could consider interplanted crops as weeds to eachother) .
Thanks, Ivan! would love to learn more about this critical period of weediness for sure! What's the word that you know it by?
@@notillgrowers kritično razdoblje zakorovljenosti 😄 (croatian)
i see some papers on "critical period of crop-weed competition" try searching that
@@notillgrowers or "critical stages of weed competition"
@@notillgrowers This is very interesting and I would love to "watch" the two of you discuss this!
There's an interplanting technique called the "Upsie" :D We tried to germinate carrots in the summer, they didn't germinate so we just planted some green kale(?) on it. Carrots were surprisingly ok and grew to a normal size once we havested the kale as baby leafs.
Great video, thanks Jesse ! I love all of the trials you do, the best way to find out what works and what doesn't. Thanks for sharing your experience.
inch distancing, and now it’s been 15 days since we have transplanted the tomato to field beds, can I now plant 3 garlics in between each tomato plant and along with it can I prepare Basil flat bed to plant it later with garlic in octagonal design spacing of 12 inches and along with garlic planting can 2 plants of marigold be planted on the side borders in between tomato gaps ?
I’m not sure I would do garlic unless it’s solely for pest control. Green onions would do that too and give you a decent crop. Most garlic really needs a vernalization period to bulb up well--several weeks of cold temps. You could eat it as green garlic, which is tasty, but not quite the same thing as fresh garlic. Marigold and basil are fine. So is lettuce, beets, green onions, borage, sweet allysum, cilantro.
No-Till Growers can all these 4 crops grow in the same bed together , tomato, garlic, basil and marigold
Theres gonna have to be a time that you replace nutrients...so that bedd wont be 100% producing...but that's ok
This is the first video of yours that Ive found! I just planted peas under my tomatoes in hopes that they’ll be a little shaded and slow enough to take off that by the time my tomatoes are finishing I can use their stakes to make a twine trellis for the peas. In between the peas I planted carrots, beets, radishes, and cilantro in 2 successions. Taking notes this year and encouraged to try new things! You won’t know until you try☺️ thanks for sharing
Hello Morgan, could you please tell me when you plant your peas under the tomatoes?
Way cool, Farmer Jesse. Your entrepreneurialism and generosity sharing lessons, perspectives and knowledge are a wonderful gift to so many out here. God Bless you & your family. +Willie in Vermont.
I'm not doing this to the scale you are but I have had great success with inter planting leaf lettuce(all different kinds) and kale with my broccoli and Brussels sprouts and tomatoes
do you have a formula for crops that grow well together in terms of combination of resources they drain and how gast they grow ect?
We tried a bit this year. Direct sowed Green bush beans in April, followed by chard transplants along the edges in May. The beans are shading some of the chards but the ones that got some light are going well. Beans will be out soon giving the chard full space and light to carry on for the rest of the year. We will probably put a third row in the centre of the bed once the beans are out of the way.
Direct seed 2 rows of green beans ~16 inch apart. Then I direct sow 2 rows of radish in between, and a row on the outsides of the bed, for 4 rows of radish and 2 of green beans. I did this last year with just the 2 rows in the middle and all the radish came out just as the beans were ready to take up the space. So this year I am doing it again, for increased $ per sq ft, and deiced I could get more radish. With radish done in 3-4 weeks, they fist a lot of place.
Excellent video, as usual, you answered my questions almost as they occurred! 9:17 "Let me fail for you"! This is a great concept! Are you willing to travel?
Haha, no on-farm failings during the pandemic I guess
duckweed and azolla bed. Doo some water crops. Then you can harvest the duckweed as a mulch
Great videos! A question: there are some regularly-spaced "rocks" between the beds, about 3:00 in the vid. What's their purpose?
Been doing weird stuff here somewhat inspired by you with the interplanting. Actually did the exact combo with the squash and radishes and loved it. I intended for the radishes to only be a cover crop for a newly formed bed with not finished compost but they turned out great. I did the reverse mow hawk with the radishes and planted squash down the middle. One thing that is becoming more and more apparent is that transplants are the key to success with most(not all) of the follow up crops. Good work, you rock.
Awesome to hear, Paxton!
Yes I plant onion plants the end of march beside them plant sweet potatoes onions come out sweet potatoes take that spot, also snow peas on a wire the other side is cucumbers peas come out cucumbers take over in fall replant snow peas. Also growing tomatoes on wire with cucumbers with lettuce under tomates that are heavily mulched with grass clippings and compost.
Brilliant! I am only a second year gardener, but I've always been fascinated with botany and I have been studying consistently. Last year I did a lot of interplanting in my organic, no-till garden. I am not a market gardener, but I do grow for local families and am doing my best to maximize my space. Thank you for this information. I find this truly inspirational and look forward to seeing more on this subject.
I'm so glad we're moving away from the idea of "if you plant something in the __ family, dont plant it again in that spot for __ years"
This is a great way of you don’t have weed membrane! One day I’ll have no weed membrane! It will be awesome!
Love the channel
Dude... If you don't know the martial arts instructor 'Icy Mike' from the Hard 2 Hurt channel, look him up... 😄 You are his clone! Seriously, are you related? Like, presentation style and everything! Not an insult imo
I do Jesse but I am crap with tech. Would be wonderful beyond belief if you could have a look at my gardens I would melt for your feedback 😊🌱💚🙏✨
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B's..no primitive cultures did any farming as in they were self sustaining croppers and farmers. Advanced societies might have done that as in the Egyptians as noted in the bible. but no indigenous cultures. They all hunted in the world's most arid and desolate places like tundras , mountains, polar artic, jungles, boreal forests, forests everywhere most of the earth is a #foodDesert and most people's hunted the large herds of animals and no one was ever hungry......
#metabolicMind
Great help formy farming i save space. New frind here.
Beets pole beans and green onion. Beets on the outsides, a line of green onions, transplanted at the same time, after sowing beans a few days earlier. everything grows up into a thick mat, green onions get a blanching from the beets, pole beans can climb right up the plastic fence. I think any vertically growing crops should always get an interplant/relay crop. I plant turnips, lettuces, cilantro, dill, almost anything with peas and pole beans. The small amount of shade the pea plants cast once they are a little taller can be helpful too.
Nice! Thanks Evan
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funny, we are doing similar approach... we really all are connected. Infinite Monkey Theory. We have a small farm too and my name is Jessie field to fork farm palisade co.
Seems way too complicated/risky to depend on. Unless someone is extremely space constrained they are probably better off just getting consistent yields from single plantings.
Plant potatoes and direct seed spinach between the rows. I did this on accident when a volunteer potato plant came up.
I learned that beans don't do well interplanted with sweet potato
second that. okra does not seem to mind sweet potatos
Great goal to have. Can be done right?! If our ancestors did it then we can too! Wish you the best as that is an amazing way to garden / grow and you sound like you can get there soon. Good growing !
not sure i would put anything under something like that. the only thing i do is put radishes and baby carrots under brocoli and cabbage because they are out before the brocoli blocks sun.
peppers and parsley would work, im pretty sure i know this from experience. ive always wanted to see dill and strawberries together
I try to do this in my garden but ya all an experiment it be a bit different anywhere too
My turnip and carrots are definately not getting along lol
Im trying a few things with corn this year
In my corn patch in areas I'm trying carrots
Beets
Beans
Basil
I like lettuce and carrots together
Peppers and tomatoes do well if you give the tomatoes enough room to begin with...the tomatoes can shade the pepper a bit
Im trying mallow okra and parsnip
I will get back to you with more....i harvest many weeds for herbal uses too or a trap crop
So i watch how they interact as well
Like my clover on the pathway is fine but it needs chopping back when my squash need some light
Lupin i have them in several gardens just pick off the seeds plant and sell them ;) they are great nitrogen fixers and attract pollinators but can spread by seed i never had a problem with the root spreading
failing upwards. nice.
do you guys get any rabbit pressure? I see your salanova right there in the open looking pretty unmolested. how do you keep the rabbits off of it?
Strangely, we don't. I think it's a combo of cats and dogs that keep the rabbits at bay. Same thing with deer. No deer, and no deer fencing.
@@notillgrowers Count your blessings! They're cleaning my romaine beds out!
I tried some inter-cropping for the first time in my garden this year and accidentally did some relay cropping! I dropped my beetroot seed packet! Thought I'd got them all up but ages after the mature beets and lettuce had been grown and picked, I saw this clump of beet seedlings so split them all out amongst the veg already there and they've been coming up stronger as I pick more mature veg out! It's a great idea and I will try to do it more next year! Thanks for your videos 🙂x
Do you have a 2-4 year crop rotation plan for each bed on the farm? How do you decide what goes where the next year?
I grow onions under my tomatoes and beans beside my corn
What zone are you growing in?? How do you deal with pests?
I never really saw this style before. Crop cover yes, but this is different, and very thought provoking for me.
I live in the Philippines. It's hot and tropical and lettuce grows tall not wide here. It bolts in the heat, even on floating raft Aquaponics with nice cool water on the roots all day.
However, why might be an idea is to hide the lettuce under the leaves of some beans or other bigger leafed plants. I'm a little scared that if sown amongst the big leaves of squash or pumpkin the small fragile lettuc may get muscled out of nutrients. Do you have any suggestions as to good partners for lettuce besides beans?
Many thanks
You would have to have some strong soil to be able to handle this. My poor soil would laugh at me if I tried this.
Yep. Utilizing smaller gardens to produce as much as possible. Nice to find your channel. ☮️ HTGDE.
I'm currently trying to figure out planting succession groups into 2 seasons for a half year crop rotation. Spring & Summer seasons and fall/winter seasons would have different things growing, but the seasonal rotations would stay the same for those beds. Instead of a 4 year crop rotation, I'm trying to figure out a constant planting schedule using inter-cropping for what would be a 1 year crop rotation. Essentially, you could plant the same few things every year and maintain soil fertility. Thank-you for engaging my brain, Farmer Jesse. I love learning.
I'm thinking if doing a sweet corn and 2 lettuce rows on a 30" bed.
We interplant herbs and flowers with each veggie. Tomatoes with basil, nasturtiums, and carrots. Rainbow chard with thyme. Kale with nasturtiums and cucumbers. Broccoli with beans and radish. Sweet alyssum with onions. Head lettuce, snow peas, tomatoes, marigolds, spinach, and carrots (all in one bed!). Lettuce and lemon balm. Zucchini and clover (cover crops will come at the end of the season to overwinter). Corn, beans squash, sunflower, and tobacco. I'm curious about planting directly mowed or crimped cover crop successes. Singing frogs farm in Santa Rosa, CA does a good job of always keeping the soil covered and plant roots in the ground. Daniel Mays @ Frith Farm doing some awesome stuff, too.
Amazing work. What a math strategy Calender deal. Thanks for sharing. Good night your lettaces look beautiful
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Aaa the best method. I think i was doing it alone. This is what im doing. Thank you for saying i eint wrong
Here in CO.. I find less pest pressure on brocolli and brassicas planted very early.. Mind you I'm not market gardening, just making the most of my home garden. Radish or lettuce and Brocolli transplants in under some cover in late feb/March.. Then once the soil is warm an interplanting of Bush green beans under the broccoli..once brocolli is harvested beans and hopping! Works great here!
I think Charles Dowding sows head fennel bulbs in between maturing lettuce !!! I did that this year...lettuce maturing to almost seeding and fennel slowly taking off. I did sweet corn this year with broad beans and mangetout. I tried celeriac bulbs with lettuce and garden peas but who knows...my tomato trial with asparagus, basil, bunching onions, thyme, celery stalk, chillies, peppers and aubergines is sort of oooookkkkkkkkkkk but tomato blight struck so early here plus an underlying issue was that they were not trellised during the rain...boooo hoooo....plus a draught was forecast but lots of rain instead (wow or what ??). By the way, I have a permanent asparagus bed where I did salvage some tomato off shoots from the other bed before they died...I transplanted those particular suckers / side shoots in between the asparagus plants in their respective rows...like I said tomato blight took the others down big time but the ones interplanted with the permanent asparagus seem to be fine. All out doors !!
Is there away to get more out of a row. Like lettuce cuts on one side carrots down the middle and somthing on the other side?
I learned from my Italian neighbours, but have kicked it up a notch... I’m in Canada, colder, so I sow onion sets early mid-April across the whole bed. Them mid-late May remove some as green onions and plant tomatoes at the back (North side) of the bed to vine and climb, then peppers-eggplants (occasionally potatoes) down the middle, and in the spaces In between, beets chard, lettuce, celery, etc. By the time my onions fall in July, the other stuff grows up and takes over, works awesome. I only do it this much because of lack of space. Also I prune the eggplants-peepers to cut the understory leaves to allow more light onto stuff closer to the ground like lettuce,,,
In low country, SC: Seeding cilantro, parsley underneath all fall/winter/spring crops, miners spinach underneath tall brassicas. Trellising bitter melon, snake gourd and malabar spinach over the greens in mid summer. Seeding dill under tomatoes to use blooms/seeds for pickling tomatoes. Also mid summer, sunflowers and amaranth underseeded with buckwheat on the west edge to shade from afternoon sun; native small peanuts, buckwheat, flax, borage and sweet potatoes in wood chips in paths between beds - I walk on them - they do not seem to care. Taro root and echinacea in rain-drain water ways.
Relay cropping should be supported with companion planting otherwise it will fail
Do you ever get mosaic virus and if you did what would you do? I just started my in ground garden but I've grown in containers and one problem we've had is our beans getting mosaic I even bought mosaic resistant bean and still got it,so I end up throwing my expensive mix in the trash which get expensive so I'm trying to decide if I should even plant beans in ground garden b cuz I cant throw my yard away like I can the potting mix please please please answer this question for me it seems to be a question no one else has answered. Thank you
Hello. New subscriber. I like how you do things. Let me just say our neighbors are Amish have have adapted some of our techniques (which are your techniques as well 😊)
We never ever stop learning.
I have wanted to try planting garlic with tomatoes in the fall, then plant new tomatoes in the spring. Tomatoes would be about 2/3 grown now, and the garlic would be ready also. Amend with 2 inches of compost around the almost done producing tomatoes in the fall, then plant garlic. What do you think?
wonderful teaching. Thank you for the information. In my garden, I grow for myself neighbors and importantly the food bank. I will follow your successful experiments.
Sugar snap and snow peas with spinach…. Great yield this year……
Great idea that I tried this year. I had a 50' x 4' bed (running east to west) that I transplanted 50 tomatoes in 2 rows spaced 1' from both edges, 2' apart, with three leads on 1 June after our last frost on 30 May here in Michigan (zone 6a...our latest frost that I remember us ever having). Two weeks later, down the middle (2' on centre of bed), I planted Turmeric (stated inside and 1' tall), staggered 1' from centre of the tomatoes. Then 6" from the edges on one side, I planted Icicle Radishes (south side) and on the other side I planted Evergreen Scallion (north side) in July. I harvested the radishes first in late August. I did the final harvested the tomatoes in September and removed them. Then we covered the bed, along with two other beds, with a single 55' tunnel. I harvested the Turmeric in late October and the Scallions are still in the bed, coming out whenever I need them for market. I am about ready to transplant 3 types of radishes, 3 types of turnips, and 3 types of beets into that bed here in a week or so. I am hoping that this will all be ready to come out in April sometime. I'll be putting Provider, Haricot, and Dragon Tongue to harvest next, but I think that I would be best to not plant them until I harvest the root crops out of concern that I would disturb the bean seeds to much by pulling the root crops during harvest. Any thoughts?
I did an inter-crop of zucchini with multi sown beets between each and a row of spinach along the two edges of the bed. When the spinach was close to last harvest I did a sow of turnips between them. Having it along the edge of the bed gives a lot of time for them to grow before the zucchini overtakes.
I also did an inter-crop of beet greens under cabbage and one under kale, hasn't worked quite as well. I should have DS the beet greens earlier then done the transplants for kale/cabbage after.
Just the other day tried out hakurei transplants under nearly ready bok choy. The spacing I use works out so they can inter plant to the correct spacing, we'll see how they turn out in the end.
Love the guineas in the background!
Cabbages in between broad beans and lamb lettuce underneath cabbages worked well.
Hey...random question. Do you like Spring-Summer farming or Autumn-Winter? Keep those videos coming!
You're more of crop coordinator than a market gardener
Haha! Crop coordinator. Has a ring to it
You are the best advisor thank you. I can’t wait to summer.
I planted like this due to extra plants from green house would be thrown away. Sometimes they would not grow until the other crop was harvested. Then it would do great.
How do you address amendments in a system like this? Very cool ideas!
Hey boss, how do you deal with the shade adapted onions coming up in the heavy shade of zucchini? Once zucchini are cut out - do they go into photosynthetic shock/stress? thx
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What do you mean by "I'll cut these out"? Thank!
Seems like that would not be as good for a paper pot transplanter?
At what distance you transplant the melons ?
Thanks
I’ve messed around with this a bit. It’s great when you find a good combination, but the extra labor involved in picking has to be taken into consideration too. I imagine this would be less of a problem for peasants or tribesman with kids around the plot to offer free labor.
Thanks chief 😁🌱💚🙏✨
potato and lettuce is working very very well!,Cut and come again lettuce is my next trial.
Thank you so much for sharing your enter planting ideas it helps me figure out my up coming seasons.
Interesting idea. Thanks for experimenting with stuff. Learning from/with you is exciting because of your experimentation. Good job.