This Gardening Method Changed My Life
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- Опубликовано: 18 май 2021
- High intensity gardening changed my life. What is it, how did it come about, and what does it do for the garden? All these questions and more we answered in this extra-long episode intended to inspire and encourage you to try this amazing method.
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Not only are you providing 200+ lbs of veggies in your garden, you are growing millions of pounds all over the world due to your videos. Watched so many of your videos winter/spring/summer of 19/20 and my high intensity garden was gorgeous. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. I certainly share your excitement and passion for growing big or going home
Here here! 🌞🙏🫂
2nd.
3rd.
Onward to Beartaria!
Last year, I grew zucchini vertically at the spacing Luke described. I pruned all leaves that were below the flowers. By mid-summer, I had what looked like little zucchini trees and had room to plant stuff under the zucchini.
May I ask what did you plant under the Zucchini trees?
@@petecilione4166 Luke went over this video but I forgot to write down the title, but the format said:
*Beans (Midnight Black turtle Beans in MI)
*Peppers 2x at August puts 3rd flushes at October = 30 to 40 peppers from just 1 bell pepper. He did it with all different colors.
*Zuchinni grows really fast. 35 peppers in just 1 year.
*Leafy Herbs i.e. mint, basil, oregano, sage, thyme, parseley we need to clip flowers to stop the growth.
*Cucumbers
You can look for the video.
The next video talked about growing different items too.
*Mint
*Chives
*Oregano
*Dill
*Strawberries
*Raspberries
*Camomile tea
All of which I would love to get it started.
@@kristinatidwell6563 thank you. I certainly appreciate it.
I started doing the same thing. Incredible
Yes! I did that too and funny you call them zuchinni trees, that's what I called mine. An Amish guy came by, in his buggy and I heard him say, what the ****. I was laughing so hard and still do, every time I remember that.
I like it that you are a certified Master Gardener and yet are able to think differently rather than simply regurgitate what you were taught.
If the Master Gardener program where he is is much like the one where I live, it's a bunch of people who like sitting around talking rather than actually trying to go do anything. Nothing against them, but I have never seen so many "gardeners" complain about everything to do with gardening.
I couldn't agree more. I see too many "Master Gardeners" with a (seemingly) authoritarian attitude, chipped shoulders, and can't be taught anything new. Pretty sad, really, and makes me wonder if the certification program itself isn't due for a major upgrade. There's just something wrong with this picture.
I have gardenedfor 40 years. I always for some reason plated like 3 times more in an area then others. I began hearing my friends comment that I had hardly any weeds or other problems they had. My reasoning was I dont like to waste space anywhere. I have harvested 50 quarts of green beans from a 2x16 space. My husband questioned the potatoes planting this year. Since his biggest hobbie as well, I said you can do whatever you like hon. He came back within an hour and said he decided they were fine as he didn't want to use up more space for them.
Our harvest is larger because of it. Weeds are controlled by it.
The only downfall is disease. One plant gets it and you lose many more. Just a risk. I would not garden any other way. I have no idea why I ever planted this way to start with except I may be somewhat of a rebel lol
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I like the way you plant your garden
I was thinking about how there will be less air circulation around plants because of how close they will be to one another. That could cause disease. Also, won't less water reach the soil when it rains? I suppose that would be balanced out by how the shaded soil loses so much less water to evaporation.
During WWII, they were called Victory Gardens. The idea that civilians in the US would be self-sufficient so that the results of large ag could be sent to the troops overseas.
Correct!
My grandmother had a victory garden. I have pictures of her in the garden
My Granpap started his Victory Garden during WWII then kept it going until he passed away at 98yrs! I was inspired to Garden at 7yrs and some of my best childhood memories were spent with my Grandparents gardening and canning.
Nowadays they seem to want the opposite.
@@patrickmcgraw3435 Because those people are traitors and have become entangled with nations who are our enemies and do not want to see America succeed
Sounds like me , when someone tells me that I can’t do something or not supposed to do my garden a certain way , I’m like watch me and watch it be fantastic.😂😂
Yes!! I do the same hahaha. People are all like, hay you cant grow tomatoes here without protecting them from rain! And, you shouldnt prune pepper plants! EUHM my huge harvest of tomatoes and I would like to disagree! (nd the peppers I made a different mistake on so they failed anyway hahahaha)
By far my favorite food growing channel. I've learned a lot over the years watching your channel. No real question just really appreciate your work it's a lot to put into this channels.
And don't forget awesome seeds.
@@markwalker9107 very true now stop talking to yourself 🤣 didn't realize that I was commenting form my personal account on here. Haven't quite got that all figured out.
@@theoverworkedgardener5648 lol been there done that, but your channel is way better than mine with 2 videos up lol
@@heavymetalbassist5 just keep on going at it. Everything gets better . Like everything it takes some time. I still have tons of learning and work to be done. I'm going to go check out your channel
Same here! Fav food growing channel!
I always thought I was stingy with my garden spacing. I never knew I was doing high intensity gardening/spacing until I started watching Luke.
If people don’t know.IT’S GARDENING SEASON. The best time of the year.
I planted red and green pepper plants with English thyme in a large tub pot today. This is a first for me, because I can no longer get down even to a raised bed and lack the $ to build raised beds up 3-4 feet and fill them with soil. I figure the peppers will shade the thyme. Guess I'll find out.
Truth drop: “..because we don’t challenge the status quo”!
I like your thinking Luke!😺🙌✨
i had some extra packets of seeds this year after doing my starting and just threw them into my "catchall" garden to see what would happen, i have never harvested so much lettuce in my life, i came back from a week of vacation and it looks like a jungle of deliciousness
Yeah I loved Luke's videos from when he did that! I did the same thing with a bunch of radish, lettuce, and cilantro seeds and I have a patch of deliciousness now in a fallow area, and the ones I didn't pick are starting to bloom and feed the bees.
Wonderful. The joy of gardening is timeless. I wish the best tasting and healthiest vegetables for you and your family
Omg I have a catch all garden bed too!!!!! That bed is doing the best out of all of my beds!
Luke actually starts talking about his cool gardening method and how he arrived at it at 7:26.
Yes Good information but he repeats himself some many times do a little background and get to the point.
@@billbsnapshot220 Yes. I have made the point that he rambles and repeats himself before but he hasn't changed. If anything he has become worse over the years. It really isn't a matter of style, but communication effectiveness. I wonder how many people try his videos but just tune out after 5 to 10 minutes because he just hasn't gotten to the point yet. It is too bad because he has great information and a nice style.
@@BSGSV Yes very nice guy knows his stuff well. I have to fast forward a lot. I purchased many seeds from him this year and everything is growing well.
Also, you shouldn't plant things like lettuce and radish in dedicated beds imo. Just plant them in the beds meant for larger crops that reach full size later in the season, and harvest the small, fast growing, early season crops as the season progresses to make way for the growth of the bigger crops. For example, what you could try is to haveyour zucchini plants 2 ft apart, but also have a few pea plants, and hundreds of radish and lettuce plants in between those zucchinis that you can pull out over the next month or so to make way for the zucchini's growth. The radishes are closest to the zucchini since they'll be the ones that can be harvested first, lettuce are a bit further and can probably hang out under the edges of the zucchini leaves as it grows, and the peas are closest to the midpoint between the zucchinis since they're the tallest plants. The radishes need to be harvested after about a month anyways, so not like they'll go to waste, the lettuce, even if they're cut-and-come-again aren't going to be doing that well in the full sun of mid-summer anyways, so they'll probably be okay under the leaves, and if they stop growing and you just harvest them, no big deal, just sow some more lettuce seeds under the zucchini leaves, and by the time the next crop of lettuces sprout, the zucchini will be done producing and can be cut back.
Wow. ...so practical and efficient.
Radishes are beneficial companions to zucchini anyway. They help deter pests.
@@DawaLhamo As a revision to this though, I've been finding that the zucchini can sometimes grow too quickly and smother the radishes before they're ready to harvest. So maybe a smaller slower to harvest plant to intercrop with, such as peppers, would work better. Or sow the seeds for radish, lettuce, etc a few weeks before you plant the zucchini, ex plant the zucchini 2 weeks after your last frost date, and sow the seeds of radish and lettuce 2-4 weeks before your last frost date.
As somebody who lives on a farm I really never thought about it. But when I take a look at my father-in-law driving these big pieces of machinery they need so much space in order to be able to drive through the rows of the plants so that they don't damage them so maybe that's also where spacing has come from.
I usually use How to Grow More Vegetables by John Jeavons for suggestions on spacing. It's a modified French intensive method
I am trying this this year mostly because I don’t have a garden so I am growing everything in large pots!!
This ought to work great! Just be sure to keep it watered, because any size pot will dry out faster than in ground growing.
@@doloresreynolds8145 Thanks! Will do!
I’ve been growing in pots (20-30 cm diameter) on my balcony for a couple of years now, and the only thing I’ve found that needs to sit alone in a 30 cm pot is tomato (or rather: anything I’ve tried to plant around tomatoes has suffered because the tomato takes it all). Sunflowers, chards, herbs, calendula, sugarsnaps, nasturtiums, lettuce, mustards, chili, nemophila, dianthus, sweetpeas, chives and leafy celery are happy to share. The jury is still out on squash, because I’m uncertain whether it was spacing, a really cold summer or insufficient light that was the problem.
I generally oversow and feel bad about thinning out seedlings unless they are truly sick or stunted, so I just end up trying to fit everything I have into the pots and boxes, and it has worked ok. Over time I learn which things want more space, nutrition or sunlight by seeing which ones do well and which ones look like they’re struggling. My balcony only has afternoon sun, but it sets after ten at night in the summer, so I set the plants who like full sun along the railing and the partial shade ones further in.
I probably have much punier plants and yields than I would have in a garden, but I do get fresh herbs and some veg and greens throughout the summer. And a wonderful outdoor space to hang out in.
@@kimzachris5340 Awesome!! Gives me hope haha!
Very well presented. 👍
Hey hey sweetie, your my go to guy because your passion for gardening is phenomenal and inspiring. I’ve been watching your videos for a while now and this year I added five more 4’x8’ beds to grow and can more food for my family! Thank you for always being so excited about gardening, you inspire this 67 year old Nana to keep challenging myself to grow bigger than last year! 👩🌾👵🏻
I have really enjoyed your channel for years and your spacing techniques, especially growing tomatoes up poles, were game changers. I live in town with a small lot and have several fenced in raised beds (so my dogs don't "help") and have learned to grow more than people with larger yards using the techniques you have taught :) thanks for sharing!
I'm glad to hear this. This year I am really increasing the amount of plants closer together in my garden, simply because I grew so much from seed, and wanted to plant everything.
Haha! Same here I grew about 3 dozen peppers from seeds of last year's harvest and I'm worried where in my veggie garden can I all plant them but thanks to this info I'll try to plant them closer together than what's recommended and see what happens! :)
This is the first time my family and I have attempted to start a garden of our own. We binge watch a lot of videos and your channel has really helped ! Thanks a bunch!
Same
Definitely check out Charles Dowding as well, if you haven't already. He's brilliant.
For a few years I've pushed spacing closer and closer, but I still hesitated with certain plants or going "too close." Your videos gave me confidence and the results last year were great. I'm stoked for the yield this year! I have a small-ish garden, but I'll be able to feed my family and still give away tons of great produce to my friends and neighbors, which makes me very happy. Good stuff, Luke.
My beds were planned with the “zero crawling” method. Lol. Every thing is an arms length away.
I started watching recently, and am binging the old episodes like Luke mentioned at the start of the video. Thanks for being so sincere, you can feel the love you have for your plants and your family through every video. I did my first high intensity planting of some kale and spinach this spring and was surprised by just how much it produced with 1/2 the spacing. Definitely more than 2x what I had the year before with 'normal' spacing. I'm now able to actually cut into my grocery budget and share any extras with friends and family!
It would be great if you included high intensity spacing recommendations on your seed packets, Luke.
He said he does
Yes, totally! I can't wait to see my garden later this season when the successions I've been planting for more continuous harvest are all nearing maturity. Edited: you can also get even more plants by using a triangle planting method. 18 plants then turns into 24.
Doing high intensity gardening in my 15x18 ft garden this year. I was able to fit so much in my garden! Before I planted my seedlings I mapped out my garden on graphing paper to get a idea where everything will go. So glad I sketched it out few times before planting day!
Excellent video! My parents and grandparents always had a garden and it was a lot of work. I never thought to question plant spacing because it was always done the old way. I’m excited to grow in my first raised bed garden this year (with no back braking weeding)! Thanks for all you do and share 👏👏👏♥️
I like the way you think! I always thought that spacing plants like the packet says was a waste of space. Lol. 😁
Thank you for this! I've been doing high intensity planting for about 3 yrs. Everyone said don't do it! But my gardens have been doing well. I'm glad to see I do know what I'm doing after all 💚
I learned this method from you several years ago, and yes - it's a total game-changer! Between that, intercropping and not wasting any space, and planting a winter garden, I feed us (and others) year-round. But the main thing was high-intensity gardening.
The longer the better with your videos, and the shorter, the better, with the distance between plants! THANK YOU.
It might seem like an exaggeration, but you’ve had a hand in the changing of my life and my mindset. You’ve helped me immensely over the last couple of years, when I decided to get serious about gardening. I never knew I’d one day care so much about gardening or that it would bring me so much comfort and peace. So, thank you so much. I’ve learned everything from you. And even though I make mistakes every single year, I’m learning new things every single day, as well.
Thank you so much for that!
I stopped by the comments to say exactly this. Thank you, Luke!
@@MIgardener Same here man. I went from never thinking I'd be interested in something like this to building out 2000 square feet of garden in my backyard and doing high intensity gardening in all of it. It is awesome.
I'm glad you discovered this. I have been growing like this for years. Nature dictates when a plant goes to seed that the majority fall near the Mother plant. It makes natural sense for plants to grow close together.
I'm in central Michigan and love your recommendations, I have a small garden with no outside water. I drag a hose from inside my home to water my plants. I am doing well with 24 tomatoes in a 4x25 foot space using single stem on the indeterminate 18-24" apart using the Dice pattern and more half are determinate 3ft tall plants (lots can fit). I have tons tomatoes until Sept.
A plumber should easily be able to install an outside tap for you if you know where your water pipes are
Yet another champion for digging (literally) for the Real Truth of the subject and completely debunking the "rules".....Bravo!!👏 Your my new gardening hero!!🤩
You are the HIGH DENSITY KING! I wouldn't be gardening again at this point in my life with a bad back without raised beds and high density gardening with the space I am limited to! Been watching you about 4 years now! Thank you for all you do and easy to understand tips. ❤
I am experimenting planting zucchini in a 3 gallon pot. I will pick to 2 zucchinis about a foot long in two days or so. I also planted two cucumber plants on the 3gal pot. Picked a cucumber yesterday, and another two will be ready in a few days. Hope my eggplant do will also. Experience is more better than advise. The only trick is water more often.
"My garden is my oasis of happiness". Now THERE'S a t-shirt!
I'm gardening for the first time this year and I'm so glad I saw this video so early in the season! Subscribed! 👍🏻🥒
I am planting sweet potatoes for the first time and I didn’t worry about spacing. I got 27 slips from one potato and they are all in my 4ft square raised bed. I plant all my things this way anymore. I don’t have a lot of space so I grow all I can in the spaces I have
I've been following Migardener for 3 years now and although I may get discouraged by his success occasionally, im glad to see that im having similar results this year, in fact my radishes are actually bigger than his 🤪 love ya Luke!
Nice 👍
Love this channel and the great advice and tips.
This is the sort of quality videos I enjoy, and why I love your channel so much. Thank you for your commitment to helping the gardening community at large Luke. I know you said you don’t put this sort of information out to sell anything to us, but if I’m being honest I’d LOVE to see a “High Intensity Gardening” book produced by you, both with the steps to move towards increasing our food growth via the process you described, but also with an appendix of things you’ve done for specific plants, and the things you’ve encountered and had to adjust for while doing it. I’d buy that in a heart beat!
Ditto!
Yes! First time gardening in YEARS and we're going full on square foot gardening, companion and succession planting. our 200sqft is packed and doin fine!
Been following ur advice for over a year now and i live in the uk but i take wot applies to me from ur vids and i do plant abit closer than advised on packets and have amazing results 👍🏻
We changed the spacing on our packets for high intensity spacing.
Hi Luke, thanks so much for so many great tutorials. I learn something every time I watch them!
I am trying square foot gardening this year which I think is similar to your high intensity gardening. I love the idea of less watering and less weeding.
Luke, I planted your Dragon Tongue beans and I have to say THEY ARE AMAZING. INCREDIBLY EARLY PRODUCING BUT ALSO BEAUTIFUL LARGE AND PLENTIFUL. I bought 1 pack and I'm picking every other day.
THANKS
I loved the video, and I can’t wait to push my lettuce even close together! But I want to push back on the idea that in the 19th and 20th centuries people gardened based on strict instructions and spacing was accepted as dogma. People have always experimented, they have always broken rules and made their own rules. When it comes to gardening I think people learn from the plants as much as they learn from other people.
Every year your garden teaches you something new
I only had an in ground garden last year, but added 2 raised beds this year. One for strawberries and one for a myriad of other plants to experiment with. After watching you all last year, this year I am changing the spacing of my in ground garden and I have more than double the amount of tomato plants in the same amount of space I used last year. I also was able to add 8 tomatillo plants this year. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, it really does make a difference to so many people.
Thank you so much for breaking this all down. I have watched a bunch of your videos old and new, and this video really clears up a bunch of questions I had. God bless, keep up the awesome work!
Migardener You rock it! I love your topics and the information you put out there for people to be able to sustain themselves and their gardens. Keep up the great work , very inspirational! Many blessing to you!
Thank you for all of this. I’ve helped my neighbors who have started gardening by my own knowledge from your videos (and Jess from root and refuge), building a community is everything and seeing my friends and family succeed is so rewarding. My potatoes have gone crazy in this past week with sulfur. God Bless Luke.
Aww Luke! Thanks for this heartfelt video. You have been supper influential. Growing seeds for the very first time this year and growing tomatoes just as you recommend! Can’t wait
I would like your thoughts on square foot gardening
It's great to see someone else who believes in testing the "rules" of gardening. I've done intensive planting for years and never cease to be amazed by the amount that comes out of the harvest.
Love your videos Luke, and cant wait to try your high intensity gardening practises & preparing core gardening beds when I do my winter planting very soon. Living in northern Victoria in Australia might have its challanges for water conservation come spring and summer, but will let you know how we go! Cheers
I have been doing this without even realizing it and it does work! Thanks Luke for the video to open our eyes to successful, plentiful gardens!
God bless you for sharing this life changing advice. You are a generous young man to be so passionate to help others have better food at a much lower price. And so rewarding to see such a wonderful harvest!
Thank you for the great advise,its true we don't question what we have always done or were told to do, you have given me food for thought and I'm going to put it to the test.
Thanks for this info. I was just re-reading your book tonight and planning to plant things more closely this year.
Would love to hear more about the differences between high intensity spacing and the square foot gardening method!
Yes!!
They're basically the same thing. I just veer off the "strict" rules of SFG, use common sense, giving tons of nutritional support for growing plants... interplant... experiment and push the limits. It works!
Thankyou for all of this useful information!!!! This is my first year starting all of my vegetables from seed and it’s going wonderful so far with the help of all the RUclips gardeners lol. I’m doing this garden mostly for my grandparents and I believe they greatly appreciate it. Again thanks so much for all the inspiration and information to keep my garden healthy and happy!🙌
I've learned a lot from this channel, and what's more, it's information that can be put into practice. You keep making videos Luke, I'll keep watching them.
Love the passion behind this message! It can be applied to everything life right now as well...question everything you are being told to believe, these days especially! As for gardening, I am on my 3rd year growing seriously and have 15 raised beds. Seed saving will be a huge focus this year as well. I pushed my space limits to 3 times as much and this video made me feel a lot better about that choice lol. I have, for example, 10 heirloom tomato plants in 1 6' x 3' bed with lettuce as ground cover! I can't wait for a mid season update from you on how yours is doing!
A few years ago my tomatoes seedlings died, I had to start over, since I was late in the season I decided to plant them with only 3 sets of leaves and a foot of distance of each other, the result were amazing I had the best harvest at that time, since then I plant my tomatoes and peppers only a foot a part of each other and same size, usually my tomatoes reaches 10’-12’ tall and my peppers 2’-5’, with lots of production, the only down side is harvest takes more time due to spacing, I have to add, I don’t use raised beds, my garden is on the ground and I use the not dig method by Charles Downing
You should add high-intensity spacing instructions on the back of MI Gardener seed packets! That would be so handy, especially when trying new varieties!
Thank you so much for this! I grow food for my fam too so I don't like to experiment too much on my own but I have been wondering if I could space things closer. Nice to know it works I will def have to try this for my fall plantings! Your videos have already improved my garden so much this year! Thank you for sharing your gardening knowledge with us :)
One of your best videos ever! My experience matches yours, as we've continued to grow more and more in our small space. Thank you so much!
Love your channel!. I’ve been a Gardner for decades. And now I’m learning so much from you.
I do not rototill my vegetable garden. I hand dig it with a shovel to just lightly turn it over.A well tended garden space is like a blank artist canvas that I can create a beautiful edible painting on every year. ❤️
Luke, thank you for your passion and always sharing. I’ve never paid attention to what the labels say. I always wing it. But I have a whole new garden set up this year, so, thanks to you, I am going to push the limits.
Perfect information to find this morning! Planting my seedlings out this week. Thank you.
Love what you're doing! Love you too Luke! You are a blessing to us!
I absolutely adore this advice. I'll admit, I've often shrugged off recommended plant spacing, largely because I have limited space but big garden aspirations, but a part of me has always wondered if maybe I was screwing up my plants long-term by crowding the plants too much. I'm not only relieved, but excited to implement your advice in my garden.
Thanks for these videos! I started my first garden last year and they have been so helpful. I’d love to see a video on specifically cherry tomatoes in the future - I see a lot of varied opinions especially around pruning.
You have the best gardening channel on RUclips. Always very interesting and informative. I’m excited to see the results from my garden this year. I’m trying your Trifecta for the first time. I’ll be sure to let everyone know what happens. Best wishes to everyone growing their own food.
Thank you for the plant intensity advice. I have never grown anything before and I tried out your method with one short row of mixed lettuce and it works and they look so pretty! We can't wait to taste our very first home grown lettuce in a few weeks!
Appreciate the insight! It matches some of what I've experienced. I live in a forested environment, with two small gardens -- not limited by space, but rather what space has enough partial sun to grow anything interesting and can be protected from the voracious deer. I have had success mostly with small to medium-sized peppers (never bells!), green beans, peas, cold-climate / short-season tomatoes, and herbs in pots. Because of very limited space, I plant tall to short plants from north to south, with less than a foot between rows; and tight spacing from east to west (about a foot for tomatoes, 3" for beans and peas, and about 8" for peppers). I've also taken to growing 2 identical pepper plants from one seeding cell if they both look healthy (this does not work for tomatoes, however).
Between the shady environment and close spacing, I rarely have to water at all and can grow cool-weather plants much further into the summer. I am limited by the first frost date, but that is more about lack of intense sun than spacing.
You are absolutely full of wonderful knowledge i come here if i have any questions. Great Vid man
Great channel, bought the square foot gardening book 30 years ago to get started in raised beds.
It’s a great book!!!
Love this method! Thanks for showing it to me
Love the history lesson. I've been gardening for years and I never questioned spacing. I watched your video harvesting huge beets using high density spacing. I also recall harvesting your peppers from a high density bed. Amazing results. Thanks for thinking outside the box.
Rebel Luke. Challenging the seed pack spacing establishment 😎. Yeah, i've been growing in 5 gallon buckets on the back stoop for years & keep adding more & more to the pots each year. You had a video i watched last year mixing various veg & herbs together & that is really beneficial for bucket gardening. Thanks for sharing your experiences!
Thank you so much from West of Edmonton Alberta Canada. I just placed my first specialty order from the MIgardener seed store. I was a plesureful shopping experiance. I can't wait for them to get here. Our gaerden is doing great, and I've incorperated a number of the things that you teach on. Well done young man. One of my three thirty year old sons, Has a beautiful garden because of quality sites like yours. Keep it up and blessings to you and your lovely family.
Amazing thank you so much . I'm trying the ruth stout method this year and mixed in with this . I cant imagine what can be done .
I did exactly as you mentioned high intensity growing in my beds all the plants are growing like weeds minus the weeds lol I have been growing in beds for years but I do have to say they are doing much better this year thanks so much keep up with the videos I never miss one and always look forward to the next thanks again peace ☮️
I just started my first garden and have been watching a few of these videos, a few weeks ago when I started planting I was questioning the spacing as well! I decided to experiment with it and push the limits as well. So far so good but we'll see how it goes!
Thanks for sharing, die to lack of space I have been doing your method for a while now, just thought I'd been lucky!
You are so right about questioning things, but not Just in the garden, this applies to everything 😉
I’ve planted all my plants this year using your method. Thanks for the great info!
Thank you for this. I am a first year gardener and I am loving it, well.... except the critters that ate 3 marigolds and 2 tomato plants yesterday!!! With this great info, I will just plant a little "heavy" so I can share! Love your videos! Thank you!!
This is my first year growing a garden of my own and I was worried about the spacing in our beds, but this video has really made me feel better about everything. Thanks Luke!
Thanks Luke, I am new to your channel and have been binge watching all your videos, you have taught me so much in a short time..I feel like I can be a more successful gardener now that I know what I have been doing wrong...I look forward to more videos from you
Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden and knowledge with us! I’ve always been told I plant too closely, but I love pruning as my time to myself.
Hi! I’m a pretty new gardener and this season I’m growing some watermelons and I was wondering if you could do a vid about how to grow a watermelon in containers 😁
I believe CaliKim has a video on that if you want to go search. She does about 50% container gardening and I believe she does sugar babies every year.
@@melissasullivan1658 ok I’ll go check her out thank you!
People even grow watermelons on trellises. You have to put the melons in a sling. Pretty cool!
You might want to check out Christa's Garden, in addition to CaliKim. Christa's got great info on growing watermelons.
I would worry about watermelon drying out cause with grow bags everything needs alot more water as long as you stay on top of the watering there's no reason you couldn't grow watermelons.
I use your “complete growing guide” playlists as such a valuable resource Luke!! Thanks as always! ❤️ Kristy in Missouri 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Yes! I agree. I have been doing container gardening the last 3 years and placed the plants in 'my spacing' and they worked just fine!
Im doing this, this summer. Since my garlic n onions really have nothing up top I planted my tomatos n peppers between them. Put my cucumbers on one side to grow up a fence n my snap peas on the outside of the bed to also grow up a fence on the other side. I only have one raised bed 8' x 4' so, I have herbs on one end, easy to reach , and strawberries on the other end. We will see how it grows.
A tip. If you have an aphid problem? Try planting alliums. Chives, garlic, onions seem to repel them. Im moving some of my chives next to my roses this year, an experiment.
My spring crops are all high intensity planted and I’m excited to see how well my summer crops do when I get them in the ground. The amount of lettuce I’ve harvested this year alone is ridiculous.
I have to wonder if we are afraid of questioning out of fear… fear of failure… so what you have done is show us how it can be successful and then we become less fearful and for that I thank you!
I think we don't question out of laziness. Thanks Luke for making it easy or easier for us all!!
I know it’s an older video but I just recently discovered your channel! It’s amazing to find someone else who didn’t want to „play by the rules“ without questioning them first. Even in my first year of vegetable gardening I was not listening to the official spacing recommendations because the garden is small and every inch is needed! I thought the worst case would be that we‘d have more compost. But it worked really well and I even grew a watermelon in Austria last year! Paying attention to what you plant next to a plant is more important in my opinion.
It’s reassuring to hear from someone who knows what he’s talking about, that my thought process was/is right!
I’m a chronically ill and disabled mom of 2, so our garden has to be uncomplicated and easily accessible. Although it’s not big, I really love it and have always been someone who rather tests things out. We have a combination of a few fruit/nut trees, many different berry bushes, and multiple (high) raised beds so they’re wheelchair accessible.
Thank you Luke!!!! Looks like I need to plant more seeds in my garden ❤️
I truly appreciate your channel, honestly, rawness and above all, your amazing knowledge! Thanks for sharing it. I’d love to see a video covering the length of time for different vegetable ripeness. How long does it takes for tomatoes, peppers, squash, potatoes, etc to ripen or be ready to harvest for example. I’ve had tomatoes on vines for what feels like 2 months and not a hint of color haha help!