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. 😊
"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.
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'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.
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. 💚
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
Have you experimented with Relay Cropping for winter cover crops? This has been one of my Go To's. I broadcast seed into an active bed/plot which will come out of production upon first frost. This method is practical because it allows me to get the seeds germinating while the soil temps are still good. Works well in crops like kale and other crops with 12"+ spacing.
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
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.
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?
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.
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)
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'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 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 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,,,
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) .
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.
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.
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 !
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?
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.
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.
i inter plant the short stubby carrots among the tomatoe plants as it seems to deter bugs , but ya i been doing this for many years due to shortage of garden space
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
Jesse, have you seen Agroforestry Academy? They are doing cool things with trees in their market gardens. I am thinking of trying using some trees to cut down the sun intensity here in Florida based on what they are doing near Brazilia. Researching useful trees now, something more than black locust. I appreciate your videos. Enjoyable to watch and teaching me a lot.
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
Might not be appropriate for a market garden (mine is a suburban backyard 'victory garden' for two people) but I've been playing with green beans and tomatoes (indeterminate). They seem to work pretty good together. What zone are you? Regarding the calendar/intensive mapping perhaps it would be useful to make it an opensource group. I could see that bringing in more information faster but have no clue if it's something that could be handled 'off-season'. Thanks for the video!
I tried (because I saw somewhere it was ok) to plant my garlic & shallots with potatoes. They both got shaded out, (the shallots worse than the garlic) but feel like my timing could have been better. Would love to see how you do with different root crops.
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
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.
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.
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
"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).
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.
Love your hard work my brother!ceep up your entercroping . I am watching from Tanzania
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.
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. 💚
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.
Thank you so much for sharing your enter planting ideas it helps me figure out my up coming seasons.
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.
Wow, this takes gardening to a higher level for me! This is a great video. Thanks!
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.
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.
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?
Aaa the best method. I think i was doing it alone. This is what im doing. Thank you for saying i eint wrong
You are living in paradise. Being a farmer is the most great job ever. Patience, care,loving,dilligent, hardworking and happiness.
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
You are the best advisor thank you. I can’t wait to summer.
I love how you have planted the green onions with the lettuce heads.interesting video!
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.
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
Such a beautiful garden 💐
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
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.
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.
Wow, Hello my friend.. All the best to your channel and hope you have a wonderful day !
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!
Have you experimented with Relay Cropping for winter cover crops? This has been one of my Go To's. I broadcast seed into an active bed/plot which will come out of production upon first frost. This method is practical because it allows me to get the seeds germinating while the soil temps are still good. Works well in crops like kale and other crops with 12"+ spacing.
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
Amazing work. What a math strategy Calender deal. Thanks for sharing. Good night your lettaces look beautiful
Great videos! A question: there are some regularly-spaced "rocks" between the beds, about 3:00 in the vid. What's their purpose?
potato and lettuce is working very very well!,Cut and come again lettuce is my next trial.
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
Love the guineas in the background!
Interesting idea. Thanks for experimenting with stuff. Learning from/with you is exciting because of your experimentation. Good job.
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.
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?
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.
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)
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!
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'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 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 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,,,
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!
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.
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.
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 !
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
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.
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.
Turnips with Lettuce planted the same time work nicely together.
Very interesting. Thank you
Yep. Utilizing smaller gardens to produce as much as possible. Nice to find your channel. ☮️ HTGDE.
i inter plant the short stubby carrots among the tomatoe plants as it seems to deter bugs , but ya i been doing this for many years due to shortage of garden space
How do you address amendments in a system like this? Very cool ideas!
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'm planning to apply this
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?
Nice knife skills Jesse!
Haha, fun fact: I started this channel as a cooking channel years ago! Some of those vids are still up (and not very good)
Great help formy farming i save space. New frind here.
Love the channel
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
Love video 😊 Thanks
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
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 🤘
Thank you.
I'm thinking if doing a sweet corn and 2 lettuce rows on a 30" bed.
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?
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?
do you not use mustard seeds to fumergate the soil?
Where was this IDEA 70 years ago? Excellent gardening theories here!
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.
Thank you! Awesome video
At what distance you transplant the melons ?
Thanks
Thanks chief 😁🌱💚🙏✨
Hey...random question. Do you like Spring-Summer farming or Autumn-Winter? Keep those videos coming!
What zone are you growing in?? How do you deal with pests?
Bushbeans with Zucchini and Salad is a very good combination.
Plant potatoes and direct seed spinach between the rows. I did this on accident when a volunteer potato plant came up.
Cabbages in between broad beans and lamb lettuce underneath cabbages worked well.
Hi how long do green onions from transplants take to grow in summer? thanks!
Depending on transplant size and desired size usually about 4 weeks.
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 tried lettuce and carrots. Just cleared the lettuce. Carrots are doing great
Jesse, have you seen Agroforestry Academy? They are doing cool things with trees in their market gardens. I am thinking of trying using some trees to cut down the sun intensity here in Florida based on what they are doing near Brazilia. Researching useful trees now, something more than black locust.
I appreciate your videos. Enjoyable to watch and teaching me a lot.
No, cool though. I'll check it out - Thanks!
Potatos and sweat corn work great together
details? (when each is planted)
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
Can corn and peanuts or beans work in this intercrop way?
Did the zucchini mildew spread to the vegetables?
Might not be appropriate for a market garden (mine is a suburban backyard 'victory garden' for two people) but I've been playing with green beans and tomatoes (indeterminate). They seem to work pretty good together. What zone are you? Regarding the calendar/intensive mapping perhaps it would be useful to make it an opensource group. I could see that bringing in more information faster but have no clue if it's something that could be handled 'off-season'. Thanks for the video!
6b central ky
Excellent
I tried (because I saw somewhere it was ok) to plant my garlic & shallots with potatoes. They both got shaded out, (the shallots worse than the garlic) but feel like my timing could have been better. Would love to see how you do with different root crops.
More interplanting stuff to come, for sure.
What would you intercrop with garlic?
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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!
Can I intercrop with cabbages or pepper plants if so what crops thanks.
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
What do you mean by "I'll cut these out"? Thank!
👍👍Jesse onion breath! lol
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.