This video is about growing your vegetables closer together for amazing results! I like to call it… Crowd Growing… 🙂
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VIDEO: Crowd Growing Your Vegetables For Awesome Results!
This video is about growing your vegetables closer together for amazing results! I like to call it… Crowd Growing… 🙂
Very educative, self sufficient me
Ok I learnt about CROWD GROWING which is not COMPANION GROWING. Thanks!
Mark, I know you are still growing crops together, especially smaller ones under the large ones, where possible. Are you still doing some crowd growing?
(Just saw this video for the first time). So many say, ‘Don’t plant tomatoes near potatoes!’ They even say, ‘Don’t plant tomatoes next year where you planted potatoes this year’! Or vise-versa. So glad to see your tomatoes and potatoes close by each other. ANOTHER great video! Your garden is beautiful….. We are expanding our garden this year due to the virus. 🙂
Love the haircut. Just like mine.
Can you crowd grow anything
G'Day Mark. I came across t his older video while looking at companion planting. I think your idea of crowd gardening makes sense when you have fertile soil and lots of water. Look at the Amazon with plants growing all over and forming layers of growth. Look at the desert, where plants space themselves out to allow enough water and nutrients for each plant. We have examples all through nature of hillside of poppies, or grasses, etc. Nature doesn't space plants out in rows with three inches of soil between plants. LOL. I must say your garden has grown quite a bit in 5 years. It is fun to see what it did look like and how it looks now. Cheers!
I tried it this year! I also hate thinning out plants, or not using my space to the full…feels like such a waste. Unfortunately it did not work for me. Everything grew super slow and the plants all stayed tiny and never grew to maturity. I planted so much, waited forever, and barely had anything to show for it.
Love it what about crowd growing in a container
Hi Mark from South Coast NSW. As a new gardener this method really interests me. how has it worked out long term?
So awesome!
Beautiful! I wanted to see if this could be done because I wanted to plant all of my vegetables but don't have as much room as recommended and I'm also doing my garden in a raised bed, so far they are doing well, I love your garden♡
This method does not work for beetroot, none of my beets grow any root. Thanks mate that will be only greens this year. How did you even get a harvest without thinning?
Help. I improvised using tomato cages for my cucumbers and they're out of control. I went on vacation for a week and came back to 10 unruly cucumber plants growing every which way. I wish I could take a picture and show you.
Also my icebox sugar baby watermelons (some trellised some not) are over-taking my garden! How do I trellis plants that have already started growing too big? They're vining their way across the ground thru my peppers and tomatoes! I'm in need of some serious advice!
I’ve done this by accident with my sweet corn, cucumbers, grapes and squash. Other side of garden I have carrots and pumpkins. Surprisingly they have done extremely well. Just harvested my first 2 cucumbers yesterday 🙂
Great tips thanks
I like to halve the space between my veggies too. You must have a lot of mouths to feed ha ha. Liked and subbed.
Can you do this with kohlrabi?
i think this is a wonderful idea! alot of seed packets usually say to seperate at sprouting to thin out but putting them closer together, you'd think, makes them grow better simply because bee's can pollinate the flowers and they can cross pollinate easier! Did you notice they grew faster than if you'd thinned them out?
Great way to pack it in a small space. I am going to try this indoors and see how it goes : )
The only risk from this method I find is disease will spread like wildfire if you have too much of a monoculture packed in. But on disease resistant crops I'm all in!
Thank you so much for sharing! It gives me great ideas for growing my veggies!
So interesting to see how the garden has changed in the newer videos. Very inspiring. Cheers Mark.
I just did this with some black eye pea plants. They are looking better than any I’ve grown so far. Same with a clump of pumpkin plants.
I do this out of laziness haha. Tbh I over crowd beds and just keep everything watered and have rough bamboo sectioning and everything just grows. The only issue I ever had was with broccoli so I dumped that into a big tub