Intercropping, also known as interplanting, is an excellent method to squeeze in more harvests in the same space. If you have limited growing space this is especially important and exciting. This video shows you what I am currently intercropping, different types of interplanting as well as the top interplanting tips to help you grow more delicious food. The possibilities are endless and I hope this video serves as a useful and inspiring introduction to this awesome method of growing food.
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My red and white current bushes have recently been harvested, mostly by the birds. We shared them and did get a pretty good crop considering I have moved to a new allotment site. The bushes were dug up and replanted last november into a bed nourished with manure from the organic farm that owns the site. I had some spare cucumber plants and some parsley so I planted them beneath the bushes. They are scrambling up the bushes like it is a climbing frame and producing cucumbers. Im not sure how the fruit bushes will do next year but I ran out of climbing supports and thought, "why not give it a try?" I am liking this idea of intuitive gardening and experimenting, it is almost like a fluid less contrived form of art. Throwing paint on to the paper and work with how it evolves into something beautifull.
Hello! Thanks for this video, super helpful. Wanted to ask what you think of intercropping in an asperagus bed. My understanding has been that asperagus doesn't like root competition, and so I've never grown anything else in the bed, even over winter when the asperagus is dormant. But your video got me thinking whether it might be ok to tuck some small plants in between the asperagus clumps, and in the plot when the plants are dormant. Do you have experience with that? Thank you!
Bear in mind that some crops do not do well together whereas other plants benefit from being put together
Huw. I love your videos and great to see a fellow Welshman getting so much profile. Question please …. flea beetles were mentioned as having attacked your radish. Do you know of a cure / deterrent for them?. Thanks Paul
can you intercrop carrots and parsnip?
Cilantro (I think you call it coriander?) And peas work very well together. So do green onion and chard. Huw, in your new book you explain how to propagate berry bushes, but I don't understand the cut you make at the top of the cutting. Could you please demonstrate this in a video?? Thank you!
Very nice video. Thanks for posting.
Great informative video. Even more fun if you drink a shot every time he says intercropping.
Lots of great information, thank you. It brings to mind the three sisters, corn, climbing beans and squash. Its intercropping, food forest and symbiotic all in one.
Broad beans with lentils
In the area I'm growing in we have worms that can damage lettuces and brassicas. So last year I planted onion throughout and no more worms. I also tried garlic around my rose bushes and they did great where as in other years garlic failed and roses had disease. 🙂
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Please add subtitles to your video
Thanks for the video!
Thank you bro for tips
I filled a bed with onions and harvested 1/2 of them a little early for use and then planted all my sweet potato slips in the gap. The sweet potatoes started filling in and covering the onion bulb area until it was time to harvest the onions and give the bed over to the sweet potato vines. It worked wonderfully!
You have a good handle on intercropping. I learned the process from OYR. One Yard Revolution. His looks a lot messier than yours however he is very skilled at intercropping and succession planting etc. Worth checking it out.
Bloody good video Huw!Covering the whole subject at my (beginner) level. You are rapidly becoming my "go-to" Garden resource, even if I'm in The French Pyrenees.
All I see in these types of video's are enormous gardens with so much food it could well be for selling or something. But what if you are alone and/or have very small garden space (or non at all)? How can one person grow just enough of everything? Or is it not worth the trouble in that case?
My poor planning, plus plant volunteers, forces me to “intercrop” my small garden. I’m not going to destroy a desirable plant that wants to grow.
Hi Huw, while I am waiting to grow my fruit and vegetables. I buy as much as I can organic product's. Melons and some other products if they are not organic is it OK to put them in my compost heap? I am hoping to have 3 compost piles ,so I have asked my family to give me fruit and vegetables scraps as this year I am expanding my growing plant's, so I'll need a lot more compost. Do I need to have organic seeds to be fully organic? I am not if my seeds are organic.. Thanks..
Does intercroping not interfere with crop rotation? Or atleast make it more difficult to rest a bed for more than one year if it contains multiple plant groups?
I grew oca around the bottom of my runner beans last year, and got a bumper yield of each.
Hi Huw, do you ever have any issues when closely interplanting? I've always wondered if interplanting crops closely would reduce size/yield/flavour etc due to each crop having to fight for the nutrients in the same space
Thanks
Your intro "Hello, and welcome back to the garden . . . " is great!
Really!
I'm all "Aw, thanks Huw. Glad to be here."