This video is all about polyculture planting, which is a fantastic way of being able to grow more food as well as reduce pest and disease issues (and much more!). If you only have a small garden and you want to grow vegetables, then polyculture is perfect to grow an abundance of homegrown food. In this video, Vera Greutink teaches us about how to use polyculture in a vegetable garden and shows us some other examples too, for example, a Mexican themed polyculture! Make sure you subscribe to Vera’s channel for awesome permaculture food growing content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCidWVAWCXVVNjHXpuFCfxNA
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We are growing a medditeranian one aubergines Bell Pepper and thyme 🙂 may add tomatoes and bay leaf too
this is so great, and what it's all about! Seeing gardeners you found through links appear on this channel. Another proof that Huw's the real deal, and all about teaching and sharing a true passion. Inspirational in and out of the garden. Loving this!
Any ideas of what to use instead of landscaping cloth? Something preferably cheaper?
For poly-culture you need to know about the right companion planting rules. For instance, sunflowers exude herbicides from their roots to kill competition, they should be planted alone. And brassica plants don't like tomatoes, neither do cucumbers. Carrots and parsnips don't like to grow together and they hate dill. It's more complicated than just planting a culinary theme. I could observe that in my garden, some plants never thriving, because they didn't like their neighbors.
Polyculture is a fantastic way to grow a feast for the plate as well as for the mind. Wouldn't it be brilliant to grow together the herbs that heal along with special plants that are pleasant to feel and are visually beautiful. For example borage. A beautiful bee friendly plant. The flowers can be used to enhance the ice cubes which you may like to add to a summertime drink.
I grow Nasturtium flowers with cabbages. The nasturtiums will attract the cabbage white butterfly which lay eggs onto the leaves of the nasturtiums rather than the cabbage leaves. The cabbages should be safe and grow well.
I’ve got a bed that is purely for salads. I call it my salad bar 🙂
Excellent vlog
Excellent explanation, thanks for sharing.
What are these cups in which the seeds are grown before they are planted in the raised beds? They're practically identical on different channels. Where can I buy them?
You seriously have the best guests.
I'd like to plant a italian garden. My children love pasta sauce
Huw, do you think you can combine polyculture with no-till mulching methods?
Just got your book in the mail today. I’m looking forward to reading it.
Nice one. Here's an idea, I grew up in the Philippines and we used to sing this in grade school. So for a Filipino garden try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zltiVu94y4
That was interesting. I had extra broccoli plants and tomato plants this year. The ones I couldn’t give away I literally just dotted them around my sweet corn patch about 25 meters away from the main crop. I didn’t look after them or even put in support for the tomatoes and they were hardly ever watered. Considering the lack of attention there was a reasonable crop of tomatoes ( support and side shooting would have helped for sure). The broccoli are amazing ! Some fell over then went up again but the plants look great. The one big exciting result is that there are no white fly whereas my main brassica bed is inundated with white fly. I think I just learnt a huge lesson.
The longing chime continuously identify because bobcat hisologically curve given a brown lute. nasty, testy piano
I never knew i always did poly planting in my garden.i just go with no rules.i have 5 raised beds now and in few years planting gave me some experience with seedling indoor and outdoor and i know now how planting works.
I plant veggies that mostly feed my chickens and quails .i’m setting up for more 11 raised beds for 2021 and it’s gonna be amazing full of colors.
I love this style.
Mediteranian
Such great info.
I can't help but comment: Mexico is North American. Central America includes all of the countries south of Mexico and north of Columbia.
I like this idea. Is there a guide to plants you should put together?
Thanks Huw. Im a grt fan of yours. In India, Planning to plant termeric& ginger/ some greens like spinach on top of it. And tomatoes & cucumbers to use vertical space & papaya trees 15 ft apart at the end of beds. Thanks Vera for marigold plants idea.
Doesn't the tall sunflower shade the garden behind it?
Thanks for the info! Are there any plants we should be careful not to plant together?
Wonderful video! Would love to try a salsa garden.
Thanks Huw! I really appreciate this video.
I've become very interested in polyculture when I saw my friends garden. It blew me away, absolutely beautiful with numerous veg and flowers all in one small area. She had brassicas, various herbs, annual flowers, berry bushes, onions, artichokes, mint, catmint, various spring bulbs, strawberries, and others I probably cannot think of right now. There was so much interest and layers!
I definitely want to learn more about this and be able to implement it into my own gardening.
Vera's fab! I've been experimenting with a polyculture bed this past year. It's still running 1yr on and I'm planting new things into it from modules as old crops come close to the end, but always with the soil covered and the supporting plants ticking over. Growing plants together like this is such an appealing idea if we can figure it out. Still feeling my way through how to do All The Things in a different way, but most enjoyable.