I learned about a farmer who used peanuts planted in the same hole with corn. I tried it and it was a great success - solving my nitrogen issue. So I do that every time now. Possibly, that the fruit is subterranean is why. The plants’ resources are focused in production underground as opposed to above ground. I have not tried interplanting beans with corn, though. But….the peanuts worked so well, there’s no reason to change. In each hole, I put 2 peanuts (shelled) to one corn kernel.

interplanting - tomatoes and basil I found really works well. (I also planted a row of marigolds right next to my tomato/basil bed - worked very well also). Spinach and beans - particularly pole beans works well. I did find that my squash would vine out and head for the pole beans almost overnight - creating one H of a mess! My onions loved my lettuce and really most of my leafy greens - keeping a lot of different bugs at bay. but I love the idea of a tall bushy something shading the lettuce - going to try that this next year! Interplanting my radishes with another crop - I've tried several times - and will try again - but invariably my radishes bolted.

Yay for failures!! Please keep sharing those it's so helpful to learn from mistakes. Wish I had some intercropping ideas but I'm more focused on cover crops for fertility for perennials at the moment.

I have heard and watched other KZfaqrs that plant tomatoes and basil together. I'm going to try it next year.

Three sisters worked amazingly for me! And it's a great way to use the vertical space that the squash doesn't take up. I planted cow peas along with most of my veggies and that had worked out pretty well also

Great videos THX! In a farmer in Abruzzo Italy. One comon intercroping i do Is seeding beans in garlic . I do this about 15days After i gather the garlic scapes , At the last irrigation of the garlic .

I started lettuce with my tomatoes earlier this season, it was a great success. planted the tomato starts into a young lettuce bed, by the time they were 2 feet tall, lettuce was coming out

I tried the 3 sisters theory in my raised beds. Sadly, I needed WAY more space. My Poor squashes got choked out. The beans did good, but the corn, not so much!!! I will usually "intercrop" carrots with either sugar snap peas or tomatoes with good production and I always plant marigolds! I am an urban raised bed gardener in New England, btw, just trying to maximize my yield, for my family of five. I love your lettuce under celery idea. I grew celery for the first time this year and I think I always will, from now on. 👍 Happy growing and thanks for the tips!

I grow winter squash on 3 fixed trellis' early before squash bugs show up and about 3 weeks before they are done I plant dry pole beans in between them to be growing when squash are pulled.

Coriander and beetroot go well together, similar sized seed too. Mix them in the seeder. I use sudan grass in summer for afternoon shade, then chop it with a machete and cover the garlic beds in autumn. I am trying intersowing oats and bush sugar snap peas in the brassicas, the oats reduces(redox reduction) mineral nutrients and will sustain the fungi for the next crop - that is the hope.

Here in spain, Galicia they plant the white beans with the corn. This has been that way way for decades. They collect them both together

Actually, I have interplanted outdoor tomatoes, genovese basil and green onions (bunching onions aka Ishikura) together but I have 4 rows of tomatoes with basil. I mean basil on both sides of the first tomato row, then a double row of tomatoes with basil on the west side and then a single row of tomatoes with basil on the west side and bunching onions on their west side....ooooooopppppssss and I have just two marigolds on the west side of the first row where I didnt put a basil. I have planted two rows of flint corn on the east side of one row of climbing beans and then one row of red sorghum following on from the end of the flint corn along the rest of the east side of the climbing beans. As for intercropping cover crops, I have sunflowers, broom sorghum, mustard, tillage and daikon radish...they seem to be doing fine on just a small test area. Oh, I also intercropped winter rye and vetch and it is great. Although, I intercropped sunflowers, broom sorghum, melons, pumpkins, mustard, tillage radish and some flint corn nearby and well our (one of our) invasive, persistent, rather small but likes about 75cm wide pathways about 50 metres long and does wipe out everything in his/her path, totally wiped that one as if they hadnt been sown (I did see the plants growing and some of the vine plants have survived...did I tell you about the hamster :-). Finally, west of the Ishikura onions, I put marjoram and west of those, I have put thyme...so an interplanting of tomatoes, basil, bunching onions, marjoram and thyme....I feel like Simon here...anyone know where Parsley, sage and rosemary are with Garfunkel ??? :-)

Thank you for testing all these things for us, sharing the good and the bad and your thoughts… this is really helpful! I did Celeriac and Kohlrabi and it worked fantastic. Actually it was my first bed ever and was kind of beginners luck! 😅 We had way too many plants, no space in the other beds and I wanted to „just get them into the ground“. I think the intense smell of Celery irritated the Cabbage fly butterfly. In other parts of the garden we had a big Cabbage fly butterfly pest that year, but our Kohlrabi was safe!

I planted a few okra seeds VERY late then a few weeks later planted several Red Russian kale and collard transplants among them. I put one Red Russian transplant on the next row over between a zucchini and purple hull peas. Although the weather has been much too warm for the kale, the kale planted among the okra was untouched by any bugs. The kale planted with the zucchini and peas got attacked by some sort of little worms. Next year I’m going to plant my okra 24” apart (instead of 18) to leave space for my Fall kale.

Liking it. Srarting soon. Have 80 acres in Manitoba, Canada. Can't wait

I withdrew from the USA greenhouse program before we were awarded and I refuse to chase the organic seal, not because of pesticides, it is just TOO much government bs intervention and control. My customers only seemed concerned with pesticides

Buckwheat is another good one to fill in space. Grows quickly blooms in 30 days good for pollinators and mines phosphorous. Prob other good things too.

Woo-hoo! Another useful episode! MOTIVATE ME MOTIVATOR!!! 🙌🌱🫶

Hi, thank for your videos I like them, lot of good informations. Can I use salat plants in a garlic bed as a inner planting? Is it wise to use companion planting whith garlic? I'm in Iceland on the west side of the country.

I Like your videos. If you focus on expanding more time on opening shots so the camera if automatic zooms in that would be nice to see. Thanks for such great information presented in such a pleasant way. Best

My method of companion planting is A: I mix my pelleted carrot seed with my radish seed. It leaves me with better spacing on my carrots and gives the seedlings a little shade until I harvest the radishes. B: I have 7’ wide “hoop houses” that cover 2 x 30” beds. Instead of using plastic, I cover with trellis netting. I’ll plant pole beans or cucumbers (any climbing crop) on the outside of the hoops and my leafy greens under the hoops. The idea is that the climbing crop will shade my greens from the Texas heat.

I am going too try intercropping sweet potatoes inbetween every other row of corn this year. Small scale to give me an idea of how well it performs. I like the idea of the radish planted with broccoli , may also try this with cabbages I’ll be growing.

We have been playing the idea of using video game software to make companion planting less complex. At the same time, we really need a revolution in our plant breeding. We need more breeders who are for no dig and organic primary. we use food plants to suppress weeds and what we need sometimes is plants that do certain things really well that happen to be edible. IE a nitrogen-fixing breed and that's what it is breed to do. Ya, I'm out here listening to your show as a podcast and this topic actually made me stop what I'm doing and watch the video live. We are so under sci and underfunded. Back in the day with all the schools doing plant breeding and open-pollinated plants colleges and U's would have been on top of this. I don't think the USDA realizes how much of a revolution in food is needed to hang on. We are a country are so obsessed with these huge john deere tractors and 1000s of barely productive acres manage that way. BTW------ (SPRING ONIONS) are your friend. not full size onions

Great video, they keep getting better and better. Your cuts were really neat also. Would you mind sharing what camera equipment and editing software you use. Keep up the good work!

How was pollination on that single row of double corn?

I have tried using peas in with my corn and I'm not sure if its helping the corn but I can tell you the few Oregon giant pea plants I have in there are very stunted not doing well which is not why they're there but not to sure

have you tried inter planting with potatoes

How does that work with organic certification rotation guidelines? I'm planning to get things started with organic certification this year, and shamelessly copying a lot of your work!

My pests are slugs and snails and they LOVE marigolds. Chomp chomp

I tried the three sisters last year. My beans did not cooperate, so it was primarily two sisters. 😂

Slugs love marigolds

Is edamame the same thing as soya beans?

The drum music at the end made me think I had autoplayed a David the Good video next

Three Sisters is mythology? I dont think so.