Add weeks to your growing season! Combine the early life of one planting with the almost-finished part of another. I show you some combinations of old and new vegetables which grow well in overlap.
The essential knowledge is that new seedlings do not need much light, moisture or nutrients. They just need somewhere to start developing their roots.
This can even happen more strongly when other more mature plants are around them. In fact, it's how plants start to grow in nature!
The golden rule is to find vegetables that will finish their cropping life within four weeks approximately. Then you need to find sufficient space for new transplants, or seeds.
With the cucumbers, for example, we cut off leaves with mildew and those going yellow. This opened enough space between the cucumber stems for popping in transplants of Florence fennel in mid-August. This solved the problem of finding space!
00:00 Introduction
00:29 Interplants of chervil between lettuce, variety Maravilla de Verona - I pick some outer leaves
01:48 Pak choi and winter radish under mesh
02:08 Spinach interplanted between lettuce
02:43 Watering new plantings
03:37 Fennel planted amongst ridge cucumbers
04:20 Seedlings in the greenhouse - kale and spinach
05:13 In the Small Garden - I transplant spinach at the base of cordon tomatoes
06:44 Dealing with slugs
08:52 Using dibber to create drills for directly sowing seeds of lamb’s lettuce around strawberry plants
10:41 Watering the newly transplanted spinach
11:22 Finding information in my books
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