Polyculture - SECRET to Gardening Success

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Polyculture planting is a great way for gardeners to reap the benefits of plants helping each other. Growing a variety of plants next to or near each other can avoid many of the problems common in home gardens. Polyculture, cultivating several kinds of crops, is easy in the garden and can lead to bigger harvests and more gardening success. (Video #289)
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@adubs7607 3 жыл бұрын

Every episode you put out has me saying, "Alright, Scott. Tell me about what I didn't know I wanted to know!"

@drawingmomentum 3 жыл бұрын

I bet if every lawn were transformed into poly gardens, there would be no problems for the bees, it would rain again in the deserts, and streams would have fish again. Plus, think of all the food! & community!

@kaittemurry4740 2 жыл бұрын

Right victory garden style

@popsfarm916 Жыл бұрын

The problem with fish is hydro electric. No ladders for fish to spawn. Even farm ponds add to this.

@marcogallazzi9049 3 жыл бұрын

That moth has a great sense of timing :)

@ericdavitt1884 3 жыл бұрын

Poly sowing CAN help but it caused me problems this year by not being able to cover my cabbages from the loopers. They know the differences from say tomatoes and cabbages and u couldn't net the cabbages because I poly sowed near tomatoes to save space as mentioned in square foot gardening. Scott is still gives great advice but it doesnt always work for everyone in all situations. I've learned to group plants that are coverable and plants that require pollinators.

@ValedasBrumas 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. I maintain a lot of the natural plants around my garden and they are not attacked as often as the garden of my neighboors who only have one kind of vegetable on the garden. This is as amazing strategy, thanks for the video.

@trishbishop3923 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve been trying to use up my old flower seeds(that I’ve been saving for YEARS for some odd reason). By scattering them around. Some come up And some don’t. And some that didn’t germinate first year came up this year…what a nice surprise!!!

@Horse237 3 жыл бұрын

Did you try seed soaking in unchlorinated, fluoride free water?

@adampetherick6266 3 жыл бұрын

Omg 😲 you are the first to talk about this topic no channel that I no is talking about this why.to be onest I thought it was all the same for 20 years thank-you.

@joyceruddy584 3 жыл бұрын

Patrick at OYR has been a proponent for many years.

@spirit8933 3 жыл бұрын

Very informative video! Thank you for the information :)

@ipatates 3 жыл бұрын

I have small garden and its exactly a polyculture. Its lovely, I love my garden.

@ipatates 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video, I learned a lot from you.

@Gkrissy 3 жыл бұрын

Helpful and informative video. I have learned from you and others about permaculture principles. Diversity is key to everything in life! I took your advice Gardner Scott and I grew F wilt resistant variety of tomatoes in the area of my soil where I know it exists. Then I have heirloom tomatoes next to basil and green amaranth in one bed. I used cover crops last year in this area and I have found my vegetables are more resilient and no tomatoes hornworms.

@charlesstock64 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gardener Scott. Informative and helpful video. i used SQ Ft approach this year also but trellised tomatoes (2 varieties of cherry only) and musk melons on cattle panel trellis (thanks to your idea) that spanned east side of one bed to west side of a parallel bed. The plants only took up the related sq Ft on the edges of the bed and the trellis is now a shade tunnel where I can pick cherry tomatoes (now July in NH) and melons in about a week or two. I mapped out shade throw of plants on paper to also allow for planting mixes in beds (tall on north end, with shorter going to the south. It seems to have worked well. Planting the garlic and onions among the broccolini and the cabbages seems to have kept the cabbage worms to a minimum where I could see the damage and physically remove before real damage was done. One spray of BT also was done once they showed up and that seemed to keep them away. No hornworms yet! We also scattered a beneficiary insect seed mix in areas around the food garden. We attract a large number of native birds and the birds have done a great job in spreading sunflowers, asters, coneflowers and wild geraniums to the point of having to move some or weed them out when they crowd out other desirable plants. The goldfinches really like to eat the rainbow chard and we just let them have a little corner for that. Thanks again, having fun and learning a lot from your channel and programs.

@ejfishes7610 3 жыл бұрын

Very informative, I always walk away learning something new! I did this in my vegetable garden without knowing I did it lol.

@brightantwerp 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@JOI2CoCo963 3 жыл бұрын

Love it. Thanks Scott. We have been witnessing & learning lots with bugs in our garden. we watched a butterly lay its eggs other day. and were watching a pair of butterflies sleeping. This would be what our garden is and its coming on lovely considering it was a late one and empty mid to end of June! Namaste Zanoni-Snowflake

@SoyBegoy 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant, thank you good sir. 🤟🌍

@FloridaGirl- 3 жыл бұрын

Not me! 🤣 No chems or herbicides on lawn for me. It all gets collected and composted. Am currently making biochar.! But you are right about mixing it up! 👍 Great advice!

@Gkrissy 3 жыл бұрын

Dito, my goal is to keep using biochar on my front lawn, and I use chicken feed the soil and mushroom compost is underneath. I don’t spray herbicides, I just cut it or pull by hand. I have a poly culture in the flower beds but I would like to keep adding more plants.

@adampetherick6266 3 жыл бұрын

Stinging nettle it's a natural diuretic and it helps with inflammatory just to let you know stinging nettle tea

@johnbates4765 3 жыл бұрын

i've been watching your videos for about a month now and i really enjoy how informational you are! you've Taught me quite a bit. today, after i finish watching this video i plan to go outside and plant into a hay bale, i saw your video where you did straw so i'm going to try hay (they've been sitting for almost a year now) and i'm going to see what happens. thanks for the videos, and i hope see more!

@racebiketuner 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for another great vid! This was one of my goals for 2021. I planted 25 different varieties of veggies plus flowers. Shortly after getting twenty established, there was a huge jump in the number and diversity of insects. Also several times greater diversity of birds. A few months later small lizards showed up and recently they started making babies. I'll definitely be bumping it up next year with the flowers. I plan to add separate beds for bees, other beneficial insects and flowers that do well in partial shade.

@heidiclark6612 3 жыл бұрын

I learn something in every one of your videos. I have monoculture vegetable raised beds and polyculture flower gardens. How about that!

@freedombug11 2 жыл бұрын

LOL How did you make that moth fly by at that moment!

@ericdee2525 3 жыл бұрын

Gardener Scott, have you done any videos on watering\irrigation? Im looking to lay some tubing for my raised beds. Just looking for some tips before I get deep in it :) Thank you for all your great content

@GardenerScott 3 жыл бұрын

I'm working on that video now. I prefer hand watering over tubing in raised beds because I change up the plants in my raised beds many times during the season. Tubing and drip irrigation is great but may not be best for a bed filled with plants.

@blessildajoy 3 жыл бұрын

Thankfully my lawn is also a polyculture 😂

@Veronica-nq9kr 3 жыл бұрын

???? Thanks for the tips! I think I'll plant my fall crops as a polyculture. I'm in Pueblo - what are some reliable sources for comfrey? None of my local gardening stores carry it.

@GardenerScott 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know of any sources for plants and don't have any recommendations. You can find seeds online from a few sites.

@freedombug11 2 жыл бұрын

If your lawn is mainly weeds that you just mow, I bet that's fairly diverse and doesn't count as monoculture! Right?

@GardenerScott 2 жыл бұрын

I would say so, unless they are all the same weed.

@freedombug11 2 жыл бұрын

@@GardenerScott Cool! 😁👌🌱

@freedombug11 2 жыл бұрын

I am moving into a house where Round-Up was used prodigiously on the ornamentals and probably the lawn. Is there a period of time after which it's safe to grow edibles in these areas? A few years? Or never?

@GardenerScott 2 жыл бұрын

Round-Up (Glyphosate) binds with soil and can take six months for soil bacteria to break it down.

@freedombug11 2 жыл бұрын

@@GardenerScott OK, that's great! Thank you so much for the response!

@lastchancemonicam3948 3 жыл бұрын

I've all ready told my family if this pandemic stuff continues, I'll be getting chickens and rabbits, and my new (real) HOA can stuff it. I do not like having neighbors.