Spacing Plants Efficiently and Effectively with Charles Dowding

You have great flexibility and many options for spacing plants efficiently and effectively. Aiming for the most production of food and foliage from any area, at any time.

Time is a big moving goalposts because some plants mature quickly and vacate space so you can group other parts quite closely towards them. Because you know that they won't be there after a certain time.
This saves space and increases harvests.

It really helps that you grow No Dig because then fertility is stronger and weeds are fewer. This gives you a blank canvas to paste on at any time including by intercropping and overlapping plantings.

#nodig #growyourownfood #nodiggardening

Filmed by Nicola Smith on 12th May 2023, at Homeacres no dig garden.

00:00 Introduction
00:12 Potatoes, with catch crop of turnips between
00:39 Spinach, soon to finish
00:53 Carrots, with a catch crop of radish
01:24 Cabbage, and problems with growing
01:39 The benefits of multisowing, with beetroot as an example
02:26 Lettuce plants, which will be interplanted with carrots, and why no dig helps with interplanting
03:14 Sweetcorn, with wide spacing
03:54 Cumin, planted between garlic
04:11 Multisown chard, and size options when growing
04:52 I demonstrate interplanting chard between garlic
05:36 A look at a small bed, full of plantings to maximise space
06:10 More onion examples – bulb and spring
06:55 Multisown leeks in module trays, soon to be potted on
07:28 A variation on interplanting in the polytunnel – garlic between tomato plants
07:51 Clearing salad plants from the polytunnel, then spreading compost – mushroom on top of horse manure from hotbed
08:18 I explain the garlic interplanting
08:44 Dwarf French marigolds (one eaten by woodlice) – good for filling gaps and the space at ground level
09:21 An example of using over-winter space – a bench over recently cleared salad plants for growing transplants, including strawberry plants
10:05 Melon and pepper, soon to be transplanted – well-spaced
10:38 The importance of leaving enough space between plantings

See my Spacings Knowledge Pack https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product/spacing-why-its-important/

My latest growing book https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product/no-dig/

More on multisowing, interplanting and spacing in Skills for Growing, available as an online course: https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product/skills-for-growing-online-course/

And in the digital version of my book: https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product/skills-for-growing-digital-version/
(Print version back in stock soon: https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product/charles-dowdings-skills-for-growing/)

And multisowing info in this knowledge pack: https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product/propagation-seeds-sowing-and-multisowing/

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