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/ You can join this channel by paying a monthly fee, to support our work with helping gardeners grow better, and to receive monthly videos made only for members: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB1J6siDdmhwah7q0O2WJBg/join