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. <br /><br />The essential knowledge is that new seedlings do not need much light, moisture or nutrients. They just need somewhere to start developing their roots. <br /><br />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!<br /><br />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. <br />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!<br /><br />00:00 Introduction<br />00:29 Interplants of chervil between lettuce, variety Maravilla de Verona - I pick some outer leaves<br />01:48 Pak choi and winter radish under mesh<br />02:08 Spinach interplanted between lettuce<br />02:43 Watering new plantings<br />03:37 Fennel planted amongst ridge cucumbers<br />04:20 Seedlings in the greenhouse - kale and spinach<br />05:13 In the Small Garden - I transplant spinach at the base of cordon tomatoes<br />06:44 Dealing with slugs<br />08:52 Using dibber to create drills for directly sowing seeds of lamb’s lettuce around strawberry plants<br />10:41 Watering the newly transplanted spinach <br />11:22 Finding information in my books<br /><br />Info on where to buy my long-handled dibber: https://charlesdowding.co.uk/shop/gardening-products/<br /><br />My books and calendar: https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product-category/books/<br /><br />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:<br />https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB1J6siDdmhwah7q0O2WJBg/join<br /><br />#nodig #growyourownfood #sowingseeds #growyourownveggies #nodiggardening
