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Consolidating Quick Crops 

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Sometimes we have too many salad greens and fast growing root crops to harvest from the gardens, especially this time of year with the crops in the polytunnel. But within a few months, most of the growing spaces will be filled with longer season crops, and these high value salad crops become less available. To keep things simple, especially with all of the explorations we do, we have been consolidating these quick crops, and are working to create a dedicated growing space for them so that we can produce them throughout the year.
0:00 Fitting in faster growing crops
1:00 Issues in the RED Gardens
2:50 Succession sowing batches
4:27 Full season outside
6:09 New explorations
7:23 New quick rotation beds
8:53 Beds for exploration
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Комментарии : 51   
@BlackJesus8463
@BlackJesus8463 Год назад
That spinach was huge! I watch a lot of market garden videos and salad greens are always the best seller. ✌
@REDGardens
@REDGardens Год назад
It is a big leaf variety of spinach! It seems that salad greens are the most profitable part of a market garden, possibly because of the really quick turnover, and they are so much better fresh.
@sploit_hashtag_100
@sploit_hashtag_100 Год назад
Why the double layer of landscape fabric between the two polytunnels? Are there issues with using only a single layer?
@bobaloo2012
@bobaloo2012 Год назад
I've been struggling with this issue the last few years also, as I've been downsizing my operation, moving away from market and now just growing for family and friends. I've always planted whole beds of crops, but I've finally worked out to divide my beds into 4'-6' sections and plant as you've done, to keep a succession going of smaller yields. I also interplant in time and space, meaning I plant a row of tall, slow crops down the middle of a bed, with rows of shorter, faster crops like lettuce or greens along the sides, which has worked great. It's a struggle, I put out my eggplants into a polytunnel yesterday and started stressing out because I'd "only" put out 40 plants, the had to adjust my brain and realize that was plenty for us. It takes a while.
@gregbluefinstudios4658
@gregbluefinstudios4658 Год назад
Planted my 1st lettuces 3 weeks ago, and putting a second batch today! Succession planting on a much smaller scale
@lkhfun6575
@lkhfun6575 Год назад
Very informative! Watched this one twice. 🙂
@REDGardens
@REDGardens Год назад
Cool! Thanks!
@scottbaruth9041
@scottbaruth9041 Год назад
I found out the hard way that a 50ft 30-inch bed of lettuce is sure pretty, but you can't begin to eat or sell it all. So I stayed with the 50-foot bed, but either do 7 day succession crops down it or do the 10 ft thing of 5 different crops all at once. Not pretty, but sure is practical. Also, a lot of succession crops go 7 days, 14 days, and 30 days. In my head I know every Saturday is 7 day planting time, every 1st and 15th day of the month is 14 day succession crop time, and 30 days from last frost date is always my 30 day succession crops. Whatever plan works in your garden may not always work for others. But it sure is fun to see what you do on these videos. Thanks for sharing!
@MilesMadigan
@MilesMadigan Год назад
I still struggle with consistent harvest. My ultimate goal is to be able provide salad greens every day of the year. But what usually ends up happening is I sow a ton of greens at the beginning of spring and then have way more than I can eat and then forget to succession sow and then suddenly I have none. Hoping to improve this year!
@kirstypollock6811
@kirstypollock6811 Год назад
This is me. I have come to think rather just eat seasonal. I end up making a lot of smoothies with leafy greens to use them up
@REDGardens
@REDGardens Год назад
Yep, I think many of us have been there. Having good quality greens every day of the year is my aim!
@hedfuka8608
@hedfuka8608 Год назад
👍
@BlackJesus8463
@BlackJesus8463 Год назад
👍
@hedfuka8608
@hedfuka8608 Год назад
💩👍
@BlackJesus8463
@BlackJesus8463 Год назад
👉👍
@REDGardens
@REDGardens Год назад
👍
@sixfigurebookkeeper7588
@sixfigurebookkeeper7588 Год назад
I so appreciate all that you share. Thank you.
@REDGardens
@REDGardens Год назад
🙂
@jimmy-jamesolivier-mccutch2126
Do you write your speechs or just go off the top of your head ? Loving the analytical nature of them, everything sound sooo thorough and precise almost like an astronaut giving an update on a project aha, wishing you great harvests as usual, all the best🙂
@REDGardens
@REDGardens Год назад
Yeah, it is all fully scripted before hand, otherwise I'd probably forget half of what I wanted to say, and it would still be longer!
@HikingInLatvia
@HikingInLatvia Год назад
Great job. All the best to you.
@REDGardens
@REDGardens Год назад
Thanks!
@kendo2377
@kendo2377 Год назад
One of my favorite overwinter quick crops is mustard tatsoi. It has a high germination rate and it's very hardy. I've pushed snow off of them to harvest. I think they actually taste better as winter green; less sharp/bitter to me.
@REDGardens
@REDGardens Год назад
I think there is some tatsoi in the spicy green mix that I sow, but I want to try it as a crop by itself. Thanks for the recommendation.
@jean-francoisfillion1307
@jean-francoisfillion1307 Год назад
Interesting as always!
@REDGardens
@REDGardens Год назад
Thanks!
@ColibrisMusicLive
@ColibrisMusicLive Год назад
thing i plan to try: potatoes deep in a container month before last freeze, with bok choi planted on top and harvest it young just before potatoes emerge, leaving the roots in the container. all under fleeze cover
@jeffmartin693
@jeffmartin693 Год назад
Great vid! always make me think, can it be better...
@Wendy-wh2sm
@Wendy-wh2sm Год назад
Really appreciate your experimental and analytical approach to growing vegetables. I’m in temperate Australia and just a passionate backyard gardener, so different climate, conditions and scale. But I also like to try different techniques, crops and varieties, and I also struggle with the feast or famine outcome, even with successive plantings. All my “waste” veggies go to the chickens - have you considered poultry to eat your excess and provide eggs and fertiliser? Anyway, many thanks for your videos, most enjoyable.
@gailthornbury291
@gailthornbury291 Год назад
I have severe turnip envy. I never even knew there was such a thing.
@FireflyOnTheMoon
@FireflyOnTheMoon Год назад
Bruce, how many tonnes of food did you grow last year?
@REDGardens
@REDGardens Год назад
About 5 tonnes.
@MissBetsyLu
@MissBetsyLu Год назад
What did you do with all of it? For Pete's sake, move over here!?!?!
@martinengelbrecht5384
@martinengelbrecht5384 Год назад
One needs a set day every two weeks to make the decision put out and replant ... If one is not conscience of that decision one can just carry on and replant too late.
@The_k81
@The_k81 Год назад
I was just out in my yard puzzling over this same problem as I start planting lots of these crops right now. I like your style. Do you prefer sowing in short rows perpendicular to the bed or in long rows parallel?
@REDGardens
@REDGardens Год назад
I guess I like the long parallel rows, not sure why.
@lisahodges8299
@lisahodges8299 Год назад
Any new slug defence systems? Birdy
@lizc8187
@lizc8187 Год назад
Bruce, I'd be very happy to see carrot thinnings in the fridge if ye aren't using them all. For pesto and salads. (I did a tiny 1/2 metre row of carrots last year and hoped the flies wouldn't find it. Alas. I'm planning a few carrot rows this year, but for leaf only.)
@REDGardens
@REDGardens Год назад
🙂
@unlimitedx53
@unlimitedx53 Год назад
Have you considered using horse-manure to heat the polytunnels so they could produce year-round especially quick rotation crops?
@bradcarby3765
@bradcarby3765 Год назад
How much space are we talking about here? I mean, what is your total growing space? I'd be interested to see what your seed starting setup looks like. What ratio do you direct sow vs plugs? Whatever. I work in a monocrop environment, but I do wish I had unlimited space to grow random shit. I do pretty well growing things I like to eat down the side of my house, but I'm sure I'm a couple of acres short of self-sufficiency. Interesting stuff as usual, thanks Man.
@TobiasDuncan
@TobiasDuncan Год назад
Do you have any spots that are free of grass where you might do a crazy experiment ? I know you have excess seed that you have saved. I wonder what would happen in you raked in a huge quantity of seed that you would otherwise have thrown away into a small area and just let them battle it out. I overseeded a cover crop last year at 200 pounds an acre when the species in the mix should have been between 10 and 30 pounds per acre. The results were amazing because all those little micro greens were pumping sugar into the otherwise barren soil.
@charlespalmer3595
@charlespalmer3595 Год назад
You may have said it already, but, how many turns of planting for each meter of bed are you doing for the new space between the tunnels?
@REDGardens
@REDGardens Год назад
I expect 4 or 5 plantings for each section in a full year.
@Lifegrowsonandon
@Lifegrowsonandon Год назад
Hi do you ever have problems with flies in the polytunnel? Fungus gnats?
@REDGardens
@REDGardens Год назад
Not yet.
@kirstypollock6811
@kirstypollock6811 Год назад
Is Japanese turnip the same as what we call "Mairube" here in Germany? Looks like it. I just planted a row!
@REDGardens
@REDGardens Год назад
Yes, I think that is the same. It is a great crop!
@toshilama
@toshilama Год назад
I am not sure it is. I have been looking for some time to find seed of the Japanese turnip. The mairuben that I get are not sweet like the Japanese variety. Where are u getting your seed @redgardens
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