Spacing Details for Vegetables|| Charles Dowding
Why good spacing makes a difference and is worth doing well.
I show and explain to you some of the many vegetables we can see in the garden now on 6th November. Also we show you summer vegetables from a few months ago.
00:00 Introduction
01:19 Brussels sprouts
02:09 Drawing lines to help work out spacings
03:12 Harvesting some Brussels
03:51 Spacing to reduce whitefly
04:03 Plants with spacing requirements similar to Brussels
05:08 Other categories of spacing
05:40 Celeriac - different spacings, and interplanting between wider spaced plants
07:20 Harvesting celeriac
08:36 Spacing ideas for multisown leeks, cabbage and cauliflower
09:33 Vegetables that come in the ‘middle zone’ of spacing - multisown leeks, a second planting after potatoes
12:06 Beetroot and chard spacing suggestions
13:26 Close spacings - spinach
13:51 Multisown radish, and corn salad/lamb’s lettuce - closest of all spacings
14:08 A bed of mixed plantings - how they are spaced
16:22 Considering a plant’s root run, and how to allow for it
17:02 Close spacing of rocket
17:51 Outro - more on interplanting
Some spacing info for veg shown in the video:
Multisown beetroot - quick/smaller harvests: 30cm, large plants/longer cropping 37cm
Brussels sprouts - quick/smaller harvests: 50cm, large plants/longer cropping: 60cm
Celeriac - quick/smaller harvests: 30cm, large plants/longer cropping: 37cm
Corn salad/lamb's lettuce - quick/smaller harvests: 10cm, large plants/longer cropping: 12cm
Multisown radish - 3 x 20cm
Spinach - quick/smaller harvests: 17cm, large plants/longer cropping: 25cm
A full table of spacing info is available as part of my Useful Information: www.charlesdowding.co.uk/prod...
See this Knowledge Pack we sell, all about spacings for a wide range of vegetables www.charlesdowding.co.uk/prod...
There's lots of spacing information in my Skills book www.charlesdowding.co.uk/prod...
And the Skills online course
www.charlesdowding.co.uk/cour...
Music by Rory Dinwoodie @rorydinwoodiemusic6884
Filmed, edited November 2023 by Edward Dowding in Somerset, UK zone 8 climate.
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