Why I Am NOT Interplanting Vegetables This Year

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On today's 2 minute garden tip, I share why I am not interplanting vegetables this year in my garden. Interplanting veggies is a great way to maximize garden space, and pairing certain plants, like alliums, with pest susceptible plants, like nightshades and cucurbits, can repel insect pests. But, there is a catch.
Interplanting crops, also known as companion planting, requires care when managing garden beds, and you must pay closer attention to your harvesting windows. Interplanting garden vegetables can be fantastic if you're a good manager, but if space and time management is not your strong point, it comes with downsides.
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@2MinuteGardenTips 4 месяца назад

If you enjoyed this video, please “Like” and share it to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊

@YodaWhat 3 месяца назад

It struck me that having alliums planted together with tomatoes might result in root rot of the alliums, which need much less water. As for ending up with wasted space, why not dig up and transplant half of the alliums into the gaps left in the other half? While that will temporarily slow the growth of the transplanted half, it could be beneficial in the end to have 2 harvests instead of just 1. What do you think?

@lynnlovessoil 4 месяца назад

I laughed when you said “because my garden is so small”. It’s at about perspective.

@codytibbs9885 4 месяца назад

Lol quite funny eh - imagine having a garden so big that u forget what u plant

@daniellean5769 3 месяца назад

meanwhile, i'm watching this for my townhouse's patio garden 😂🌱

@juliehorney995 4 месяца назад

Finally someone giving honest feedback about both sides of the interplanting and intensive planting ideas. Shading was a big issue for me too.

@SilverSaabArc 4 месяца назад

You can plant lots of lettuce, radish, amaranth, basil, beets, or carrots under the leeks or around the onions. It's better than wasting a whole different bed to a single crop. You have to interplanetary in Northern climates to get max production from our short seasons. Bunching onions grow like weeds, I use than as a divider down the center of all my raised beds. It's not difficult to thin them back out to a single row as you harvest the other stuff in front of them. I love how I can plant leeks, rutabaga and carrots late (where potatoes once were) and leave then in the ground until almost december!

@MrSBGames 4 месяца назад

That is another benefit for leaf stripping lower leaves on tomatoes and peppers, you can see underplanted stuff

@jstoppard1 4 месяца назад

I get packs of onions started from seed at local nursery dirt cheap. Interplant them every where. Pull them as I need. Just consider the rest sacrificial.

@Junzar56 4 месяца назад

I do this all the time. I use the onions all the time. I always have some pop up the next year-I allow them to bloom and collect the seeds.

@jodywho6696 4 месяца назад

Live and learn✨😊

@mrslsix 4 месяца назад

This video answers the questions I had as I watched so many videos talk about companion planting with varieties that have different planting, growing and harvest cycles.

@susanmoore3013 4 месяца назад

Thanks for this! I was going to interplant for the first time this year, but I am notorious for forgetting the little guys, so, maybe not! Food for thought!

@Norbingel 4 месяца назад

Why couldn't you just plant new stuff in between the aliums left behind?

@jjd13579 4 месяца назад

I think a lot of this problem comes down to pulling the trigger on plants earlier than you could. Could you leave those leeks in the ground longer for optimal growth and storage? Sure, but you could also yank, blanch, and freeze them to open up the bed for fresh planting. Likewise, I pull and toss a lot of bunching onions because they grow so easily and I way overshoot on their production for the companion-planting benefits. It's a touch wasteful, but the seed is cheap (and doesn't keep well anyway), and it's worse in my small yard to not have the growing space.

@DanlowMusic 4 месяца назад

I had an issue with my zucchinis completely shading out my garlic. It died off. The awesome thing is it grew this year so i will still get a harvest of garlic. But i have learned from last year, to not put them near zucchini or tomatoes as they shadowed my alliums too much. So this year i tried to put sections of them (garlic and onion) spread out amongst the beds so they are close to other crops but not mixrd together. Less on the Square Foot Garden method.

@TexasNana2 4 месяца назад

I have 2 beds dedicated to onions. I started them last year. I also plant a few bunching onions around some of the other vegetables. Thanks for the update 😊

@terrinegron 4 месяца назад

thanks for this two minute tip!

@LeighJohnson-ny5tn 3 месяца назад

Your garden is small??😂 Love it. Either way, you’ve helped me so much. ❤

@sylvia10101 4 месяца назад

Thank you MG! 👍👍👍

@athomas897 4 месяца назад

wow. You do a great garden while working full time . Thanks for the tip.

@ChristinesBackyardGarden 4 месяца назад

I would just consider them sacrificial and pull them up if I needed the space. Otherwise, plant around them.

@elloohno1349 4 месяца назад

but so what about the pest control. Are you planning to do something else? I was thinking why not do both? interplant and have space dedicated to the aliums? Anyways, thanks. Love these short vids.

@DebRoo11 4 месяца назад

That's what I'm going to do. I don't necessarily need a big harvest of my interplanted alliums since i also will have dedicated beds for the varieties I'm most looking forward to. I also don't think it will be difficult see garlic and onion plants to grab for eaelier kitchen use and if i do forget there's nothing lost bc I'll get a real harvest from my dedicated bed and the few scattered around are still doing pest control whether over grown or not. i think the pros really outweigh the cons. If you want a bed totally cleared then rip the few onions out 🤷🏼‍♀️

@elloohno1349 4 месяца назад

@@DebRoo11 I was also wondering, is there a reason you can't plant new seedlings when there are still older plants?

@DebRoo11 4 месяца назад

@@elloohno1349 the only reason i can think of would be that they might cast too much shade onto a small seedling but other than that, no.

@stephaniegee227 4 месяца назад

So, I guess I'm glad I didn't try this yet, b/c I sometimes get sidetracked in the garden. I have multiple beds dedicated to garlic (we really like garlic), one bed for onions, one bag for shallots, one jumbo bag for leeks, and we will need to put one more row of onions on the edge of a major bed. I don't count bunching onions with my other alliums, and those I will keep planting with other things. Thanks so much for the practical update on this!!

@ForagerLife 4 месяца назад

What are you interplanting with the onions then, seems like a lot of room in there 🫚🍄🥕🌮

@JEBavido 4 месяца назад

Smart!

@BrokeFarmer 4 месяца назад

Good common sense gardening

@glow1815 4 месяца назад

I have 6 onions i have all year round lol( had about 15. I pick once a week. It's so big i only need one stalk for my dish.

@juliarroberts1621 4 месяца назад

Interplant bunching onions & chives/garlic chives. You can thin them periodically when you harvest.

@WillWilsonII 4 месяца назад

I used to interplant basil and peppers. At one point you want the peppers to flower and not the basil. So that's why it didn't work out.

@watsonrk1 4 месяца назад

Maybe the key is to plant things that mature roughly the same time? So the harvest of one is the harvest of another, and the bed is open to a rotational crop type...how farms work.

@traxmom 4 месяца назад

Try interplanting the onions with lettuce. The onions end up providing some dappled shade to the lettuce.

@janittachampagnie7100 4 месяца назад

I would like to know what you use to spread on the ground of your garden.

@webtrucker1 3 месяца назад

Why not still inter plant some sacrificial bunching onions for their benefits to other crops and dig them up when harvesting the other crops while also planting some elsewhere for harvest? I plant some sacrificial basil with my tomatoes while also planting it elsewhere in the garden for harvest. The basil planted with the tomatoes is allowed to flower to help bring in pollinators along with all of the other benefits that they have for the tomatoes. There are also other plants that I inter plant in my garden for similar reasons that I never intend to harvest to consume, but just for how they otherwise provide benefits for the other plants.

@mpsorrentino 4 месяца назад

Pretty sure part of interplanting is planting new plants while others are still in place, so you should be planting new crops between your leeks that are still in the bed,

@deliathorja442 Месяц назад

You let onions flower? I broke the tops but i don't really know what i'm doing... 😂 Been eating them for a while now, tho, as greens

@Yankee_Doodle_Stacker 4 месяца назад

well hell. Ive got garlic planted all around where my tomatoes will go this year based on last years advice.

@2MinuteGardenTips 4 месяца назад

It works great. You just have to stay on top of it and not forget to harvest it. I lost view of the garlic under my tomatoes, and it started dying back on me, so I missed a lot of it. If you don't make this mistake and stay on top of it and pull the garlic before it dies back, you'll have good results.

@SilkiesPb 4 месяца назад

I’m still surprised you don’t start onions in late fall and grow thru winter

@denisemorrison6331 4 месяца назад

Or, what about planting alliums as a border plant?

@2MinuteGardenTips 4 месяца назад

Sure. I'm not sure if it'll have any pest reduction effect doing it in that manner, though.

@jmtyndall 4 месяца назад

He says 1 week after I planted my rows of onions in the beds my tomatoes are about to go in

@2MinuteGardenTips 4 месяца назад

It's fine to do and works well. You just have to stay on top of the harvests and not lose sight of them.

@wipeoutxl21 4 месяца назад

whats with all the oranges on the ground? You gotta harvest those!

@2MinuteGardenTips 4 месяца назад

I'm not sure what you mean. I don't have any oranges on the ground. I have some peels I tossed under my trees, and my red lime tends to droop its fruit on the ground.

@magafam4847 4 месяца назад

I thought tpu said onion sets were horrible

@deannahenry8314 4 месяца назад

I was like "Why?" Sets are awful imho

@2MinuteGardenTips 4 месяца назад

I never said that. I said that I think growing them from seed provides more consistent results. However, onion seeds take much more time and effort. Onions grown from seed grow very, very slowly, and I wasn't happy with the number of seed grown onions I had. Therefore, I added sets, because I want more.

@magafam4847 4 месяца назад

@2MinuteGardenTips maybe thought you said you'd never grow cuz how many small ones so if I grow sets does that take less time then seed

@magafam4847 4 месяца назад

@@2MinuteGardenTips my onions say 115 days in maine is horible