Skip to playerSkip to main content
  • 12 hours ago
Many allotmenteers and veg gardeners swear by companion planting – growing certain crops among others to help boost their harvest.Things which taste good together often grow well together, such as basil and tomatoes, beetroot and onions, dill and cucumbers, and lettuce and salad rocket, says gardener, teacher, author, social media star and ‘no dig’ pioneer Charles Dowding, who runs courses from his garden at Homeacres, Somerset. His new book, Grow Together, offers 50 planting partnerships to boost your harvests.

Category

🗞
News
Transcript
00:00Grow together.
00:00It's my new book.
00:01It has 50 beautiful combinations of plants
00:04you can grow together to make more use of the space.
00:08And depending time of year, what plants you've got.
00:11So for example here, in the middle of March,
00:14we planted potatoes at the same time
00:16as sowing turnips and radish.
00:18And the potatoes, as well as these peas,
00:21will really grow up fast now and fill up this space.
00:24But at the moment, there's still room here
00:26for these beautiful little radish.
00:27And so we're taking a harvest of radish
00:30and we'll have turnips later.
00:31And another combination we do is here.
00:34That'll come a bit later.
00:35So between lettuce, you can draw out lines like that.
00:39And so carrots, that'll be an early June.
00:41So all these possibilities grow together
00:44out 9th of April today, actually.
Comments

Recommended