This Gardening Method Changed My Life

[@Gardenary]

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[@donnabrooks1173]

Great video. This does make perfect sense. Many gardening KZbinrs that I watch also use flowers and herbs to confuse pests. Thank you.

[@jeannine9066]

I am bedridden a lot, but also love to garden. I can’t stay on top of things like the garden demands. I was beginning to think I’d have to quit, but my Dr loves that I garden because it is the best exorcise I get. I will garden when I don’t feel the best, because I know I can’t afford to let the beds dry out or the weeds take over. I won’t do that for workouts😂! I’m going to try your method this coming Spring. I will let you know how it goes. I am encouraged, thank you 😊!

[@Gardenary]

Keep us posted! Take care!

[@pwssoh]

Thank you, I binged all your previous KZbin videos from the start during Covid lockdown and have been learning to garden this way, and even my mom, who is a long time gardener, was amazed at my green thumb and beginner’s luck. But I must credit you where I learned about cold/cool/warm/hot weather crops and also when to start seeds with first and last frost dates. Even though I didn’t join your membership, I learned a lot taking your free workshops (thank you so much for making those available for free) and I bought your first kitchen garden revival book, read it from cover to cover, and finally convinced my husband to revamp the backyard last fall. I now have 80sqft of raised bed space and another 40sqft in-ground and I barely needed to buy veggies during the spring, summer, and fall seasons. I’ve got enough squash to last me for the whole year for which I now need to find recipes for. And overall, everyone in the house is more keen to eat vegetables because they’re homegrown and even my 2.5 year old son is enjoying the peas that he helped direct sow, water, and harvest. Friends and family are amazed at how fresh herbs taste in pastas and baked fish, and I love fresh herbs in an egg salad sandwich. I was able to make herb salt with the abundance of herbs and I’ve gifted to family and friends. Nicole, you have started me and a lot of us on a journey of eating healthy, right from our gardens. It has been literally my place of refuge when life has been overwhelming. I am thankful for you and your online presence. You are a positive gem to our generation. Blessings to you and yours.

[@Gardenary]

Wow this means so much and is so incredible to hear about your journey. ❤❤❤ thank you so much for taking the time to share. Keep growing!! 🎉

[@VisRuralTales91]

I am Vietnamese and I really like your videos. It is a wonderful space.

[@BettieDonner-qg4kr]

I pretty much use intensive gardening. I also grow 30+, 5 gallon buckets of veggies some of which trail up lattice. This is along with raised garden beds. I am very happy with the results. Right now, I have 24 buckets with at least 2 plants each as well as lettuce, spinach, kale and such. Greats way to garden. I truly enjoy your videos.

[@baneverything5580]

Try Ground Cherries inside in winter. They`re prolific and a great way to have tropical-like fruits galore out of season. They reseed in a prolific way if grown outdoors but I don`t care. Plant once and they`ll be there forever.

[@reneemills-mistretta790]

That's a very incredible realization. You paid attention to what the surroundings were telling you. They live together and help each other thrive. Very interesting way to learn gardening. ThankQ.

[@pearlvongpusanachai5942]

This is SO INSPIRING and it makes so much sense!❤ Maybe I should start in January 🎉

[@wolfsounds1]

I live in zone 9b and my garden has been a failure 3 years in a row. Thank God I found you ! I am so excited again to have a thriving garden! Thank you !!!❤

[@Gardenary]

Your summers are tough in 9b. You just have to shift when you expect to grow crops. Welcome to the Gardenary community!

[@baneverything5580]

Try Red Ripper Peas in the cooler parts of the year...like below 90 degrees. They`re very heat and drought tolerant but they produce the best below 85 degrees. Try a Dwarf Everbearing Mulberry tree too. You can force it to fruit once it reaches 8 to 12 feet tall in the first year by cutting every branch back by half and cutting off all the leaves.

[@baneverything5580]

Ground Cherries are prolific in the heat too.

[@royde-bo-hun3113]

I just got a whole free area. We were going to build a big deck but now I have decided to put in a garden area. I am going to do your method. I subscribed to your channel. I love your delivery and you know what you’re talking about. My BF will be shocked when it explodes. Thank you for the info. I will keep you updated. I will be starting my seedlings here in about a month. We are a 5A. So some of my food I want, need more of a growing time. I’m gonna explode my ground up…🌿🌿🍀🍀

[@lorraineelderhurst4199]

Thank you, its my birthday on Sunday and I just now said to my husband, I know what I want so he ordered your book for me. I am in Australia and in my seventies. Love gardening but just give up on vegetables because they dry out etc as you mentioned. It is Spring here so will rip up garden beds this morning and cover in compost (I am good at composting) and will wait in anticipation for the delivery. Will tell you how my veges grow.

[@Gardenary]

Happy early birthday! Hope you enjoy the book!

[@naturalyawd7814]

Love it, great information. I have a small space so i do something similar. I plant Tomatoes with herbs around it. My mistake is planting all Kale together and then Aphids usually get them in the fall. I plant more and more every year so i am looking forward to spring so i can go all in with this method.

[@fransfairgarden4044]

Absolute gold….nature is always right. Thank you for sharing!

[@Tiffany-Rose]

Its Polyculture. Mimics nature and thats why plants do so well because mother nature grows best 👍

[@debbiem2146]

While this is not an original planting method, it's always good to be reminded of the different roads to success in gardening. Some exceptions to this particular style will always be the case, ie sweet potatoes (leaves and roots), sunflowers (fruit and leaves, some people even eat the heads), etc. The old companion planting concept is nicely reinforced in her personal gardening discovery, and it's good to see her "new" insights so beautifully presented. Her book would be a valuable addition to any new gardener's library, I'm sure. Thank you, Gardenary.

[@Kp1985Christschild]

There’s also the addition of dwarf plants vs regular vining types - same plant (i.e. tomato) but multiple VERY DIFFERENT plant sizes. Still, in a basic sense… it works.

[@noctoi]

Just got myself an early Christmas present of your audiobooks. I have very limited space and even less mobility... and a near famous black thumb lol. Looking forward to trying this out in the little raised beds on wheels I just got. Maybe I can convince some tomatoes and herbs to grow this year (in Australia so I'm a little late to plant but we'll say it's an experiment!) Brilliant video that's given me a little bit of hope. Thanks 🙂

[@rbthegardennannyllc4219]

Girlfriend where have you been on KZbin??? I guess this was a suggestion because I didn’t look it up. I pretty much have given up on vegetables like leafy greens. Too many pests and so tomatoes were my go to. I’m looking forward to watching more from you before I jump in. I’m a garden nanny (I help people in their garden with flowers) but I never felt comfortable helping them with their vegetable garden because I’ve never had great success. Thanks for sharing.

[@errorjam1760]

Me too! Cucumbers were just kicking my BUTT with all those aphids and pests they gain 😣 But now seeing this and confirming my beliefs that companion planting would be better, I’ll be jumping back in again with cucumbers next spring 😆

[@jjm7103]

Thanks so much. This is very encouraging as I am still learning. This makes me excited as I plan for next spring.

[@carolinmancini]

You make it so easy to remember. Thank you!

[@herbanexplorer]

Thank you so much for sharing this information. I love gardening but am only successful "some" of the time with "some" of my plants. I even had to fight ASTERS YELLOW on a few of my plants! I learned about planting different plants and flowers with your vegetable plants and I think that helped a lot! But I have a question: --> If your garden is south-facing, do you still need to put your large (or "fruited") plants in the middle, or would it be to the back since they are taller and would shade any plant behind it?

[@SoulfulConnectionsHaven]

❤🌸👍

[@Gardenary]

It depends on your layout, but the back might work best so they don't shade other plants.

[@krismodrow3993]

This method makes sense to me. Im going to incorporate it in my garden beds 2025!

[@janetjohnson373]

thank you I do have the roots and leaves and fruit book. It is so pretty will be doing this next spring. I have metal horse troughs on wheels that my dad helped me set up. Hmm so excited.

[@grounded7362]

If you can figure out how I can eat fresh from my garden 365 days a year in northwest Minnesota zone 3, without building a heated greenhouse over my garden, you are the best gardener I have ever come across. Hard to harvest with at least two feet of snow and more and as low as -40+ degrees. I am just having fun. With that said it has been in the low to mid twenties with an inch of snow on the ground and I have a few young cauliflower plants hanging on but that will end once the ground finally freezes. I can get plants in the brassica family and different greens through the winter with enough cover for the winter but then they are only growing for seed production at that point as they quickly put up a seed stock. Great video. Intercropping like this makes for very healthy soil as the different plants help each other grow as they feed each other through the root system.

[@CuriouslyCute]

Idk about as harsh an environment as that, but look up "hot beds," plant microclimates, wofati greenhouses, and walipini greenhouses.

[@ticktock2383]

Grow your food inside in the winter. Tomatoes won't work but you can grow spinavh, lettuce and kale.

[@anitag6747]

@@ticktock2383 You can, however, give next year's tomatoes a head start according to Next Level Gardening and a couple of other channels. I'm trying their method for next spring: I took cuttings of my best indeterminates (doesn't work for det. tomatoes) and put them in water. They are growing roots now; soon I'll put them in pots and give them gentle grow light exposure, since I don't have a good sunny window for them. Fingers crossed! I'm trying to overwinter some peppers, too -- got a couple in the basement, but most are outdoors huddled together on a deck with frost cloth. Hopefully they survive (TN on Cumberland Plateau -- zone was just changed to 6b from 7, I think).

[@cbak1819]

Great for you! That is wonderful you can do that. That doesn't work in my climate. I know from experience. Humid wet conditions. I also grow cut flowers and those I can grow closer, due to succession planting. Less powdery mildew, less bug pressure with wider spacing.

[@Gardenary]

I started gardening like this in Houston!

[@paulakelly563]

You are explaining planting guilds , check forest gardening , Nature is the best teacher we just have to observe take time and practice and share your knowledge, 😊

[@jerrygallagher-y9n]

great watch im lucky got a bit of space and experiment each year with various methods ill try this method early next year hers hoping

[@alwaysbekindlove]

Chaos gardening baby!

[@annatian2006yoube]

That sounds great! Will try the method in the coming spring! Thanks ❤

[@nancyn.226]

Love this! Now to do some change up in my newly planted raised beds 😊

[@annalomossaro2542]

Can't wait to try this, thanks

[@agnesloizou6733]

Large, medium and small plants method we use it for hundreds-hundreds year ago in Europe 💕

[@anitag6747]

Good point! The Native Americans did this too -- the "three sisters" come to mind -- corn, squash, and beans. The corn is a natural trellis for the beans and provides shade. (I think that is right, but someone correct me if I am wrong.) I will try this method out next spring; have read a lot about interplanting and square foot gardening, and symbiotic planting such as basil with tomatoes and peppers, interspersing borage (no luck with that - it either didn't come up or died immediately) and aromatics to keep pests away and that sort of thing, so this seems a natural progression (no pun intended).

[@tamifiore6047]

Hello and thank you SO much! Question: I also live in a humid climate. Harvesting aside, by pruning regularly do you mean keeping plants from getting too intertwined or their full sized?Getting rid of tomato suckers? Just getting rid of old unhealthy growth? Other? Or all? Thank you!

[@Gardenary]

For leafy greens, it's taking those older, outer leaves to keep them smaller. We actually keep the suckers and harvest the lower tomato leaves and the non-fruiting stems. We have this video about our tomato pruning process here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qn_TkIGJr6ifqpo

[@tamifiore6047]

Thank you!

[@susanhunt8594]

We live on the south east coast of England, in the seventies I used to watch Geoff Hamilton on tv, he was a fantastic gardener. This was the method he used in his Ornamental Kitchen Garden series, I still have his books. He grew flowers amongst the veg in beds with loads of different things in them. This method worked then and it’s worked ever since, and it all looks very pretty, not just like utilitarian veg beds.

[@susanwhittaker865]

I loved Geoff Hamilton. We lived near Barnsdale, Oakham. But, sad to say I never got to meet him.

[@smiley2477]

This method also helps prevent or lesson weeds. There isn’t space for weeds and the larger plants chickens them out.

[@aaronheidel]

I'm in a subtropical climate so I like to stagger my plantings to extend my harvest time. Any ideas about how to work such staggered planting into this fruit-root-leaf gardening method? Seems like the problem would be the big plants (tomato, pepper, eggplant, etc.) would have longer lifespans than the leafy plants (cabbage, mustard greens, bokchoi, etc.). Do you just plant the new starts into the established row among all the mature plants?

[@Gardenary]

Yep. It's like a revolving door of plants

[@Ntuthu-ZA]

Light bulb moment. Right now, the only part of my garden that’s thriving is where my corn and beans are growing. There are tiny flower plants coming up, but not yet visible. I’m in the Southern Hemisphere.

[@Gardensiren24]

Lol I did this on accident too like have patches of stuff growing and like mostly the native stuff has been most successful bc I'm a lazy gardener barely starting though of course so I'm sure over time I will add things.

[@Gardenary]

Lazy gardening is the way-let nature do the work ❤

[@AcornHillHomestead]

I think that’s what is called a guild. Most of us think of this as fruit trees, shrubs and smaller underplants like strawberries. People could take a lesson from nature as in this is how we should be as humans. We are better together. The plants I let do their own thing seem to do best. I have a strawberry patch I’ve been fighting raspberries. I’m just letting it go. They both look so healthy. I am in zone 4 and we have oregano that comes back every year in the path. I harvest so much of it! Oregano isnt supposed to be perennial here.

[@hilkkahirvonen4831]

Loved this idea

[@ronavanderwalt3134]

This video is so much help. Thank you ❤

[@pratimajeejula2959]

love the concept

[@melodylamour6123]

Are you saying I can just throw everything about "companion planting" out the window?? That would be easier on my brain for sure. I have a 10ft by 8ft area, sectioned into 4 areas. I so know that I am not putting enough food in there. I also have about 32 concrete double blocks around the perimeter. I figured herbs and flowers could go in them. Well, 2 rosemary, 2 different flowers are doing moderately well, and curly parsley is barely hanging on. Everything else laughed at me. This season I'm hoping for better results. I appreciate your insight.

[@melodylamour6123]

Sorry, right after KZbin gave me another one of your videos that went into great detail about this very subject. Thank you for your effort and time it takes to make these videos for us all.

[@Gardenary]

Oh wow, go KZbin algorithm!

[@finariamoorenga6934]

The directions on seed packets/commercial starts are only relevant to an industrial farming model, where use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides is expected, and spacing is based on use of a large tractor… So, it’s really no surprise that it fails when we try to follow those directions outside those contexts.

[@crystalmichaud3716]

Don't forget to mention the soil pH level and everything. We need to feed the soil properly as well.

[@mcraw4d]

Collards, cabbages, and head lettuces put a major wrinkle in your “small” category. Swiss chard if allowed to be a perennial does as well. They may be shorter but have a large footprint. Also, if you live in a humid area with fungal problems lack of airflow can be a problem. Square foot garden is an intensive method and absolute failure in my area. Need to limit it to smaller beds that can get airflow from the sides.

[@Gardenary]

Collards and cabbage would be large plants with kale. They're some of the exceptions for leafy greens. Head lettuces can be kept smaller by harvesting the outer leaves. Same for Swiss chard. And this method worked great for me in muggy Houston, Texas! Regular pruning is the trick.

[@deanneshane3799]

can mints go with tomatoes. Ive been told mints are invasive and they take away space

[@Gardenary]

I usually grow mint in containers. I don't mind planting it with other herbs b/c I'm okay with it slowly taking over, but I typically avoid putting it in a raised bed.

[@mangoyacho]

Very eye opening indeed. Thank you!

[@liletsantacruz4532]

Thank you so much, I'm learning a lot.

[@annanguyen7107]

Where do you buy starter plants at?

[@Gardenary]

Local nurseries are great

[@Porsupollo869]

Thank you!

[@ticktock2383]

Yes study nature to succeed.

[@thatzmyart]

Nice concept, I think I will try it.

[@griceldavargas3656]

Thanks definitely want to try

[@prisminside8904]

Are you also able to help people in New Zealand?

[@Gardenary]

We have a wonderful trained garden coach in New Zealand! You can find her going through here: www.gardenary.com/garden-consultant-inquiry

[@LindaMorgan-nh3pl]

Great idea i will try it

[@debradykstra8703]

Brilliant! So why do I feel, like, duh?! 🌞

[@cathyphegley7848]

It’s called French intensive gardening.🦋

[@rxlo1015]

Excellent video 👍

[@NykkyD]

How do you grow successful gardens with limited sunlight during the warmer months because most of your yard is covered by trees?

[@Gardenary]

My back two beds, which get the least sun b/c of the wooded area, are mostly for leafy greens

[@NykkyD]

@Gardenary thank you! I'll try growing them all down below, and maybe try other things up on my deck where they will get most of the sun. I'll just have to redesign everything. 😆

[@usarebel420]

Thank you

[@marienovotna4115]

That is how it works in Amazon, tropical or other forests....

[@lindasands1433]

Good job! ❤

[@lauranyc4966]

Makes bizillion % sense !!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙏🏻💕💯

[@Geenine44]

So just like indigenous practices... 3sisters planting comes to mind.

[@lorraineelderhurst4199]

Wow book arrived in 24hrs read first couple chapters already

[@Gardenary]

Yeah! I hope you love it ❤

[@Evie170]

Yes, this method is like keeping with the saying, 'Nature abhors a vacuum.'

[@MotosAllotmentGarden]

😊

[@28tv.]

Nice Video 💕💕💕💕

[@ConstantineMiranga]

Yoooh men thanks Just i won't. to have nice garden kitchen lake yours

[@larrya3989]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@mariap.894]

Tomatillos on a trellis?? 🤔🤔🤔

[@elisetuma7145]

Grew tomatillos on my arbor, huge production!

[@fredafanning]

Like “3 sisters “ method?

[@Gardenary]

That was one of my inspirations, but intensive planting is a bit different!

[@chriswaring3783]

You have four kids.. thats the best gardening method 🤣

[@robertaj3767]

Permaculture!

[@gliceriacastillo6299]

Watching from glecious tv

[@sowertosow]

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1 KJV

[@knm7972]

I mean - it’s great that you worked it out and that you are sharing the information - but you didn’t invent poly culture/permaculture/botany…

[@Gardenary]

I didn't say I did!

[@fosterricardo7568]

364 for three years..365 is leap year..

[@PhillipMelanchthon]

There are 365 days in a non-leap year, whereas 366 days in a Leap year. This happens because it takes the earth 365.25 days to complete a revolution around the sun.

[@jaynematzkinhair8830]

Polyculture.

[@tetoles]

great video, full of content but camera man moves to much :D

[@cryptocrazy]

It’s called a food forest! Guild. Sintropic bla bla!!

[@kalyanishah17]

6 mins in amd she only talks about the 'method' without giving details, she wants you to buy her book.

[@kelliechristensen1834]

Are you kidding me? Did you actually watch the whole video?!! She gives tons of details!!! Very valuable info share in her video.

[@sa4877]

Just took much unnecessary mumbo jumbo.....

[@iamunce]

Why the hell is all the introduction required? Can't you just tell us your bloody method?

[@Gardenary]

I'm a storyteller in long-form content. We have a lot of short-form content that gets to the point if that's what you prefer!

[@marienovotna4115]

Eco system. Everything is connected and supports each other.

[@saeedawazir7015]

I did not like this messy garden

[@Gardenary]

Intensive planting isn't for everyone!