Why More Pro Growers Don’t Companion Plant + Do Farmers Markets Make Sense?

[@feralkevin]

I love going to the farmer's market as a vendor. It may not be the best for sales, but it's the highlight of my week. Talking to folks about plants, food, and all manner of subjects!

[@anniinglucksdorf960]

I feel like that is one of the actual benefits of going to markets: making an appearance in the region and getting to know people and preferences of locals. And for oneself: getting out there and socialise.

[@hoosierpioneer]

Love my customers! So many whose names I don't know, yet I have learned so much about their lives, likes and dislikes, their knowledge has helped me out many times. I worry when one doesn't show up!

[@holberthomestead]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Love the channel.

[@draganarc0131]

Happy to hear the truth behind farmers markets. So many make it out to be sunshine and roses. Thank you for the honesty and reality.

[@Nurse_Lucy]

this ihas nothing to do with the content of this video, but I'm watching this on a large screen for the first time and am just now noticing how dark blue your eyes are. They are almost teal. Very pretty. hope kiddo has them too

[@kayerhoads3444]

Funny, I just commented on Jesse's eyes to my daughter as we watched this podcast today. Nice eyes, Jesse, but your content is what makes my day!!! Thank you!

[@brokenmeats5928]

I love ALL No-Till Growers videos!

[@TheDhammaHub]

Some good news: in northern Germany there is still plenty of insects on my windshield... so much so that in some recent summers I had to stop multiple times to wipe them off

[@lksf9820]

You stole them all? You bastards!

[@ajb.822]

In northern WI, too. Anywhere it's not full of huge, hedge less monoculture fields &/or subdivisions, and I'm guessing also related to fields or neighborhoods sprayed with insecticides.. . Some neighborhoods here do for mosquitoes and ticks once a year. Idk what else that spray affects.

[@anniinglucksdorf960]

Where in northern Germany are you located? I am from Schleswig-Holstein and I remember way more insects when I was young, sadly.

[@TheDhammaHub]

@@anniinglucksdorf960 Very close to the ex-border in Herrnburg!

[@t4cchi]

the channel logo would make a good tat

[@lexithompson3030]

Can you do an episode on the Tariffs and what to expect and plan for? I know my flower farm is worried.

[@MovingBlanketStudio]

I love all the topics you cover crop.

[@margezubler5020]

Try the book “Plant Partners”. Science-based with research papers referenced.

[@classicrocklover5615]

I love this podcast! ❤

[@scottbaruth9041]

Yeah, my parents moved all over the country till I hit 7th grade. I don't know about accents, but maybe the reason we became market gardeners is because we just wanted to finally put down some roots.

[@ianzeglin5604]

At this point I feel very strongly that interplanting is way more possible on a 4 foot width production bed as opposed to the standard 30in bed. 30in just feels so tight to try and squeeze crop and beneficial in, while the 4ft beds seem to create just enough room for more interplanting options.

[@austintrees]

Car aerodynamics are much different, I am a truck driver... I can promise you, our big flat windshields catch the bugs you're missing, go get yourself an old vehicle if you miss the bugs.

[@bradliston8990]

This year I had a marigold area that kinda spread a bit more than I would have liked it. But I learned that it is VERY good at stopping my yard from getting into the garden. I'm having thoughts that this year I'll have a hedge row of marigolds to line that part of my yarden boarder. Maybe even shape them up like a box wood on the lawn side a bit.

[@hoosierpioneer]

I'm borrowing this idea! Been fighting the lawn for years! Want to make a chicken moat when I can afford supplies too.

[@JohnJude-dp6ed]

Spent my life in Kentucky and Ohio and Iowa love them voices of the Kentucky Ladies the most! You should hear Iowa folk singers trying Bluegrass with no accent " Ha ha haw ha haw 😂

[@lizflores4142]

The psychological phenomenon of changing accents is called "code-switching" ... enjoy the rabbit hole, I did lol

[@ZaraThustra-w2n]

Ask Kamala and Hillary all about that. It's cringe and gross, especially when politicians do it.

[@strawberryfuntime]

@@ZaraThustra-w2nstop being so aggressive. Nobody brought up politics here.

[@ZaraThustra-w2n]

@@strawberryfuntime Aggressive? It was a relevant joke! I voted for Kamala. Does that make you feel better? I also voted for Hillary, but they both are code-switchers to the 10th degree! ~ chillax!

[@FarmerCee]

@@ZaraThustra-w2nit’s a psychological response that is a response to oppression. Clearly you haven’t had been forced to assimilate so good for you! Your privilege has protected you. Not everyone has such protection. Black folks like myself have done it to survive in a white male dominated society. I don’t do it anymore because I no longer care if others are uncomfortable with me being a full, whole self. And Hillary didn’t code-switch. She engaged in culture- appropriation. There is a difference.

[@elisiabarber7541]

Or mirroring in sociology- the unconscious drive to fit in with the in-group as a protective mechanism and not get kicked out of a community

[@KP-jv1hy]

I use build a soil mustard meel to kill root knot nematodes. I have had success even with a single application. I water it all in after mixing it in really nice and deep with dehydrated sea water or sea90 is the one I use and microbes. I use fermented plant extracts and also rootwise. I've used LABS by itself and also another company called urb natural. I've had mad success

[@abydosianchulac2]

Did you speed up the theme song by around 5-10%? The vibrato sounded strangely urgent today. Another element that impacts accent acquisition is closer to what you mention, and that's whether you consciously or unconsciously want to belong to the group with the accent. The more one wants to fit in with this new community, the more quickly one often acquired elements of that accent. And it's not just vowel sounds and such: my sister pronounces her words the same after living in the UK for 6 years as she did before, but the cadence of her voice is much more English than before.

[@MarkDurbin]

Getting the tattoo done at the weekend ;)

[@donisenberg3032]

I made all my beds 55’ so that I can use 50’ frost and insect covers and still have flowers at both ends of the beds

[@anniinglucksdorf960]

I thought about doing the same on the ends of beds. How does that work for you? Does it impact your workflow?

[@ardenthebibliophile]

I grew up in the Midwest and live in New Jersey currently. I definitely find a small jersey accent creeping in when ordering from the local pizzeria or talking to someone else who has a very strong accent.

[@mococlimbing]

Hi. Im into market gardening in spain this year and im very thankfull for your book and videos man. Every podcast is even better and so interesting. Keep on.

[@emkn1479]

Any recommendations for what to plant with asparagus? (Not strawberries…that’s all I see online) I just moved most of our plants and so have some space and loose soil to work with. A perennial ground cover would be swell.

[@heidiroycroft9465]

I’ve planted parsley with my asparagus and both are doing well. I read that parsley helps deter asparagus beetles.

[@ursamajor1936]

I grow perennial oregano and rosemary with my asparagus and the occasional pumpkin plant.

[@emkn1479]

@@ursamajor1936 good to know, thanks. I considered oregano but thought that the near complete shade cast by the ferns might cause an issue eventually. But I’m willing to try it. I was also thinking of direct seeding lobelia or another flowering and reseeding annual that can handle varying levels of sun. It might help to suppress weeds and offer something to the pollinators. I also already have volunteer nasturtium seeds everywhere… we’ll see how they do in that spot.

[@ursamajor1936]

@emkn1479 I too am trying to work in more flowering plants for pollinators. Bumble bees love the oregano.

[@anissaferringer4965]

On the topic of accents: I have heard that people are more innately discriminatory against foreign accents than different skin color. I wonder if that's behind adopting the local accent.

[@ajb.822]

Idk. I heard years ago it was related to how empathetic one was, and women are more likely to start to adopt an accent fairly quickly. I am one such, and that has incl. even accents or languages I dislike/find annoying sounding, and nothing to do with wether or not I was attracted or the opposite to the culture or etc. of the ppl group. For ex., I basically hate the German accent and sound of the language, and tho I am mostly German, am much more drawn to the British isles, the Mediterranean/Italy/Spain and the Americas, and love the sound of Russian and Australian language/accents the most. Yet, after binge watching Hogan's heroes while sick several years ago, I was finding myself thinking and speaking w the accent and the few German words I knew ! ( and hating the sound of the language less).

[@laughingowl2]

Where do I get the yard signs? Done got the tattoo...

[@KokoraLife]

Great question! 🌿 Thanks for your thoughts.

[@ironmaiden3751]

A tattoo! 😆😆😆 I caught that! Yer funny.

[@brianweingartner619]

Growing up in Arizona & New Mexico, I didn't consider myself to have an "accent" (probably similar to that Colorado white person culture) until I was in Germany and they could hear my Ami accent when speaking German.

[@maryhysong]

I have found sweet alyssum harbors and encourages leaf hoppers☹

[@williambrown9341]

Thx, cause I 've planned to eventually put some alyssum to give a try at the control of two-spotted spider mites on tomatoes (yet, I don't think I have to deal much with that pest, but could be). And for marigold, I rode (from research papier) that African marigold is kind or very susceptible to the two-spotted spider mites ; so I could be thinking to stop planting them around tomatoes, as it is usually advised

[@TheEwarts]

So what tatt would be appropriate to promote the show?

[@williambrown9341]

A baby pepper plant, in its hill-shaped clod

[@Haystacktn]

Eastern Kentucky is Appalachia

[@dorcasrodriguez2901]

❤❤❤

[@elizabethhuff2750]

“Aliens, all the time, aliens…” 😂

[@hoosierpioneer]

Illegal ones, or outer space ones? I guess outer space ones ARE illegals too!

[@TheRoulette77]

No-Till logo ......NECK TATS LETS GO !!!! i hear ladies are gettin it as a back stamp...lol

[@desert_van]

'Regeneration of the Nerds'

[@brycekirby1567]

Every nerd knows of Terry Gross

[@ursamajor1936]

Your accent sounds like classic midwesterner.

[@johncarter1150]

When you can sell $3000.00 in 4 hours, Ill be at the Market!

[@hoosierpioneer]

Not only do you need a busy market, but self promotion on social media really helps.

[@lksf9820]

There are far more companion planting myths than there are factual evidence based successes, that's maybe the problem. You've highlighted two, but there are entire books written on the subject, most of which had no scientific basis at all.

[@douellette7960]

Sure, I agree. Almost all anecdotal. It makes for a great story and we humans love that, and it all sort of makes sense. It's satisfying to believe that 2 plants of diff species will 'help' one another somehow.

[@margezubler5020]

Try the book “Plant Partners”. All science based. Research papers are referenced in an appendix.

[@rachellemazar7374]

I hope Jennifer survives🤣

[@calebfast8088]

0:51 I see my comment! I win! Lol

[@BicycleFrontier]

I started seeing you content popping up on TT platform and at first I thought it was you posing it but then I looked and seen about a dozen rip-off accounts. I imagine your aware of it already but if not here I am telling you, you might have someone pretending to be you. If you have an official TT account I'd love to follow it, for now I have unfollowed the one that look like an imposter to me.

[@aenorist2431]

Lets be real - most companion planting is made up and has no evidence behind it for benefits. You are just making a messy, inefficient garden which pros can't do.

[@ZaraThustra-w2n]

Facts. I think Jesse has mentioned this before.

[@ajb.822]

I don't know how much of it is truly "made up" but yeah, I am very dubious of most of it now. In particular, if it's given without contact or reasoning etc. , or at least some detail, such as " no known potential reason why, but my beets always grew better when amongst the cucumbers" for ex. ( made that one up). BC for some, it was prob. due to shade, or water needs or something, while others it's much more serious as in the case of allopathic plants being esp. detrimental to certain others, while some may be able to handle them fine. If that knowledge is out there, it needs to be incl., for us to make a truly informed decision. To know if, say, the corn actually SHOULD be 15 ft. away, or if it's just a case of shade and you can work around that issue in other ways On that, most don't mention how close is close, and how far those which "dislike" each other, need to be ! Then, as Charles Dowding I think has mentioned (or maybe it was Jesse), some of these were mostly true, or a possible issue, when on a larger scale/ monoculture type setting.

[@douellette7960]

Almost all anecdotal accounts of course. It all makes for a great story and we humans love that. We want it to be true, so of course it is right? It's satisfying to believe that 2 plants of diff species will 'help' one another somehow.