Why I Am NOT Interplanting Vegetables This Year

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.

How To Interplant Garlic: https://youtu.be/Kjnfx9pC5yY?si=U4U25DOuaAQNC8oo
How To Interplant Onions: https://youtu.be/Op65J0j0hnw?si=KCeS76aL3ofB5UsP
How To Interplant Herbs: https://youtu.be/oSS_ND9XgI8?si=vEvAq2Lt5eeCJ6mr

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What’s growing on gardeners on today’s 2-minute Garden tip I’m going to show you all why I am not interplanting onions and garlic with any of my other crops this season in the past I showed you how to interplant aliums onions garlic shallots and leaks throughout your garden especially intermixed with

Pest susceptible plants like peppers tomatoes eggplant cucumbers and squash and that has several benefits number one the scent of the aliam family of plants they have an insect repellent smell which I’ve really found to be very effective and number two it also can help maximize space efficiency in your

Garden instead of dedicating a whole garden bed to one single species by intermixing them they can often cohabitate so you can squeeze more plants into a small area and to be completely honest with you I found this technique to be extremely effective it does appear that the aliums really do

Repel pests and I was genu able to fit more food into a smaller footprint so why am I not doing it this year this year I’m keeping my onions and garlic separate and I’m dedicating space to them these are all of my garlic plants as you can see they have their own plot

In this raised bed and then I isolated my onions and shallots to these smaller narrower raised beds these are a whole bunch of seed grown onions and in these beds right here these two I just planted 130 onion sets so they haven’t really started to break ground yet you you can

See one that is visible right there but overwhelmingly they haven’t Broken Ground yet they probably will in about 2 weeks despite the effectiveness of this technique I’m abandoning it this season for two reasons number one it kind of messed up my harvests not because there was anything wrong with the technique

But because I messed up you see what would happen was in the spring the aliums would be nice and Tall but then the peppers and tomatoes that I would interplant would eventually grow over on top of the aliums and I would forget the aliums were there in the 2 years that I

Did this interplanting technique I would forget to harvest my onions and shallots and then they would get overmature and they would kind of start breaking apart and I would lose onion and shallot quality and that’s not what I want I simply wasn’t able to stay on top of

Things because by interplanting I kind of just forgot they were there the second reason is I’m having space efficiency problems because the aliums have such longer Harvest Windows than the other plants so this bed right here here was where I grew my determinate Tomatoes last year and I yanked them out

In August but I still have a ton of leaks growing in here you can see where the rows were that I planted my leaks and in between that is where I used to have my tomato plants so instead of having this big raised bed available for

Planting I still have all of these leaks lagging behind same thing with this hoop house right here this is where I planted my peppers last year and I intermixed them with bunching onions and everything did fantastic last year but the problem is my bunching onions are still here and

Growing great and as you can see I have all of this space that I can’t really use because the bunching onions are still in this place so because my garden is so small I’m having issues with bed turnover because one crop is greatly outlasting the other so while interplanting is a fantastic technique

You have to be very disciplined to do this you have to remember that all of those plants are growing underneath other plants so you need to harvest them and the proper window and you also need to be careful not to over plant your aliums like I did bed management is very

Important if you’re growing in a confined space and if you work a full-time job like I do you may not always be on top of your Harvest if you’re disciplined and you plan things out properly it is a wonderful space- saving pest repelling technique but if

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