Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Interplanting, sometimes called companion planting, is a simple way to grow more food in the same space while keeping the soil covered and healthy. By understanding growth habit and timing, we can place crops together so they complement each other.
In this video I show you clear examples from my garden:
Leeks with celeriac – sharing space for a long season
Chard with French beans – chard continues once the beans finish
Carrots between lettuce – overlap while lettuce finish, then carrots take over
Florence fennel among cucumbers – fennel grows on after cucumbers finish
French beans between lettuce – after lettuce harvest, beans crop well
These five combinations illustrate the varied facets, possibilities, and advantages of closely grown and overlapping vegetables. Starting new seedlings in spaces that look hardly possible or sufficient, and using the tall growth of alliums to make use of space between lower-growing plants.
You’ll also see basil under tomatoes, and spinach transplanted around tomatoes for autumn and winter growth. These combinations show the many possibilities for close planting: overlapping harvests, follow-on crops, and using tall plants to create room for smaller ones.
🎥 Filmed 15th August by Carly Dutton-Edwards
🎵 Music: Rory Dunwoodie, @rorydinwoodiemusic IG: rorydinwoodiemusic
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Interplanting, sometimes called companion planting, is a simple way to grow more food in the same space while keeping the soil covered and healthy. By understanding growth habit and timing, we can place crops together so they complement each other.
In this video I show you clear examples from my garden:
Leeks with celeriac – sharing space for a long season
Chard with French beans – chard continues once the beans finish
Carrots between lettuce – overlap while lettuce finish, then carrots take over
Florence fennel among cucumbers – fennel grows on after cucumbers finish
French beans between lettuce – after lettuce harvest, beans crop well
These five combinations illustrate the varied facets, possibilities, and advantages of closely grown and overlapping vegetables. Starting new seedlings in spaces that look hardly possible or sufficient, and using the tall growth of alliums to make use of space between lower-growing plants.
You’ll also see basil under tomatoes, and spinach transplanted around tomatoes for autumn and winter growth. These combinations show the many possibilities for close planting: overlapping harvests, follow-on crops, and using tall plants to create room for smaller ones.
🎥 Filmed 15th August by Carly Dutton-Edwards
🎵 Music: Rory Dunwoodie, @rorydinwoodiemusic IG: rorydinwoodiemusic
🔔 Subscribe for regular no dig gardening videos: youtube.com/@CharlesDowding
💚 You can join this channel by paying a monthly fee, to support our work with helping gardeners grow better, and to receive monthly videos made only for members:
youtube.com/channel/UCB1J6siDdmhwah7q0O2WJBg/join
#nodig #companionplanting #soilhealth #growyourownfood #vegetablegardening #successionplanting #nodiggardening
