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I still have Snapdragons, one Calendula, garlic, rosemary, red onions, and lavendar plants in my garden in north central Oklahoma, zone 7 a/b
I dug up all of my outdoor garden. It took hours separating the plants from each other to replant it so I can safely place it in my heated greenhouse. My chickens got a huge amount of leaves and stems etc. I still have two bowls full of radishes, carrots, kale and turnips seedlings in water that I have to transplant but we’re going to get down to 2 degrees in a few days so I’m making sure they’ll survive.
Definitely some interesting stuff in this one. A few thoughts…
Okra is a bit more than just a volunteer in my garden. I have used okra volunteers that way, but it can be numerous enough to be appropriately considered a weed and these days I'm a bit more careful about removing overgrown pods before they release seed.
Spacing for row crops in the agricultural industry is about a bit more than just wheel spacing on a tractor, though that does matter in many cases. Having a closed canopy is important for soil conservation and weed management. That closed canopy also represents the point at which you have maximized the utilization of sunlight. In no-till systems, the closed canopy can be thought of as augmenting or replacing the debris from last season's crop with a living mulch.
One crop I rarely see anyone trellis that I do trellis is sweet potatoes. Twining is bred out of commercial varieties, so they don't naturally climb. They can be trained up a trellis, though, and it saves a lot of space to grow them that way, as well as showing off all those morning glory flowers.
Thank you for continuing to promote deep mulch as we learned from Ruth Stout. It's been a game changer for me, allowing my to Finally have a productive garden. However, I must irrigate as well because of my dry climates. I use that tomato method in my summer (zone 6) garden. But in my winter (zone 9) garden, I lined our block wall with cattle panels and tied them to that. Soon, I'll have ripe, garden tomatoes in January. I do mulch and close planting. I like to plant roots (beets, turnips, carrots, onions, garlic, etc) and leaves (greens, celery, flowers, and herbs) in front of the climbing fruits (cucumbers, climbing zuch, peppers, beans, tomatoes). All of these beds are in between low-pruned fruit trees which also love the deep mulch. I don't let the cabbages (broccoli, cauliflower, kale, chard, kohlrabi) get that big around but pluck the outer leaves like cut and come again greens. I only plant what I like now. Almost every day, I use carrots, celery, onions, garlic, beans, potatoes/sweet potatoes, and greens in my cooking, so I plant a lot of those. Then, I plant lots of my favorite vitamin plants aka climbing fruits, roots, and leaves for nutrition and flavor. Some day, I hope to get all my food from my garden. But if not, I will enjoy gardening this way come what may. Thank you again for your fun, friendly, informative videos.