The video provides practical, actionable advice on companion planting and succession planting for fall gardens, using clear visuals and a relatable tone. The creator's expertise as a pharmacist and gardener adds credibility, and the focus on organic methods appeals to a health-conscious audience.
Summary
The video demonstrates how to set up a fall garden bed for kale and lettuce, emphasizing companion planting with onions, garlic, and herbs to deter pests. It suggests planting leaf lettuce, carrots, and radishes in succession for a continuous harvest, and advises beginners to use kale transplants while more experienced gardeners can start kale from seed indoors.
Structure
1Introduction to fall gardening with kale and lettuce.
2Explanation of companion planting benefits.
3Layout and planting strategy for a 4x4 raised bed.
4Tips for planting lettuce, carrots, radishes, and kale.
5Discussion on succession planting for continuous harvest.
6Advice on choosing kale varieties and planting methods.
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Kale & Lettuce Bed
Two to four kale plants
Lettuce planted around the edges
Green onions planted between the kale
Radishes or carrots planted in a short row
Cilantro or chives near a corner where they will not shade the lettuce
4 RAISED BED
Original caption
Fall is for salads too! We tend to think of lettuce and kale as spring garden crops, but both thrive when temperatures are cooler. In fact, lettuce especially can struggle in the summer heat, which can cause it to bolt and turn bitter. That’s why I love setting up beds like this for the fall. Kale + lettuce gives you a simple cool-season garden bed that can keep you harvesting fresh greens throughout the season. If you want to grow your own salad garden, aim for fall and early spring, when temperatures are cooler and these leafy greens are much happier. Save this bed setup for your fall garden! #greenscreen #GardenTips #VegetableGardening
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Transcript
There's still boo boo in the lettuce. So that's why you should grow it yourself this fall. Now, I want to show you the way I would set up a fall garden bed with kale and lettuce plants in it. Now, the thing that people don't realize is kale and lettuce are cool season crops. So they prefer to be grown when the temperatures are cooler outside. So below 80 degrees, you really wanna ideally grow them when the temperatures are 75 and dropping lower. They're going to thrive. That's going to be fall all the way to winter and then also early in the spring. Now I like to utilize companion planting when I'm setting up my garden bed and that's the process of using things like onions, garlic and herbs in with my green leafy vegetables. The smell of them can help to keep of the bugs away, especially early in the season. That's a really good tip if you are somebody who wants to have an organic garden and I have to use many pesticides. If you get your timing right and you companion plant, you will knock out some of the bugs that many people deal with in their garden. So this is a 4 by 4 raised bed. Now what I like to do with my companions is I like to take them and put them all around the bed. Think of them as like an army protecting everything that's in the middle of the bed. So where I have green onion, feel free to plant bulb onion or garlic. I have cilantro because cilantro also likes the cooler temperatures. But you can switch out that cilantro for dill or parsley, which are also crops or herbs that like to be grown when it's cooler outside. You do a whole barrier all around the bed of those particular crops. Now with the green onions, you can get from the grocery store, you know how you regrow them. Them out, you can get them as seeds. You can get the onion bulbs as sets and put them out, or you can get onion seeds. It's up to you how you cilantro, I would recommend that you plant from seed. Um, soak the seed for a few hours and then plant it based on on the seed packet. You would do the perimeter. Now in the middle, what I've separated things out a bit. So we've got leaf lettuce in a row right here. So you're gonna purchase lettuce from seed, it's gonna be loose leaf lettuce. You just wanna make sure it's not head lettuce. That's gonna form you get what I mean. You wanna make sure it's leaf lettuce. You're gonna sow those seeds right next to where you put your onion or your garlic. Then carrots, you're gonna do the carrots. You're gonna start the carrots from seed as well. Either get regular carrots or you can get seed tape. And if you want me to talk about that, I can talk about that in another video then. So we got those rows. And what I recommend is succession planning as well. You wanna start with maybe one side of the garden bed. You can put all of the companions around, then plant one side, wait two weeks, then plant the other side. This is gonna just ensure that you can have a continuous harvest when the time come with your lettuce. You can cut the top of the lettuce, it will keep growing. But again, I still like to succession plant so I can have crops in various stages of the growth cycle. Now, when we get to the middle, we got kale. Kale is what I'm gonna suggest for my beginners, to the nursery and get a kale transplant, a baby kale plant. Or if you're experienced enough, I would recommend that you start kale from seed inside for a few weeks before outside in the garden bed. Kale can get pretty big. You wanna make sure you're giving each kale plant about a square foot of space so it has enough space so it can grow really big. And that depends on the variety of kale. There's some varieties that gets really, really big and some that stay small. So you just wanna read what it says on the seed packet. Look at the picture that's on the seed packet. Depending on if you purchase it from seed or get the transplants. Now, here in the front is radish. Radish is a super quick growing plant. You wanna get radish as seeds as well. 30 days, you're gonna get that radish. You can put everything else out and then your radish and your lettuce are gonna be you're harvesting because they grow the fastest. That's how I would set up a garden bed. Now, the dimensions of this particular bed is 4 foot by 4 foot. If you wanted to know that, you can adjust this to pretty much any type of raised bed or in ground setup. Now, if y'all want me to do this same type of setup with containers or grow bags, let me know down below.
