Grow 500% MORE Vegetables in 5 Times LESS Space!

Growing 5-10 times more food in 5-10 times less space has been seen as impossible thanks to traditional spacing. Thanks to High Intensity spacing and gardening we can grow more in less space meaning more food for your family! Give it a try.
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[brendasmiley]

I've actually used this method this year using your Migardener seeds . I'm in zone 6 and I have harvested 3 lbs so far and haven't put a dent in the plants. Good video. I watched all winter the older videos and planned, plotted, and schemed . You are an inspiration and this method is serving me quite well.✌🌞

[debrawallace]

My grandmother was born in Europe in the late 1800's. In her late teens she went to a school that taught her how to garden and how to take different plants and graft them together. She moved to the US in her early 20's. She always had a wonderful vegetable garden and her roses planted along the side of her house were beautiful. This is the way she taught me to plant lettuce. To just scatter the seeds on the ground, not in rows. And to pick off the outer leaves as the plant grows. I have always had an abundance of lettuce! It's nice to know grandma was right!

[stephengardin]

My family has been growing leaf style greens for many, many years. Coming from Italy, we plant not only in rows but, with leaf lettuces, we plant a carpet of seeds like you would with lawn grass. In that way, you have a large area that you can continuously harvest your leaves and they produce continuously until the winter time. Over what you have just shown, one will get a higher concentration of leaves and allows it more protection from the elements and drought conditions. The major upside is that one maximises the ground on which it is planted. Rows, we reserve for plants that need more space i.e(tomatoes, peppers eggplants, etc.). Harvesting is very simple with scissors or a small paring knife leaving enough stem not to harm the plant allowing for it to regrow quickly. When the time is right you can allow a few plants to bolt and produce seeds for the following year without any discernible lessening of production for the table. We find that those 'home grown' seeds are actually better producers in the subsequent years. Try it, you'll be very pleased.

[lemonlime]

I want you to know that as the daughter of a large-scale farmer, it really makes me happy knowing people are working on better ways to grow food for our future population!

[darklegionXoX]

I would love a list of what all you did high intensity and what didn't work in high intensity!

[kenkuramoto]

HI, I plant tomatoes in high density planting the plants about 6-8 inches apart. I make my own cages so the plants grows up instead of out I use wooden stakes and then pvc pipes to keep the tomatoes to grow up. my capacity of tomatoes in an area of 20X30 foot area last year was over 1300 pounds.

[steviem]

Just stumbled upon this video and this is the way my dad's been doing it this way for years. With lettuce, he would do exactly how you do it, he'd just sprinkle the seeds into rows and he and my mom would pick the leaves and not the whole plant. They yield is amazing because that same plant just regrows the leaves that are harvested and you can get an entire seasons worth of lettuce from them. We're in southern New York, the garden is roughly 20x16 and once the lettuce starts growing we can go all the way to the end of October harvesting it. In the fall, my dad has this grass seed for a colder weather lettuce that as long as the ground isn't frozen it can grow and some years we can go to December harvesting that. The amount of money we save each year for a few packs of seed is unbelievable.

[maximilian]

I am forced to do this on a patio in California- so I've developed my own method and thought I was the only one- this is great info. My method relied on starting plants indoors and then planting them into very rich fertilized soil and keeping everything fed and watered well. I run compost buckets with worms constantly and feed in rich inputs like seaweed and coffee grounds.

[luketupper]

it's funny how I've been gardening like this my whole life. because this is how my father taught me how to garden when I was a kid. so I just thought this was how you garden. I didn't know this was called high intensity gardening. I just thought it was called gardening.

[roddyfowler]

been doing this for about forty years now. Green beans work well too. Have a massive carpet of them every year for canning.

[FireHill]

One thing worth noting is dense plantings require better soil/more water. This is part of why our large scale agriculture doesn't adopt these methods, because they don't care about soil health, they just apply chemicals to dead soils; and they can't water enough on that scale, but they would need to, because there's almost no organic matter left to hold water.

[InFltSvc]

Safe yourself a ton of time here. Bottom line make a row, put a ton of seeds in it and let it grow. That is if you live in a climate that allows you to

[austinfurgason]

Hey could you give a longer list of what vegetables and herbs are pro high density and ones that aren’t? That’d be sweet!

[txnocowboyable]

You are by far the most informative and educational gardener on YouTube. You give good explanation on the do's and don'ts of gardening and why. This is my third year container gardening and I love it. Keep up the good work. ❤

[rngnv]

You can do intensive intercropping methods like growing radishes such as De 18 Jour in between your lettuce rows using it as both a trap crop for aphids, or flea beetles. When you harvest the radishes it aerates the soil and allows water to seep in deeper down to the lettuce roots without having to heavily soak the areas.

[justsaying]

Yo Luke I've been getting into growing veggies the past couple seasons and have been using these videos to help me maximize my space (I got a little 15x15 veggie garden). I got into gardening 10 years ago growing pot for financial reasons but I'm branching out now as a hobby... I'm trying to pack as many healthy vegetable plants into my garden space as I can. Videos like this one have given me a lot of guidance, I think between you and Gary Pilarchik's channel I've figured a lot out. Cheers bro and thanks for the work you put into making content, hope you have a good harvest this year 🤙.

[petrap]

Wow! I planted both my lettuce and kale varieties just like this, intending to harvest leaves instead of the entire plants at once. I was sure I'd messed up because they are growing just as dense as in your patch, but now I think it was a good idea. I subscribed and am looking forward to more!

[wallofriogrande]

Last year I was able to do 4x10 tomatoes with 18 inch spacing. That's about as high intensity as you do. 4 is deep as you can go but you likely make it any length. You really have to manage the bottom branches early on so keep disease down. Keeping down suckers early on and allowing branching higher up helped a ton. Planting them deeper along with making mounds at the base after they established really helps with root production. I built a sort lattice grid framework out of 1inch strips of wood and brad nails. The tomatoes grew up through it and ended sitting up at the top. I only had it about 3 feet high but I could've made it higher but it was just an experiment to test dense planting. I think this year I am going to do 4 rows with Florida weaves.

[sylviavega-ortiz]

Will you please make a playlist for these Intensive Gardening videos? Thanks!

[pascalxus]

Thank you so much for adressing this issue! As a gardener, the biggest limiting factor I have is the amount of space available. My backyard is sooo tiny, it can be measured in inches. so i really need some kind of high intensity system to grow a lot of veggies in a very very small area.