Grow Rare Seeds | Succession Planting

With some attention to your local climate, an understanding of your plants’ life cycles and a calendar, you can enjoy a much longer harvest. Baker Creek's Shannie McCabe shares her expert tips on succession sowing to make the most from your gardening season.

[marschlosser]

For us, succession gardening is old school. I thought it was for everyone! one thing out, new thing in. Of course, I would have more than beans in around that corn. Once pole beans bloom, we would take a big picking from them then sew turnips. Even if all the corn was picked, it stayed so the beans could grow. Under them, squash or pumpkins. Bush beans also do well early on under sweet corn, or peanuts. by the time the beans or goobers need the light, the stalks are mulch or fodder. Mind, a good mulch is best to keep fertility going. If using leaves, then by summer, you can use a shovel to punch a line in them to plant seeds like beans or radishes, and so on. I live in zone 9A, Arizona, and mesquite is a major plus for the garden and has been for thousands of years here.

[greg]

Shannie McCabe is a wealth of ideas and inspiration, love her.

[rai]

As a companion gardener, I have to add that interplanting (a/k/a companion planting) is about more than just space needs and timing, but rather the countless benefits that adjacent plants can provide for each other - from soil amendment, to natural pest management, to shade, flavor enhancement and so much more! I hope its okay I shared this without taking away from how very informative your video is! 💫🌱

[SteadfastTrailFarm]

Yes!! My 3rd year into seriously gardening I plant year round! I haven't even began to harvest my tomatoes yet and I am planning my fall garden! Last year I had greens through the winter here in Virginia 7a!

[jerricroft]

The best Market Gardener I know of on succession planting is Charles Dowding

[eswaribalan]

Amaranth, nothing like this marvelous green...

[ddobrien]

_Ok, I think I've got it! Quite a few other YT channels kinda screw-up this topic_ 🤣
*Staggered Planting* is successively sowing seeds (or transplanting) the same crop over time and in different locations...leading to continuous harvests.
*Succession Planting* is having seeds or starts ready to plant as soon as a crop is harvested in a specific location, usually, a different crop...leading to little time/space wasted.

[minagica]

Interplanting is fantastic for filling out the space to prevent weeds from getting in too!!!

[evega]

I really like these videos!! Thank you!!

[Just-Nikki]

I just love your energy and excitement Shannie 💚
Didn’t know to plant deeper in summer. Good information 👍

[greenkeeper]

Shannie, I love your enthusiasm and I was just thinking that same thought about how some gardeners plant just at the beginning and how there must be something wrong with me because of planting all season to the bitter end. Not trying to be a know it all, but Mr Coleman lives the next town over and we are on the Downeast Coast of Maine so we get a milder fall than Northern Maine because the proximity of the ocean and fact that we are hundreds of miles south.

[grekahg]

Bought my first Rare Seeds this year and just found you here on YouTube! Thank you for the wonderful information here with succession planting, as well as intercrop plantings, good idea!

[lindaarnold]

These were excellent tips! I’m from Maine and our season is much shorter than some areas so succession planting is a great way to get a higher yield and more from the garden in our short season. Thank you for sharing your tips!

[whitetailcqb]

Well done massive amounts of knowledge crammed in this video

[nygardenguru]

Another great pep talk. And the hair looks good too

[ross]

Dang Shannie...a GREAT and very informative video - thank you! Stay safe - be well.

[Just-Nikki]

I bought a book by Niki Jabbour called THE YEAR ROUND VEGETABLE GARDENER. She is in Canada. I figured if she could do it there, I could in Missouri. It’s an excellent book for anyone interested 😀 I love my Clydes garden planner!

[lunkerpond]

Great video Shannie, keep them coming!

[jerricroft]

Eliot Coleman is using portable greenhouses for his succession farming and is quite good at growing winter vegetables with no heat.

[TheVigilantStewards]

Thanks for doing these videos and helping us to know what we want to buy and learn more about how to deal with our region... North Texas is shortly after winter thaw it's no water and burning hot. Fall is probably more stable here. I love Clyde's wish they had some more for other exotics or plant families. We just moved and I need to get my raised beds built for fall