Please define the following vegetable gardening terms?

**Snadger** · 02-03-2018, 06:02 PM

Originally posted by casejones View Post

Could some clearly define the following vegetable gardening terms:

1. Interval planting ...........Planting. ittle and often of the same plant
2. Intensive planting...........Planting closer together than the accepted norm
3. Companion planting.........Planting different plants alongside others that have a beneficial effect
4. Succession planting..........Following summer crops with winter crops
5. Staggered planting ...........Plant one row then the next row with each plant at the centre of the first row planting

Thanks I Advance!!!
Case Jones

OK, I'll set myself up to be shot down!

**lottie dolly** · 02-03-2018, 06:08 PM

You said it all wonerfully Snadger

**Thelma Sanders** · 02-03-2018, 06:08 PM

This is how I understand those

Interval planting is working out how long things take to grow, so once you sow your first crop, you work out when to sow the follow-on crop that you are planning. This goes hand in hand with succession planting, below.

Intensive planting is when you grow things closer together, like in square-foot gardening or equidistant from each other, rather than in old-school rows.

Companion planting is growing two or more types of vegetables (or veg and flower/herbs) that complement each other, in the same row or bed.

Succession planting can mean the same as staggered planting IMO or planting a different follow-on-crop as the previous crop is harvested.

Staggered planting is sowing and then planting the same vegetable on different dates (eg sowing a few lettuce seeds every couple of weeks) through the season so you a long period of harvest.

**veggiechicken** · 02-03-2018, 06:20 PM

I'd say that Interval, Succession and Staggered planting mean much the same thing:- resowing or planting in order to maintain a succession of crops.
Staggered could mean Snadger's Offset planting too - like a 5 on a domino, in which case it could also be Intensive planting!

The only terms I use are Succession and Companion.

**Snadger** · 02-03-2018, 06:25 PM

Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post

I'd say that Interval, Succession and Staggered planting mean much the same thing:- resowing or planting in order to maintain a succession of crops.
Staggered could mean Snadger's Offset planting too - like a 5 on a domino, in which case it could also be Intensive planting!

The only terms I use are Succession and Companion.

Two of my favourite terms are Pocket planting or Block planting.

Pocket planting IS NOT shoplifting btw!

**veggiechicken** · 02-03-2018, 06:28 PM

I like Random, myself.

**Thelma Sanders** · 02-03-2018, 06:30 PM

Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post

I like Random, myself.

That's cos it really suits you

**veggiechicken** · 02-03-2018, 06:31 PM

Awww, Thank you Thelma.

**Guest** · 02-03-2018, 09:22 PM

I tend to think of them similar to TS. I also think of intensive as getting more out of the same patch over time and it may not lay fallow at all or very briefly. Unlike farming methods where they use fallow land for it to recover. Home gardeners just bung various mulches and homemade composts on etc so they feed the soil.

**Snadger** · 03-03-2018, 09:14 AM

Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post

I like Random, myself.

Random is good too!

**nickdub** · 03-03-2018, 09:25 AM

Originally posted by casejones View Post

Could some clearly define the following vegetable gardening terms:

1. Interval planting - Sowing again, while wondering what happened to the first lot
2. Intensive planting - Putting in tons of seeds in the vain hope a little of it will show up
3. Companion planting - loads of weeds among the stuff you were trying for
4. Succession planting - a repeat of 1., several times
5. Staggered planting - a bit of extra sowing, after a few consolation drinks for the previous 4

( a lot of time on my hands, with the garden under 1' of snow and the poly-tunnel frozen solid)

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