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1. Mixed Vegetable Gardening
Abundant garden by Garden Buzz
What is mixed Contents
vegetable gardening?
Mixed vegetable gardening is an example Introduction & overview 2
of a polyculture. The word means Table of plants in layers 3
growing lots of different types of plants So how does a poly-culture work? 4
together. The growing mix in a
Choosing your plants 4
polyculture can include vegetables, herbs,
Preparing the ground 5
flowers and even fruit. People have used
this approach all over the world for Planting 5
hundreds of years, often with great Tending the crops 6
success. Examples include the English Harvesting! 9
Cottage Garden, Caribbean kitchen After the harvest 10
gardens or the allotments of Bangladeshi Further information 11
communities in London.
2. How does it differ from
other forms of gardening?
In a conventional vegetable garden,
each type is planted in rows or
patches. Usually similar species are
grouped together, such as brassicas,
beans and peas and so on. Plants of
the same or similar species compete
for the same nutrients, and are an
attractive habitat for pests of that
plant. Usually, the patches are
rotated every year to prevent the
build-up of pests and diseases and so
as not to deplete the soil of
nutrients.
A feast in the making!
By contrast, in mixed cropping a large
number of different vegetables are grown
together in the same space. A well-chosen
What does it look like?
combination can result in less competition • Different layers above and below ground –
for nutrients, and other beneficial Similar to a woodland or a forest garden but
relationships between the different plants on a much smaller scale, the mixed
mean that plants are healthier. vegetable garden has a canopy, understorey,
groundcover, roots and even climbers. This
Some benefits of mixed way, plants occupy different spaces or
vegetable cropping: niches above and below ground.
• Development over time – Early ground
• Better use of space - a lot of food is cover plants give way to slower growing,
produced and many types of vegetables can later crops.
be grown in the same space over a longer
• Plants from different families – Genetic
time.
diversity prevents build-up of pests and
• Fewer pests and diseases - the different nutrient depletion.
colours, shapes, textures and scents of the
• Diversity of leaf shape, colour, texture and
leaves confuse pests, and diseases can't
scent – this is the traditional ayurvedic
spread as easily from one plant to the next.
approach to mixing vegetables for plant
• Less weeding - there is no space and no light health. Pests use their sense of sight and
on the ground, so weeds can't germinate. smell to find their food plants. If there are
• Less need for watering - greater soil no obvious large patches of similar looking
coverage means less evaporation. or smelling plants, they will find it harder to
find their favourite food.
2 Mixed Vegetable Gardening
3. Table 1: Some plants that can be grown in different layers of the polyculture
Layer Brassicas Legumes Allium Spinach Composite Umbellifers Cucurbite Nightshades Others
(cabbage (pea (onion (daisy (carrot (squash
family) family) family) family) family) family)
Canopy Cabbage Broad Leek Amaranth Sunflowers Lovage Tomato Sweetcorn
Cauliflower beans
Broccoli Runner
Kale beans
Peas
Climber Runner Cucumber Nasturtium
beans Small squashes
Understorey Pak Choi Dwarf Chives Spinach Lettuce Coriander Claytonia
Kohlrabi beans Onions Chard Marigold Fennel (Miner's
Chickpeas Garlic Dill lettuce)
Ground Rocket fenugreek Amaranth Young Squash Buckwheat
cover Mustard lettuce (late crop)
(planted Landcress Lambs
early) Oriental lettuce
greens
Root crop Radish Onion Beetroot Carrot Potato
Turnip Garlic Parsnip
Spring onion
Plants shown in italics are good to plant along Other crops may be possible too – these are just a few examples.
the edge as well, to protect the patch from pests. Feel free to experiment! Write successes on here - and please let us know.
4. So how does a Is this companion planting?
polyculture work? Companion planting has been used by gardeners for
a long while. Plants that are known to get on well
together are combined in the same bed. There are
It’s this simple: some tried and tested combinations, such as onions,
1. Choosing your plants carrots and lettuce, or spinach, onions and brassicas.
2. Preparing the ground Plants that are known not to get on are called
antagonists and planted in different beds. Alliums
3. Planting seeds (onion and garlic) and legumes (beans and peas) are
and seedlings a well-known example.
4. Tending the crops More examples of companions and antagonists
5. Harvesting! can be found on
www.the-gardeners-calendar.co.uk/
Starting a mixed Companion_Planting/
vegetable garden companiontables.asp
If you have your own good method In literature the “three sisters” are often cited as a
of growing vegetables, don't stop it classic combination used in the Americas, but there
all at once to try mixed vegetable are differing reports about their success in the UK
gardening. Try it out in a small and Europe, and even differing opinions on what
area first and see how well it does. plants actually constitute the three sisters. Maybe
If it works well, you can increase this could be another experiment for the future!
the area next year, or you can The kind of polyculture presented in this booklet is
spend further time adjusting your different in that some antagonists can be grown in
methods and plant mixture. the same bed, as long as there are some other plants
in between. Of course it makes sense to choose the
spots of antagonists so they don't clash with each
1) Choosing and other unnecessarily!
combining your plants
There are different approaches you can take You can also design your own plant
when developing a polyculture. You can start combination by going through the following
off with a tried and tested mix of plants like questions:
the one in this booklet. Most likely you will
still find that you can improve on it as your • What do you like eating?
understanding of the method deepens. • Are there any obvious incompatibilities?
Alternatively, you can start a mixed vegetable • Do you have a good mixture of layers and
patch simply by planting everything you families? (See table 1 on page 3)
like, observe what does well together and
what doesn't, then refine your mixes and • Do you have a good spread of early, mid-
methods over time. season and late crops? (Table 2 on page 9)
4 Mixed Vegetable Gardening
5. Or you can design a polyculture around one
or two crops that you want a lot of, choosing
other plants that support your main crop or
at least don't set it back in its growth.
The polyculture introduced in this booklet
produces mainly leaf and root crops. You can
also develop combinations around other crops
such as tomatoes, squashes or potatoes.
Materials needed:
Seeds
Seedlings - grown indoors
in advance of planting out
Compost
Fine mulch - well rotted leaf mould is
ideal; keeps moisture and adds fertility Planting the seedlings
Wood ash, seaweed, rock dust - provide
vital plant minerals 3) Planting
The best time to plant your polyculture in the
Liquid manures - another way to provide
open is after the frost has passed, around mid-
nutrients throughout the season May for most of Britain. Greenhouse
Tools for digging, planting and polycultures can be started earlier, and some
harvesting hardy plants like onions or broad beans could
be pre-sown in the same patch.
2) Preparing the ground Starting off seedlings
Start off seedlings in the house, greenhouse or
Prepare the soil as you would for a normal
a cold frame, from March onwards.
vegetable patch. The more fertile the soil is,
the less preparation is needed. Dig the area Some vegetables such as garlic and onion sets
over, unless you are working with no-dig beds can be planted in late autumn or early spring.
of course! Add compost (ideally in late All other seedlings are best planted after the
autumn), then till the soil with a rake in frost has passed. In most of Britian this will
spring. On a very acidic soil you can add some be in early to mid-May. Make sure you harden
lime as well. It's beneficial to the soil to avoid them off for a few days before finally planting
treading on it. If the width of the beds is less them out.
than 1.5m the centre can be reached without If you are planting in a greenhouse or
treading on the soil. polytunnel, you can extend the growing
season further by starting earlier and
harvesting later.
www.permaculture.org.uk/mixedveg 5
6. Planting seedlings 4) Tending the crops
In fertile and fine soil, plant strong, healthy Covering the soil
seedlings of cabbages, beans etc. at their
normal spacing. Onion sets and garlic bulbs Once everything is planted, sprinkle ash, rock
can be planted along the edge of the beds, at dust or sea weed powder on top as fertiliser.
4-6 inch intervals, and some scattered Cover with enough topsoil or compost to
throughout the bed. cover all seeds and fertiliser. Then add a thin
cover of mulch, taking care not to cover the
Sowing seeds seedlings. The mulch prevents both the
drying out of the soil and compaction in
At the same time as planting out your
heavy rainfall.
seedlings, plant all the
crops you are planning
to grow from seed.
• Large seeds first:
peas and beans
planted at their
usual spacing.
• Medium-sized seeds:
beet, spinach, chard,
radish scattered or
planted in clumps.
You can do the same
with carrots and
other root crops.
• Small seeds: Sow
lettuce, onion,
A mulch of leaves is applied on top of the broadcast seeds,
carrot, coriander and between the planted seedlings
so on, each of them
individually and thinly spread over the bed. Water well, and stand back to admire your
• Ground cover: Sow mustard or rocket, work. Your mixed vegetable bed is complete –
all you have to do from now on is harvest!
buckwheat, fenugreek (at least two different
families) thickly at the end
What about slugs?
Companion plants In Britain, this is the cry of every gardener.
Marigolds, basil, comfrey, wormwood or Unfortunately this method is not slug-proof,
other aromatic plants and flowers can be so we recommend you take the same measures
sown or planted around the edge of the bed. against the slimy blighters as in the rest of
your garden. Crushed egg-shell defences or
table-legs in pots of water for example.
6 Mixed Vegetable Gardening
7. Looking after the mixed
vegetable garden
One week after sowing, mustard, radish,
fenugreek and onion bulbs have started to
germinate. The pre-grown seedlings have also
established themselves.
If you have achieved a very dense ground cover
you can be quite drastic with your thinning,
even using garden shears!
Six weeks after sowing, production is
increasing and there is no bare soil. Broad
Day 7: A first flush of growth is starting leaf mustard, coriander and lettuce can be
to cover the ground harvested, along with the first radishes. The
After 3 weeks all vegetables have germinated. faster growing leaf crops can be picked to
A dense cover will have spread over the make space for the slower, longer living ones.
ground and you can start picking leaves for
salad.
Lettuces and other greens ready for thinning
Day 21: All the ground is now covered.
After a few months, a lot of the ground cover
All the ground cover plants (mustard, will have been harvested and eaten. You will
fenugreek, buckwheat) are good salad crops. now have fewer but larger plants. You can
They can all be picked over the space of 2-3 keep the cropping going all the way to late
weeks, except for a few plants to save your October or November, and even have some
own seed from. overwintering crops.
www.permaculture.org.uk/mixedveg 7
8. Gaps in groundcover can be filled with mulch,
The mixed vegetable plot should be easy to in this case with straw
maintain. The dense planting and the layer
of mulch help conserve moisture and keep
down weeds, so the need for watering and
weeding is minimised.
The maintenance of the mixed vegetable bed
can be compared to that of a woodland or a
forest garden. Always thin the ground cover
and early crops when the later crops need more
space, and always try to maintain a “canopy” of
leaves to give no chance to the weeds.
4 months: The initial groundcover has gone and Understorey of ruby chard and onions
longer lasting crops have closed the canopy under a "canopy" of broad beans
Mixed Vegetable Gardening
8
9. 5) Harvest!
So all you have to really do is
harvest. If you don't harvest, the
plants will grow too densely, go
“leggy” with tall, thin stalks and
small leaves. This means that they
will loose productivity and run to
seed early. So you have to make
sure that you always pick enough
to give other plants a chance to
come through. The space left by a
harvested plant will be quickly
taken up by its neighbours. This
way, there is never any empty space
or bare soil.
Photo: Mark Forman
Table 2: Harvesting calendar
These timescales are approximate - times vary depending on local conditions
Likely Season Time after sowing Plants that can be harvested (examples)
Spring 2-3 weeks Mustard greens
1 month Mustard greens, Fenugreek, Buckwheat greens,
Chinese mustard
2 months Radish, Broadleaf mustard, Lettuce, Chinese
mustard
Summer 3 months Radish, Broadleaf mustard, Lettuce, Chard,
Coriander leaves, Kohlrabi, Turnip, Beetroot
4 months Broadleaf mustard, Lettuce, Chard, Coriander
leaves, Kohlrabi, Turnip, Beetroot, Carrot,
Coriander, Peas, Chinese Cabbage, Kale
5 months Chard, Carrots, Peas, Beans Broad beans, Kale,
Autumn Cabbage, Coriander seed etc.
6 months Chard, Cauliflower, Carrots, Parsnips, Peas, Beans,
Broad beans, kale, Cabbage, Onions, Garlic etc.
7 months + Cabbage, Sprouts, Garlic, Leek, Broccoli
www.permaculture.org.uk/mixedveg 9
10. After harvesting
Growers’ experience:
After everything has been picked, you can
Roz Brown, Mid-Wales Permaculture Network:
prepare the bed for the next season, using
your usual dig or no-dig method. You can I am now in my third year of working this way,
and I can recommend it as low input, high yield,
follow up with a different crop or plant
and often surprising. For the first time in four
mixture. Alternatively you can sow a crop of
seasons, I was able to grow squash in abundance,
green manure, or leave the area fallow with a plus my first decent crop of Cherokee beans. The
big mulch. only thing I did differently was to grow them
together with maize. These ‘3 sisters’ were very
How does your garden grow? happy together.
There is still much to learn about mixed My other favourite addition to a mixed bed is
vegetable gardens, and we would like to rocket as an alternative to white mustard – does
gather and share your experiences. We want the same job, but unlike mustard makes great
to learn from both success and failure. If you pesto! My other discovery this year was Chinese
have found a plant combination or technique celery in a polyculture – Celery Leaf as a herb is
that really works for you, we would love to also good in this situation. For me the main
benefits of mixed plantings are their low
hear about it. We plan to update this booklet
maintenance and a huge variety of produce from
with new ideas and plant combinations, so a small area to make meals more interesting!
send us your findings, top-tips and photos.
Author’s note: When we were writing
the chapter on polyveg for
We started using the Farmers' Handbook
polycultures in Nepal in Jakob, the book's designer,
around 1992, just after had taken a photo from
I'd seen Masanubo right inside a polyveg at
Fukuoka's farm in Japan ground level, and it
and Ianto Evans' lovely looked just like a natural
polyculture beds in forest, or like a Forest
Oregon, USA. Garden. That was
It made sense, and made another crucial point, to
more sense when I tried it see the parallel with
on another farm in much larger systems but
Jajarkot, and then at with the same pattern, a
Sunrise Farm in template. Within that
Kathmandu. pattern, all we have to
No-till, mulch, green work out are the details -
manures; diversity in leaf shape, texture, colour what plant associations work best according to our
and plant scent; diversity in root depth and width, local climate/microclimate and site conditions.
plant height - so much diversity! The villagers This will depend on the collection of many people's
loved it - so many vegetables to choose from, and experience and some focussed research.
high output but low input. Chris Evans, Nepal & South Wales
10 Mixed Vegetable Gardening
11. Photographs
Unless otherwise
stated all the photos
in this booklet are
by Chris Evans.
Resources
and inspiration
The Farmer’s
Handbook,
Permaculture
Research Institute of
Australia
Gaia's Garden, Toby
Hemmenway
The One-straw
Revolution, Masanubo Fukuoka
Thanks
...to all the people who have helped put this booklet
More copies of this booklet together. This booklet is an adaptation of the “Polyveg”
Download a free PDF in colour (or in chapter of the Farmers Handbook by Chris Evans. The text
B&W for cheaper printing) from: was revised by Tomas Remiarz, and designed with Stig.
www.permaculture.org.uk/mixedveg Thanks for helpful suggestions from Roz Brown, Sally
Please share this booklet with friends. Cunningham, Ian Fitzpatrick, and Naomi van der Velden.
Permaculture Permaculture Association
Mixed vegetable planting and other forms of This booklet is part of the ongoing work of the
polyculture are good examples of permaculture, Research Working Group of the Permaculture
which seeks to maximise multiple yields while Association. For more information on this
minimising effort and environmental costs - research please visit:
working with nature, www.permaculture.org.uk/
rather than fighting
whats-going-on/
against it. For a great
association-work/research
introduction to the
principles and practice
Permaculture Association UK
of permaculture see the
‘knowledge base’ of the BCM Permaculture Association
Permaculture London WC1N 3XX
Association website,
Tel: 0845 4581805
available here:
Email: office@permacuture.org.uk
www.permaculture.org.uk/
knowledge-base www.permaculture.org.uk
www.permaculture.org.uk/mixedveg 11
12. This booklet introduces the idea of
mixed vegetable gardening,
outlining its key benefits and
requirements. The original method
was developed in Nepal and has been
adapted to UK conditions. We hope
that future editions of this booklet
will include much more information
and useful ideas. If you have tried this
approach in your own garden and
want to share your wisdom / top tips
and photos please get in touch.
Contact details are on the inside back
cover. Find out more about this and
other related projects on our website:
www.permaculture.org.uk
/mixedveg
Photo above: Mixed vegetable salad by Nonelvis
Right: Allotments in East London by LoopZilla