311 - Container Companion Planting with Edible Crops with Pam Farley, author of The First Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
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🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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This week we are talking with Pam Farley of Brown Thumb Mama. She recently wrote the book called 'The First Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening'. If you are a container gardener or wanting to get into more container gardening, this episode is for you!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there and welcome back to the podcast. If you are growing anything in containers this year |
| 0:05.6 | or you are hoping to get better at growing food in containers, then this podcast episode is going to be |
| 0:12.9 | perfect for you. My guest today is Pam Farley of Brown Thumb Mama and she's also the author of |
| 0:20.5 | the first time gardener container food |
| 0:23.0 | gardening. All the know-how you need to grow veggies, fruits, herbs, and other edible plants |
| 0:28.6 | in pots. You guys, I read this book from cover to cover, and I cannot recommend it enough |
| 0:34.6 | for especially beginning container gardeners, but I learned so much. |
| 0:39.7 | If you've been a long time listener to the podcast, you know that container gardening is not my |
| 0:43.6 | favorite. It's not something that I've actually felt like I've become really good at, so I'm |
| 0:48.2 | constantly trying to learn some of the tricks of the trade. And this book and this conversation |
| 0:53.2 | today have given me a lot of information |
| 0:55.6 | that hopefully will help me become a better container gardener. |
| 0:58.9 | We are gonna dive into companion planting |
| 1:01.3 | with containers because I know companion planting |
| 1:03.6 | is a subject many of you want to know more about, |
| 1:05.9 | especially if you are growing in containers. |
| 1:08.6 | She's gonna share with us three different companion |
| 1:11.6 | planted container combinations that you can still |
| 1:14.6 | grow for the summer garden this year. |
| 1:16.4 | These are so unique and she talks about why they work. |
| 1:19.4 | And these combinations look amazing and so much fun. |
| 1:22.4 | But we're also going to talk about what happens |
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