Benefits of Companion Planting
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Epic Gardening
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🗓️ 10 January 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
As we've learned from recent episodes, we've learned a ton about companion planting. Ian McKenna shares some of his favorite combinations in his donation gardens.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening |
| 0:15.8 | Podcast. Kevin here. We've got Ian McKenna on for our final episode at |
| 0:20.2 | least for now with him. He's a Youth Hunger Advocate. He's grown over 20,000 pounds of produce. |
| 0:25.2 | For people and families who are food insecure in the Austin area, a really cool story and we've talked about |
| 0:44.7 | all aspects of a really do that both on the level of literally where do you donate your produce and also some tips as far as in the garden what you can do to maximize your harvest and here's |
| 0:48.9 | another one and this would be when we talk about all the time here on the |
| 0:51.9 | podcast companion planting. |
| 0:53.6 | So Ian, I'm curious what your approach to it is because everyone seems to have their own method |
| 1:00.0 | of companion planting. |
| 1:01.2 | Yeah, so with companion planting one of the most well-known one is like squash squash beans and corn. |
| 1:15.1 | Right. Three sisters? |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah, but in Texas, in the small garden |
| 1:22.2 | you can't really do corn very well. |
| 1:25.0 | So you kind of have to look for other ways around it. |
| 1:30.0 | And especially with companion planting one of the it's really useful for people who have a smaller area too because a lot of the time they are like ground coverage plants, climbing plants, and usually like a vertical plant. |
| 1:58.6 | That's the most basic form of them. And that's also the most, I would say that's the most efficient form of them. So companion planning is really good because it makes it a lot easier to balance the nutrients in the soil and kind of like I said to maximize the space you have and one of the things that some people will do with |
| 2:20.4 | companion planting is they might plant two plants of the same family together and might have |
| 2:30.1 | the other companion plants, but you do want to try to keep plants the same families in separate beds and stuff because this is just a basic thing because if one of those plants in one bed get a disease or pest |
| 2:48.4 | often if they're in the same like general vicinity it will spread to the same plants of the same family. |
| 2:56.0 | So right with companion planting that also helps minimize the risk of that. |
| 3:02.1 | Right I totally agree. |
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