We've talked a lot about companion planting on the podcast and everyone comes to it with

a different perspective and this is the first time that we've had Charles outing on the

podcast and so you have a lot of unique perspectives and gardening that I've learned a lot from

Charles and so I think I'd love to hear I guess your take on companion planting in general

like what do you think about it at eye level?

Yeah I think about it I think differently to how it's often talked about and I'm so

interested to answer people's questions about it with evidence from my gut and I would

say that just for example multi-sowing I don't know how many of your listeners are familiar

with that but it's where you grow several seedlings in a clump and you plant them out

as a clump. I like to say well they're going in the ground with their mates. Their friends

they're companions and that's how I see companion planting is companionship between little

seedlings especially when little seedlings go in the ground they do not like being

master or another little seedling so this simple space plant I do as little as possible

and try and always have something nearby so that's what it is for me and I don't find

that there are I don't think I haven't come across anything that doesn't like anything

else so I don't see that there are any bad companions the only time that would happen

is if any one plant is very greedy for light and moisture it's just going to take the

space you know it's a bit of a bully and whatever is there it's just going to suffer I mean

like zucchini or crujette we'll do that yeah so yeah I would say yeah I kind of agree

with that I think it's less about what companions wouldn't work and more about to me I think

about it very from a very practical standpoint right so you know if if I know let's say

tomatoes certainly suffer from like let's say the hornworm and I can put something somewhere

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