Easy Fast Growing Plants to Grow When Donating
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Epic Gardening
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🗓️ 6 January 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
If you're growing to donate, you want to focus on easy to grow, fast crops that you can donate on a continual basis. Here are Ian's favorite picks.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:06.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening |
| 0:15.6 | podcast. Kevin here and I'm joined again by Ian McKenna who is a youth |
| 0:20.0 | hunger advocate. He has grown and donated over 20,000 pounds of produce in around eight years, |
| 0:28.0 | and he started when he was eight. So some really awesome epic gardening from Ian. |
| 0:32.9 | Yesterday we talked about just the idea of growing a little bit extra |
| 0:36.4 | and sharing that with your community, |
| 0:38.5 | but some of the practicality, you know, |
| 0:40.7 | what plants should you actually grow and you've been doing this for quite a long time |
| 0:44.6 | Ian what are some of your favorites that you would suggest for someone who wants to start |
| 0:49.7 | donating some of their their garden produce. |
| 1:05.8 | So I'm just going to start off. I've grown a large large variety and I want to say I've grown I've grown almost every type of plant you can grow in Texas and I found some of the easier ones to start out |
| 1:12.3 | with are like the kind of obvious like lettuce and carrots |
| 1:19.0 | beads those kinds of things And tomatoes are also another easy one. The only issue with them are pests. |
| 1:30.0 | But there's not really anything you can do about that. |
| 1:34.0 | Something I look for when I'm looking for what plants I want to plant, |
| 1:40.0 | I look for, if I'm looking at seeds, I look for it for it's saying specifically high yield and vast maturing. |
| 1:50.0 | So it means that they'll get to the point where they can start producing faster and also produce more. |
| 1:58.0 | And when trying to help feed tons of people. |
| 2:03.0 | Obviously you need to have something that produces quickly. |
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