Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast.

Kevin Asperger to here, Liz Zorab is back on the show.

She's a homesteader from the UK.

She's in the middle of a storm right now and she's also the author of grounded a gardener's

journey to abundance and self-sufficiency.

We talked about some really cool cool weather perennials yesterday and Liz I know everyone

has their own approach to these planting techniques and you know different naming conventions

for them.

We're talking today about poly cultures, successful growing inter planting, all fantastic

techniques and I'm curious you know at your garden and your homestead how are you approaching

these?

I started off five years ago sewing things in nice neat rows and then at the end of

the first year I let a few of loads of the plants go to seed so I could collect the seeds

and inevitably they did their own thing and popped out all over the place which meant

the next year I had seeds of past nips for example had been blown across the garden and

the pathways and they were just growing everywhere.

And since then I have allowed them to do natural poly cultures as well as specifically

choosing to mix plants up as I grow them in different beds so that no one bed has got

just one crop in it and I do that partly to help deter pests so that a bit of companion

planting going on there and some of it is for aesthetic reasons I actually really like

to see a mixture of colours and textures of leaves and things across the garden and

part of it is just sheer laziness that I don't want to go out and pick out all seedlings

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