Relay Planting The Secret Weapon to Higher Production
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Relay planting is a clever twist on succession planting to get more harvests out of the same space. Jill McSheehy joins us in her final episode to share more of her practical garden tips.
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| 0:00.0 | How's it going everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | How's it going everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. |
| 0:16.7 | Jill McShei is back for her final episode, at least for now. |
| 0:21.4 | So again, Jill is the podcaster behind the Beginners Garden Podcast, which I highly recommend |
| 0:26.0 | you subscribe to. He's also the author of the book Vegetable Gardening for Beginners. |
| 0:30.5 | Over the course of this week, we really have talked about a lot of fun and thought-provoking |
| 0:36.7 | experiments and pieces of wisdom that Jill has learned in her journey through gardening. |
| 0:43.0 | Now there's a topic that you guys know I talk a lot about, |
| 0:45.8 | which is succession planting, |
| 0:47.6 | the idea of always starting seeds |
| 0:49.6 | so you can plug in new crops |
| 0:51.6 | as soon as you pull something out so that let's say you're |
| 0:54.0 | growing in a limited gross season you have maybe three four months you might as |
| 0:57.9 | well use every single day to get as much yield as you can out and Jill has something she's calling |
| 1:03.7 | relay planting which as I understand it Jill has existed for a while I just for some |
| 1:07.7 | reason is it's escaped to me so I would love to know about it. |
| 1:10.1 | Yeah really playing is one of my favorite methods of planting in the garden and it's |
| 1:15.9 | similar to succession planting just a little bit different. I don't know about you Kevin |
| 1:20.4 | but when I was in high school I ran track and I was on the relay team and |
| 1:25.6 | sadly we're not going to see the relay team in the Summer Olympics but you might |
| 1:29.8 | recall past Summer Olympics you have a relay team and they pass a baton between one |
| 1:34.6 | runner and the next and for a short period of time that baton is in the hands of |
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