Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Kevin here and we are joined

again by Ian McKenna who is a youth hunger advocate he's grown over 20,000

pounds of produce in Austin, Texas for food

insecure families and children, starting off with his elementary school.

Really cool story and we've been talking about his methods.

How does he actually do that and what are some basic gardening practices

that will allow you to increase produce, of course for yourself

but also for others.

And I think one of the ones that

tell me what you think when you first learned about succession planting was it

confusing to you I know it's confusing to a lot of beginner gardeners

so it's definitely very confusing if there's no time I actually explain it to you.

I'll tell you I did understand what it was supposed to be at first.

At first I didn't understand what it meant or how to really do it.

But then you, if you look up just like there's these charts based on where you are

That's probably the easiest way to do it and that's how I was able to understand it.

Because when you look at like a C packet it will tell you when it can be grown and the session planting is

really useful for just maximizing your growing seasons. So often what I do is I'll harvest it up until the plants are

kind of done producing.

And then I'll have my plants. I'll get them early so that they can start to mature.

So when I plant them into the ground, they're already, like, they've already matured a lot and they will start producing fairly quickly after that.

Yeah.

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