Sustainable Practices to Help You Continue to Share Your Harvest
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Epic Gardening
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🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today we talk about some things you can do in your garden to squeeze out more harvests for yourself and those you wish to share your bounty with.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We've got Ian McKenna back on the |
| 0:17.4 | show and we are talking today about some things you can do in the garden that will allow you to continue growing really nice healthy |
| 0:26.7 | beautiful produce so that you can of course enjoy it yourself that's sort of the table stakes |
| 0:31.0 | but also share it with the surrounding community, especially |
| 0:34.8 | those in need. |
| 0:36.2 | And so Ian, I think this is a good topic because of course we know where to donate it, we |
| 0:41.3 | listen to yesterday's show, we know some easy and fast growing crops but especially in 2020 2021 |
| 0:47.1 | so many new gardeners right I mean I think something like 16 to 18 million new |
| 0:52.4 | gardeners just last year in 2020. |
| 0:56.0 | That's a lot of new gardeners so they may not know some of these basic topics on how to make sure that you can keep on sharing your harvest. |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah, one of the first things is if you're untering whether you want to really start a garden, Obviously the first thing you can do is |
| 1:15.0 | container planting, which a good practice with that is that you can, sorry, a good thing about container planting is you can actually move the plants |
| 1:27.3 | inside and bring back out if it's too hot or too cold, which is obviously one of the harder things to do if you plant them in the |
| 1:34.9 | ground or in a raised bed and also composting so a lot of people don't understand the basics of composting and they think you can just put any organic matter in there. |
| 1:51.0 | But really you don't want to put plants that have any pests on it or any |
| 1:58.3 | disease in them because then when you when it's broken down into compost I can then put on your plants, you're putting those diseases back onto the plants. |
| 2:08.0 | Another thing is you don't want to put anything that will smell really because |
| 2:14.8 | talking meats and cheeses and oils and stuff like that. |
| 2:18.4 | Yeah and oils also another thing that's really bad for the compost because it slows down the |
| 2:24.9 | breaking down of it it really fast so just a small amount of oil will have the entire composting |
| 2:34.0 | kind of stall for a little bit. |
| 2:37.0 | And with composting another thing is |
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