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Lisa Brunette's avatar

Don't forget to punch that like button. Do you have any ancestral, spiritual, or just practical hack-worthy gardening techniques you'd like to share? I'm using cilantro as a companion interplanted with cabbage this year, with great results.

Anthony C Valterra's avatar

I pee on the potatoes. It doesn't seem to help.

Erin's avatar

LOL. I mean, we'll all have to solve the phosphate shortage somehow. Urine could play a part in that for farming.

Anthony C Valterra's avatar

I thought we were shooting for (at?) nitrogen.

Lisa Brunette's avatar

There’s a whole segment of permaculture for humanure and the like. We have a friend, a chemist, who collects her urine in a jar and uses it in her garden for the nitrogen.

Lisa Brunette's avatar

The neighbors love this.

Erin's avatar

Fascinating interview! Love it.

I do companion plant a bit. Basil and oregano by the tomatoes, marigolds around the garden fence to keep out the rabbits. And this year, we sprinkled holy water around our newly prepped garden beds- derived from largely forgotten rural parish practices. As I told my nephew when he seemed suspicious of my instructions, "Dude, we're making Christianity weird again."

Lisa Brunette's avatar

Great quote! Weird is good.

Dishwasher's avatar

Thanks for the inspiration, good stuff.

Luke Dodson's avatar

Fascinating, thank you for this.

Lisa Brunette's avatar

You're welcome. Glad you found it interesting.