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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.

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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."

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Great quote! Weird is good.

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

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The neighbors love this.

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

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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.

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

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That too.

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Fascinating, thank you for this.

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You're welcome. Glad you found it interesting.

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Thanks for the inspiration, good stuff.

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Thank you 🙏!

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