231-Vegetables Love Flowers (and Why You Should Grow More)
The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l
Joe Lamp'l
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Adding a cutting garden to your landscape will mean fresh-cut flowers for you to enjoy and also an abundance of pollinators and other beneficial insects in your vegetable garden. To explain why vegetables love flowers and how to start a cutting garden, my guest this week is flower farmer and author Lisa Mason Ziegler. With Lisa's tips, you'll be ready to grow flowers confidently in no time.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover |
| 0:08.7 | everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required. |
| 0:13.1 | And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe behind Joe Gardner, |
| 0:18.5 | Joe Lample. |
| 0:19.5 | Hi everybody, it's Joe Lample and welcome to the Joe Gardner Show. |
| 0:22.6 | I know a lot of you are vegetable gardeners or market farmers maybe, or you're going |
| 0:27.2 | to least some food as part of your gardening endeavors. |
| 0:30.0 | I also know that a lot of you are or would like to incorporate more flowers into what |
| 0:34.6 | you're currently doing, either for your personal enjoyment or to attract more beneficials |
| 0:39.2 | to your garden or maybe you're looking into having a small scale or maybe a larger flower |
| 0:44.4 | farm as a business. |
| 0:46.4 | And that has become really popular lately. |
| 0:48.8 | Personally, I'm really amping up my flower growing around here, the garden farm, mostly |
| 0:53.4 | as I reduce the size of my lawn area and continue to do that a little bit more every year, |
| 0:58.3 | as I convert to meadows, something that I'm really excited about. |
| 1:01.7 | And of course, I love attracting all the pollinators and beneficials that I can get. |
| 1:06.3 | You can't have too many of them, right? |
| 1:08.7 | And on that subject, we'll be having more podcast episodes in the very near future around |
| 1:13.8 | this subject of growing more flowers and creating meadows and attracting pollinators through |
| 1:19.0 | flowers. |
| 1:20.0 | So be looking out for those. |
| 1:22.1 | But no matter the reason, if you're intrigued by the idea of adding more flowers to your |
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