5 Ways to Grow More Food in Less Space

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Here are 5 creative ways to get more harvests out of the same amount of space, with my friend Niki Jabbour. Connect With Niki Jabbour: Niki Jabbour is an award-winning author 3 best-selling books like The Year Round Vegetable Gardener, Groundbreaking Food Gardens, and Veggie Garden Remix. She has a popular radio show called The Weekend Gardener and is extremely active in the online gardening world as well. She’s best known for her 20+ raised bed gardens that she grows in throughout the entire year in the cold climate of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener Groundbreaking Food Gardens Niki Jabbour’s Veggie Garden Remix Savvy Gardening Niki’s Instagram Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's going on everyone welcome back to the epic gardening podcast.
0:05.7	We are joined again by the amazing Nikki Jiburr, author, radio show host, vlogger, Instagram
0:13.8	or she's got everything and it's all in the podcast description so I highly recommend
0:17.5	you check all of that out including her three amazing books.
0:20.3	Today we're talking about growing more food in less space or just getting more food out
0:24.8	of the space that you have.
0:26.6	There's a lot of different ways to do this.
0:28.6	We're going to talk about some really classic techniques and Nikki this is something that
0:33.9	I guess from my point of view I would say 20 raised bed gardens in your garden.
0:38.3	You've got straw bales.
0:40.2	Why do you need to get more out of that much space you have.
0:43.2	I'm so jealous of how much space that you have but I can see at the same time why not
0:47.8	maximize the space that you have and get absolutely the most harvest that you can.
0:51.8	Well exactly and I know you're an expert in this.
0:54.3	I know you're always trying these awesome techniques on trying to grow more food in your
0:58.0	space as well where you have more of an urban garden.
1:00.5	I mean technically I'm in the city of Halifax and Nova Scotia here in Canada but you know
1:04.9	I'm kind of in the old skirt so I do have an acre of land.
1:08.1	You know and my garden is basically all in my backyard and I have another area that's
1:12.3	about 30 by 40 feet.
1:13.8	I could extend my garden into but where I garden to is dear country so I have an electric
1:18.8	fence around my garden and I honestly I just haven't yet extended that fence to cover
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