Adding Bulbs to Edible Gardens

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Mixing bulbs into edible gardens is the next level beyond simply starting flower seeds in the edible garden. Kevin hasn’t done much of it in his garden, but Peggy, Dan, and Summer convince him to try. Connect With Peggy, Dan, and Summer: Peggy Anne Montgomery is a horticulturist and works with FlowerBulbs.com, Dan Benarcik is a horticulturist at Chanticleer Gardens, and Summer Rayne Oakes of Homestead Brooklyn recently started a new project called Flock up in the Finger Lakes of New York. FlowerBulbs.com Flower Bulbs on Facebook Flower Bulbs on Instagram Chanticleer Gardens Dan Benarcik’s Website Homestead Brooklyn on Instagram Flock Finger Lakes on YouTube 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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast.
0:16.5	It is Bulb Week and sadly it is the last day of Bulb Week here on the Epic Gardening
0:21.2	podcast.
0:22.2	We have Peggy Ann Montgomery, Dan Bynarski, and Summer Rain Oaks.
0:26.1	All their projects, we're going to hear about them in a little bit, but guys, what about
0:30.8	adding bulbs into edible gardens, which of course is the thing that I'm obsessed with, and
0:36.6	I've added flowers in as I've mentioned, but nothing bulbing quite yet, so I'm curious
0:40.8	how it would apply.
0:42.4	Well, I think you can't go wrong.
0:44.9	I think bulbs belong everywhere.
0:47.2	I always, my vegetable garden is ringed with lilies, so I have those for cutting for bringing
0:53.6	in the house for our family, and to cut for friends and family of ours.
0:59.4	Another thing to think about too is that most bulbs really attract pollinators, and that's
1:05.6	a wonderful thing, like summer's, you know, Stins and Garden, that's Spring Garden.
1:10.9	That's going to be a really important, very early nectar and pollen source for bees.
1:16.0	Ground bees will just be waking up.
1:17.6	They don't have a lot of energy to fly far, to forage, hives, stores are at their lowest
1:22.9	at that time in early spring, so for them to be able to, the queen to be able to get
1:27.3	out and feed are really important.
1:30.2	So when you're thinking about the pollinators too, so let's think about single flowers.
1:35.1	Some of those big gorgeous double daffodils, they can't get into the nectar, so those plant
1:40.0	those for yourself, for the vase, but plant single ones, and single crocus and other
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Epic Gardening, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Epic Gardening and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.