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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Advice to New Gardeners Getting Started

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Today, Gary Pilarchik, a huge gardening inspiration to me, is on the podcast. We talk about some of his best pieces of advice for a beginner gardener. Connect With Gary Pilarchik: Gary Pilarchik is the man behind The Rusted Garden, a wildly popular YouTube channel. He also has a blog of the same name, as well as a store where he sells seeds and gardening supplies. His book, The Modern Homestead Garden: Growing Self-Sufficiency in Any Size Backyard. Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's going on everyone?

0:02.0

What's going on everyone?

0:14.0

Welcome back to the Epic Garden Podcast.

0:17.0

We have a really awesome guest this week.

0:19.0

Gary Palarchik, who is the man behind the Rusted Garden which is one of the first

0:23.8

YouTube channels that I ever found when I was first starting out in gardening

0:28.6

about I would say nine or ten years ago or so and he also also has a blog, it has the same name.

0:34.2

There's a store on that blog where he sells seeds

0:36.4

and gardening supplies.

0:37.8

And then his book called The Modern Homestead Garden,

0:40.2

Growing Self-Sufficiency in any size backyard backyard was just released for pre-order and will be in the

0:46.3

links so I highly recommend you check that out but yeah it's really a cool moment to have you

0:50.4

on the podcast Gary just because I learned so much from your

0:53.2

YouTube channel. Thanks so much, Kevin. I'm glad to talk with you. I could talk for

0:57.4

hours about gardening. Well, let's do it then. I know that I think we

1:01.0

both know this year because of some of the unique circumstances

1:04.7

that have gone on.

1:05.9

We have a lot of new gardeners and I think something you do really well is demystify and just

1:12.3

really explain things in a simple manner for new gardeners.

1:15.0

So I was wondering if you had any bits of wisdom for someone new that will help them have more success and less failure.

1:23.0

Yeah, I agree.

1:25.0

I mean, so many people are looking into getting into garden now.

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