Balancing Roots and the Shoots

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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We grow most of the plants we grow for their shoots and fruits...but often forget about the world beneath the soil...the roots. Learn how to balance your care of both the above and below-ground parts of your plants. Connect With Daryl Beyers: Daryl Beyers is the author of upcoming book, The New Gardener’s Handbook and garden instructor at New York Botanical Garden. The New Gardener’s Handbook New York Botanical Garden 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?
0:04.0	What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. I am really
0:17.8	excited to kick off this week with our guest, Darrell Byers. He is the author of The New Gardeners Handbook.
0:25.6	And just by the title, you can tell that that's going to be a topic that I'm very much
0:29.1	excited about.
0:30.1	I love helping New Gardeners out.
0:32.2	And Darrell's also a garden instructor at the New York
0:34.9	botanical garden so definitely got some deep experience and what we're doing on this
0:39.7	week is actually
0:43.0	really interesting.
0:44.0	And with Darrell's book, we're actually pegging the topics
0:47.0	to some of the chapters in his book.
0:49.0	So I highly recommend, it's kind of a good companion listen
0:52.0	with the book.
0:53.0	So recommend checking that book out.
0:54.5	Again, it's the new Gardner's Handbook.
0:56.5	But today we're going to kick it off with balancing roots and the shoots,
1:01.0	which I love the terminology there. I love the sort of phrasing
1:04.4	and rhyming there darl and what can we what do we mean by that when we're saying
1:08.0	that?
1:09.0	Um hi Kevin thanks for inviting me onto the podcast for sure yeah happy to have you um Thank you. For sure.
1:13.0	Yeah, happy to have you.
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