Choosing Food-Safe Garden Products

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Beat Victoria. We are here for day three where we're going to be talking
0:16.7	about safety when it comes to buying products and what you think about when you're getting
0:21.8	something for your garden because there's so much out there especially nowadays you could find 300 versions of the same product and it's hard to say which one you want to choose.
0:31.0	So food safety, scientists,
0:33.1	mind, like what are you thinking about when you're
0:35.4	going out and selecting products for your garden?
0:37.6	Well, you know you're going to be eating that food.
0:39.8	Well, this is a learning curve for me.
0:41.5	As a first-time gardener and you know just finding
0:45.7	this things in my garden of you know from construction of my home and the
0:50.4	neighbors and I wanted to find things that you just you find things that are on discount you find them on the internet
0:56.8	you find things that can directly to your door so I wanted to go to a reputable source and I did my
1:01.9	research and this is actually I think this is what led me to
1:05.1	following you guys later on is your birdie bed which is the side of my house because I had many of the neighbors have tomatoes things right up to the side of the home and I didn't feel comfortable having a garden 20 feet in my backyard let alone planting items that my family was going to consume next to my home.
1:26.1	And that's where your birdie beds came in.
1:28.6	You could do some research, but trust companies like the Epic Gardner in your shop to know that number one is a food grade.
1:41.8	You know, two is we live in a hot climate or even if you live in a coal climate and the
1:46.4	decomposition of the paints and the surfaces on these items as well. Is it going to leach
1:52.0	into your food?
1:54.6	And, you know, many times you're like,
1:56.7	oh, well, that one is, you know, X amount more,
1:59.4	but think about the quality of what you're going to be growing in there.
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