Designing a Curb Strip

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Kevin tore up his curb strip and asks Nan for some advice as to how to approach a fully bare curb strip planting, complete with natives and pollinator-friendly plants. Connect With Nan Sterman: Nan Sterman is a garden expert, botanist, journalist, and educator. She hosts a TV show called A Growing Passion, is the author of three books, has a online garden school, and designs gardens. Waterwise Gardener Seed Starting Workshop San Diego Gardener Facebook Group A Growing Passion TV Show Hot Color, Dry Garde and the rest of Nan’s books 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 Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Recently, as in the last two days or so, here at the epic homestead, we cleared out the
0:19.0	entire curb strip on my property.
0:22.8	Well, not really my property, I believe that it is maintained and owned by the city or
0:26.6	there's supposed to be, but it turns out that most of us homeowners tend to manage it
0:30.8	in some way.
0:31.8	So I cleared it out.
0:32.8	It's basically just bear dirt in one palm tree right now.
0:35.8	And now I know that we have chatted a little bit about water-wise garden, succulent gardens,
0:40.7	all sorts of different topics here.
0:42.8	It's kind of an interesting opportunity now to design a garden bed from scratch with
0:49.7	different initial conditions, like I'm not trying to grow lettuce and the curb strip,
0:55.0	for example.
0:56.0	I kind of want something that's beautiful, makes the house look good, maybe has some
1:00.7	great benefits for pollinators, and that's kind of it, somewhat lower maintenance.
1:05.3	So I'm curious how you think about designing a situation like this.
1:10.5	What was in that space before?
1:13.3	So there was a struggling Jacaranda as sort of a landscape plant that I think is just
1:18.9	put on my street.
1:20.4	There was a hibiscus with white fly all over it, and then there were two large lantana
1:26.3	bushes.
1:27.6	And that's it.
1:28.6	And one of the lantana bushes was kind of around the trunk of the palm tree, so kind
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