Ducks in the Garden 101
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
If you’ve gotten the bird bug and want chickens in your garden, don’t forget about ducks! They can be extremely beneficial in an edible veggie garden, and I’m talking with my friend Brian AKA @neverenoughdirt on Instagram about it in today’s show.
Connect With Brian:
Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening
My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is available for sale! It's a complete guide to growing plants, no matter where you live. Here's how to order:
EPIC Raised Beds
I'm carrying Birdies Garden Products raised beds, the ones I use exclusively in my front yard garden. They're a corrugated Aluzinc steel, powder-coated raised bed designed to last a lifetime.
Follow Epic Gardening
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | What is up everyone Kevin from Epic Gardening here? We are kicking off a pretty awesome week with another California gardener that I met on Instagram. |
| 0:10.5 | So this is Brian at Never Enough Dirt on Instagram. |
| 0:14.0 | Highly recommend you check his feet out. |
| 0:16.0 | He's actually got some really great Instagram stories where he goes into detail about his garden. |
| 0:21.0 | And so we're going to be hanging out for this week and the first topic we're talking about is one we've never talked about here in the podcast. I'm really interested in it myself |
| 0:28.7 | selfishly and I hope you guys enjoy it as well. It's about ducks in the garden. And you know we recently |
| 0:35.6 | had an from real hens of Oceum talking about chickens in the garden. So now we |
| 0:40.1 | have another bird to talk about. So of all Brian thanks for coming on and |
| 0:43.3 | second of all can we just talk a little bit about kind of your garden in general |
| 0:47.7 | first before we get into the ducks? Yeah awesome thanks for having me Kevin |
| 0:52.1 | as far as gardening, what I like to do here is try to do a diverse range of gardening techniques and just picking the pros of all that stuff and applying it to our garden. |
| 1:06.7 | We have a pretty sizable lot and it allows us to do a lot of things including having ducks in our garden so if you follow us on |
| 1:15.3 | Instagram you'll see the different techniques and stuff like that. |
| 1:20.0 | Awesome cool well so let's talk a little bit about the ducks then. When did you get them? |
| 1:24.4 | Sort of how do they fit into the overall garden? |
| 1:27.8 | I'm relatively new to ducks, so we've just crossed their first year with them and it's something that I've always been curious about for the longest time coming from having chickens in the past as a teenager and there's a big gap between having just a garden and no birds and I wanted to get chickens again but my wife was really animate about not having chickens. |
| 1:52.0 | So we turned to getting ducks and I was able to, |
| 1:57.0 | over a few years time, she wanted me to be really sure |
| 2:01.0 | and not just get it on a whim. She finally allowed me to get ducks so we have ducks and last |
| 2:07.0 | last week with Anne you guys talked a lot about chickens. It was a really great podcast. The thing for us is that all the pros and cons of ducks and chickens |
| 2:15.7 | they're the inverse. So if you have certain things that doesn't allow |
| 2:22.0 | parameters that prevent you from having |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
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.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.