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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Easy Ways to Boost Your Curb Appeal

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

We're back with Ben Hale from Easy Living Yards. He's a landscaper who focuses on blending edible + ornamental landscapes into your life, connecting more with your community, and making an impact on the environment as a whole. Today's episode focuses on curb appeal, or how to make your yard attractive to passers-by. You might not think this is important, but it matters not only for the pure aesthetic value, but so your neighbors aren't bugged by your yard and causing you all sorts of problems! Learn More: Easy Living Yards with Ben Hale Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to Epic Gardening Podcast. My name is Kevin and I'm here with Ben Hale of Easy Living Yards.

0:10.0

This whole week we've been going through quite a bit about, you know, maybe the

0:14.1

under arching principles or the overarching principles, however you want to think about

0:18.9

it, to landscaping your yard and today we're going to get a little more practical.

0:23.2

There's a term in the real estate world I believe called curb appeal and it's just how

0:26.7

it is your yard and your home look from the street.

0:30.2

And this is not something that I have paid a lot of attention to if I'm being

0:33.9

completely honest. First of all, I'm a renter and second of all I've been much

0:38.9

more focused on edibles and so to me like whatever got the job done was fine but I got to admit I'm

0:44.6

getting a little more into it these days and I'm really excited to have been here to

0:47.8

kind of give me the rundown and give you guys the rundown on some ways that you can boost your curb appeal.

0:54.5

So what's going on Ben?

0:55.7

Hey Kevin, it's Grapesee, be back.

0:58.9

So from a overall perspective, can you just kind of give a little brief

1:04.0

description of what is curb appeal and then as a from a landscaping perspective what

1:10.0

should we be trying to do to increase that?

1:12.9

Sure, yeah, and I can give you a little backstory here too,

1:15.5

which might be helpful.

1:16.8

So first to your question, what is curb appeal?

1:20.7

The way I define it, it's kind of a nuanced thing, just like saying design, how do you do design, right?

1:26.0

That's kind of hard to articulate.

1:28.0

But curb appeal is basically something you can do to increase that that wow feeling or that that aha for people coming into your landscape so so what can you do to your space to really make your house in your yard pop to people coming to visit.

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