Fish in the pond

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Fish are a critical part of ponds. Koi are commonly considered, but there are so many fish you can include in a pond. They become living artwork in the pond scape. But they also have a function! Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3UZ9T2k Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4c47kTO Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/4e8uREI EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/4aKbSOa Learn More: 11 Aquatic Plants for Your Garden PondConnect With Greg the Pond Guy:Greg Wittstock, The Pond Guy, is owner and CEO of Aquascape, Inc. After experimenting with ponds for over eight years, Greg had a “light bulb” moment. He decided that he wanted to do something he loved for a living – he wanted to build ponds. From there he created the Aquascape, Inc. business model. Greg authored The Pond Guy on Marketing and has appeared on the cover of Inc. Magazine and in Nat Geo Wild’s “Pond Stars” series. Instagram Facebook YouTube TikTok Love Epic Gardening products?Apply to the Epic Affiliate Program. Shop the StoreAs an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire 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. Get Our BooksLooking 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.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of the Beat is sponsored by Shopify, our Commerce Platform of Choice here at Epic Gardening.
0:05.5	If you are looking to start a business or you have one where you're offering products or services online or offline,
0:12.0	you can get a free trial at shopify.com
0:14.4	forward slash the beat.
0:15.8	But here's why we love it so much.
0:17.9	Back in 2019, when I first started offering gardening products for sale,
0:22.1	I didn't know anything about commerce.
0:24.0	So I threw up a very simple Shopify store in about an hour or two.
0:27.9	It was that easy and began to offer our flagship product, Birdies raised beds.
0:31.6	Shopify made setting up the inventory, the
0:34.1	tracking, the returns, the sales tax, all of the minutia of selling product
0:39.8	online so so easy. In fact, it's one of the first things we did when we
0:43.4	purchase botanical interests is we moved our seed company's platform from what
0:47.2	it was on before to Shopify and the experience was night and day. So we
0:51.2	wholeheartedly recommend Shopify as our commerce platform of choice here in
0:54.5	Epic gardening and again you can get a free trial at shopify.com forward slash the beat. We're back in the show with Greg Wittsock the Pond Guy. We're talking about
1:16.2	fish in the pond Greg. I love it. I've got Coy I've lost a few over the years
1:19.9	unfortunately. I kind of learned my lesson with some techniques maybe we'll talk about how to
1:23.1	protect your fish but why don't we just start out with it are coy the fish for a
1:27.9	pond or you know would you recommend other ones for a beginner I would would say that koi and goldfish, but kind of koi are the, you know, the
1:36.4	krem to the krem goldfish, you know, people go to Pet Smart and get them, but there's a whole
1:40.1	world, yeah, around koi. They're called the, you know, Nashiki Koy, the living jewels.
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