General Advice for Adding Cut-Flowers to your Vegetable Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Due to limited space, Rachel Nafis initially felt discouraged in her practice of flower gardening. Today, however, she’s gardening 8 plots of cut flowers in San Diego, most in her neighbor’s yards. These flowers supply her local bouquet subscription, flower shops, and event florists. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/453IiQH Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/48w8G8H Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/464e7dA EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3ZrWYrL Learn More: 21 Flowers For The Perfect Fall Cut Flower Garden When To Plant Dahlias: The Best Time Of Year Connect With Rachel Nafis: Rachel Nafis is an urban flower farmer based in San Diego, California. Her urban farm, established in 2019, is composed of 8 different cutting gardens in her neighborhood, where she grows for a 30-member bouquet subscription, flower shops, and event florists. Instagram Website Shop the Store As 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. 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. 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 Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are talking to an urban flower farmer based in my hometown, San Diego, California.
0:08.7	We have Rachel and Nevis on the show.
0:11.9	Really cool to talk to you because I have really started getting into flowers in the last
0:16.3	couple of years, but not in the same way I've gotten into vegetables, more like beautifying
0:20.9	the vegetable garden, Rachel.
0:22.8	But for you, I mean, maybe we can just start with your setup, it's an urban farm.
0:27.5	Yeah, I established my farm in 2019, so this is my fifth growing season.
0:35.0	I'm kind of nearing the end.
0:36.6	I end my season at the end of September and then, you know, start, begin planting for
0:41.6	spring.
0:44.0	But yeah, I am the essence of an urban farm because I grow in my backyard and our back
0:50.6	alley.
0:51.7	And I have a total of eight different locations here in our neighborhood where I grow
0:56.3	in.
0:57.3	So, yeah, so eight different gardens that I can walk to and they're all here in my
1:02.6	neighborhood.
1:04.2	That reminds me of, in the very early days of starting out epic, maybe like 2016 or so,
1:10.3	I thought I was going to do that model, but for vegetables.
1:14.6	And it kind of reminds me of like the early videos from Curtis Stone, I don't even know
1:18.6	if he's around anymore, but he was kind of doing the same thing where you sort of network
1:22.4	with your neighbors and get land.
1:24.3	Is that how it worked?
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