So for many beginning gardeners, your journey to growing vegetables, fruits, flowers starts in containers, not necessarily in the ground.

Maybe you're renting. Maybe you were like me and had a little balcony. Maybe you don't want to amend your soil.

There's so many different reasons why one might grow in containers. And the container growing guy

is my friend Kevin Espiritu from Epic Gardening. He has books on growing in grow bags. He blew up

and is known for his Epic Gardening Channel, which up until recently has all been in containers.

And there's definitely things that you need to know about

growing in containers that differ from growing indoors. So in today's episode, which is a re-release,

part of the Growing Joy, part of the Best of Growing Joy series, I'm bringing back this episode

on container gardening 101 with Kevin to share not just Kevin's stories about, you know,

growing one of the largest gardening communities ever, but breaking down how to grow in

containers step by step. So whether you have a balcony, a patio, a rental, this episode is

geared to set you up for success to grow your own food confidently in as small as space

as you're working with. Welcome. Welcome to the Growing Joy with Plants podcast, where we not

only learn how to care for plants successfully, but how to simply and affordably use

our plant babies to cultivate more joy in our lives by doing so. I'm Maria, former plant killer

turned happy plant lady, author of Growing Joy, The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness,

speaker, podcaster, and most importantly, your new best plant friend. On Growing Joy with plants, you'll find conversations about house plant care, gardening

tutorials, and wellness through the lens of plants.

Plant care is self-care.

On growing joy.

I'm so happy to have you on my show after meeting you, IRL.

Was it last week or two weeks ago?

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