Growing a Cottage Garden
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Far from needing to be grown “at a cottage”, the cottage garden ethos is one that may change the way you approach gardening altogether. Learn Tanya Anderson of Lovely Green’s approach to cottage gardening and how you can adapt it to your own space.
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Tanya Anderson is the founder of Lovely Greens, a gardening blog and YouTube channel, and the author of A Woman’s Garden: Grow Beautiful Plants and Make Useful Things.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome back to the Epic Gardening |
| 0:15.5 | podcast hope you are doing awesome Kevin here from Epic Gardening and |
| 0:19.9 | Tanya Anderson is also here from lovely Greens. Gardening blog, YouTube channel. |
| 0:24.2 | She sells all sorts of different products on her store as well. |
| 0:27.4 | And her book, the A Woman's Garden, |
| 0:29.4 | excuse me, grow beautiful plants and make useful things |
| 0:32.2 | is coming out in February so check that |
| 0:34.5 | out if you are so inclined today we're talking about a cottage garden and I will say |
| 0:40.3 | Tanya when I think of cottage garden I more or less think of your |
| 0:43.2 | garden the one that I see on your YouTube channel in my mind's eye growing up in |
| 0:48.4 | Southern California that is what I picture it to be It does have a cottage garden style but it's |
| 0:55.0 | being that you created it also see it that way or what exactly is a cottage garden. |
| 0:59.4 | It does have a cottage garden style, but it's more about the planting philosophy than what it actually looks like in the plants that are in my garden. |
| 1:12.0 | So the idea of a cottage garden is that it is European and in the past people would have their cottage and they would have a small yard to grow in and everything that the household would need as |
| 1:27.4 | far as vegetables that weren't staples were grown in that cottage garden. |
| 1:33.0 | So it was everything. |
| 1:34.1 | So it would be medicinal, it would be different herbs, |
| 1:38.2 | things for cleaning the home, |
| 1:40.7 | everything would be grown in there |
| 1:42.2 | and as much as possible within that small growing space. |
| 1:47.0 | And I think that as time goes on and our growing spaces, for most of us, they're relatively small and they're getting smaller and |
| 1:54.0 | smaller. So if you live in an urban area, you might be lucky to have a balcony or if you are in a small |
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