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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Growing Berries

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries are surprisingly simple to grow, even in a small space.. Connect With Christy Wilhelmi: Christy Wilhelmi is the founder of Gardenerd and author of the upcoming book, Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden. Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast.

0:16.5

We're talking berries today, one of my favorite things to grow.

0:19.4

Although really I've only grown blueberries and strawberries.

0:23.2

So Christy will help me from Garden Nerd and also the author of the upcoming book Grow

0:26.8

Your Own Mini Fruit Garden is back.

0:29.6

What do you got going on in your berry garden, Christy?

0:32.7

I have some blackberries and I wish I could tell you the name of them but I don't know because

0:38.0

they were a runner that I took from my neighbor's plot in my community garden.

0:41.7

So they're mystery blackberries but they're delicious, they're thorny and they go all over

0:46.3

which we'll talk about in a minute.

0:48.2

I also have a tower of strawberries plus two raised beds of strawberries and I don't

0:56.6

have any blueberries, sad to say, but those are my favorites right there.

1:02.2

Yeah, let's see what do I have.

1:04.8

I've got four blueberries, I've got an entire bed of strawberries but it's seascape

1:09.4

and albion varieties so I love seascapes, they're my favorite.

1:13.8

Yeah.

1:14.8

I just wanted something everbearing that would do well and I could just kind of pick

1:17.3

as I please, I didn't really want those Junebearing guys and then I've got a boys

1:22.2

in berry but it's not in the ground yet.

1:24.9

And I think this year I'll be doing, I believe it's raspberry shortcake from bushel and

1:30.1

berry and I believe I'll be doing, I forgot the name of their blackberry variety but I'll

1:34.3

be doing that one too.

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