Growing FOOD in Pots

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Learning the right vegetables to grow in containers is essential - don’t waste your time on the ones that won’t perform well! Niki Jabbour stops by to give us some of her favorites. Connect With Niki Jabbour: Niki Jabbour is an award-winning author 3 best-selling books like The Year Round Vegetable Gardener, Groundbreaking Food Gardens, and Veggie Garden Remix. She has a popular radio show called The Weekend Gardener and is extremely active in the online gardening world as well. She’s best known for her 20+ raised bed gardens that she grows in throughout the entire year in the cold climate of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener Groundbreaking Food Gardens Niki Jabbour’s Veggie Garden Remix Savvy Gardening Niki’s Instagram Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first 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. 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 Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back to our final episode, at least for the time being with
0:07.3	Nikki Jibur, the best-selling author of Year on Vegetable Gardener, Groundbreaking Food
0:13.0	Gardens and Veggie Garden Remix. The host of the radio show The Weekend Gardener and
0:18.4	a blogger and writer over at Savvy Gardening. She is everywhere, both on the internet and
0:24.2	off and links will be in the podcast description for all of her books and all the places you
0:27.6	can find her. So in our final episode, and I am sad that it's the final episode, Nikki,
0:33.2	we are talking about growing food in containers. A lot of us will grow our container gardens
0:39.0	and maybe we'll do herbs which certainly are food. You eat them definitely, but I think
0:44.3	a lot of people either go with herbs in containers or they might do an ornamental container
0:48.6	and they don't necessarily think, why don't I just straight up grow vegetables in containers?
0:54.8	True, and you know it's so easy to grow in containers and I know we've talked this week about
0:59.0	my beds, I have 20 raised beds, I have a greenhouse, I have lots of space, but I give it a big back
1:05.0	deck as well and it's really really sunny and so I use my back deck to grow lots of food in containers.
1:10.4	I have a veggie pod, I have just plastic pots, I have wooden planters and because it's so hot
1:15.4	and kind of sheltered, I actually can grow varieties of hot peppers and eggplants and tomatoes
1:20.2	that really need the heat, they grow better on my back deck in containers than they actually do in
1:24.6	my vegetable garden. Oh yeah, there you go and tomatoes are a classic container vegetable for
1:31.1	balcony gardeners even all the way down to of course someone with an acre of space like you.
1:35.4	Yeah exactly and I mean I do grow so I do grow quite a few different types of vegetables
1:39.8	and herbs in my containers and it's fun to do and you know I don't know if you're like me but
1:44.2	as I'm cooking that's usually when I realize I forgot to pick something, whether it's a handful
1:49.6	of basil, you know whether it's a handful of cherry tomatoes or something else. So having some
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