How to Grow as a Gardener

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Kaylan’s garden journey started with grow bags, and then moved to almost every kind of gardening you could do! Today she’s mastered the art of gardening, so much that she helps her neighbors with their gardens too. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3uqfXaz Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/410Eorl Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3QZBU7Y EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3QZkXdS Connect With Kaylan Segev: Kaylan is a Bay Area native and budding gardener. Her passion for planting began when she started growing tomatoes in her studio apartment bathroom while living in San Francisco during shelter-in-place. Today, she gardens on 13,000 square feet of fertile land nestled in the hills of Oakland, CA (zone 10a), where she cultivates everything from native plants, vegetables, fruits, and bulbs, to medicinal and sensory plants in raised beds, grow bags, and in the ground. Her latest project, a dreamy chicken coop, is currently being constructed with chickens on the way in spring 2024. Instagram 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 Epic Homesteading, and Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Every year I feel like I add something new dimensionally to my gardening practice, whether it's getting in touch with pollinators or understanding planting design better.
0:22.0	This year it's going to be ornamental in garden design.
0:24.7	We have Kalins, I get back on the show,
0:27.1	and you know, you started gardening.
0:28.8	I believe it was in the pandemic, right?
0:31.3	Yes.
0:32.1	So this will be your fourth season going into 2024.
0:35.0	Yep.
0:36.0	And so maybe talk us through how you've progressed as a gardener because I think a lot of people in the
0:40.3	first couple years will get really excited and they kind of
0:43.4	flame out and have a lull or maybe even stop and if they want to get back into it I'd
0:49.0	be curious kind of what you did in each of those years and how complex the
0:52.3	garden might be now.
0:53.7	Yeah totally and it's like I'm a little kind of squirrely in that I like to do a little
1:01.3	bit of everything all the time and so that has been you know the
1:04.7	garden has been such a welcoming place for that so like 20-20 discovered you like you
1:10.4	honestly were a huge part of me feeling confident to experiment and that is like a big thing about gardening is like there's so little ego around it.
1:20.5	It's like you know you can cue up all the things and then nature is going to do her
1:26.0	thing and nothing is a failure if it's all experimentation and so started really like
1:32.1	maybe indoors with succulents like you know started really
1:33.2	succulents like you know and then as a pandemic really picked up I was able to kind of
1:38.6	Access a little bit of our shared backyard in our like Victorian house in San Francisco and grow bags. That was like what I was you know it was the most affordable and effective and so it really started with grow bags and then I got into I got my hands on the
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