In-Ground Growing vs. Raised Beds on Concrete

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In Santa Monica, Amy was growing in raised beds on concrete. In Massachusetts, she’s growing in a huge in-ground bed. Hear what she thinks about the difference between the two in today’s show. Connect With Amy Bauer: Amy Bauer is the founder of Front Yard Veggies, where she shares about small-space front yard gardening. Recently she’s moved back to the East Coast, and is growing on much more space, sharing her knowledge along the way. Front Yard Veggies Blog Follow Amy on Instagram Subscribe to Amy on YouTube Mentioned in this Week’s Episodes: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Other links may be affiliate links in which we receive a commission. Trello App New England Month-by-Month Gardening by Charlie Nardozzi Northeast Fruit & Vegetable Gardening by Charlie Nardozzi Complete Guide to No-Dig Gardening by Charlie Nardozzi No Dig Organic Home & Garden by Charles Dowding, Stephanie Hafferty Hudson Valley Seed Co Planting Poster 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	Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast, Kevin Espiritu here with Amy
0:18.0	Bauer from Front Yard Veggies and actually today Amy we will go back to the Front Yard
0:22.2	Veggies.
0:23.2	So let's teleport back to your Santa Monica Garden.
0:25.6	I loved following the stories there, some, some whole areas, some inspiring, some, some
0:30.9	slightly disgusting to be honest with you, but a story for another time, perhaps.
0:35.7	Oh, God.
0:36.9	Yeah, the bike got stolen, all sorts of stuff, but you were growing in raised beds and
0:42.8	you were growing on concrete, right?
0:44.6	Yes, yes, it was.
0:45.6	So when I say Front Yard Veggies, it really was, so we were renting this little bungalow,
0:52.4	there were three bungalows on the property.
0:54.9	Our Front Yard was essentially just like the end of a very long, very beige concrete driveway
1:02.6	that looked out onto a beige wall and a beige multi-family property next door.
1:07.8	So it was just a lot of, you know, cement and is there in and it was horrible.
1:14.7	So we were just like, okay, well, grow where you're planted.
1:18.2	Like let's build something here.
1:20.3	We did have a little bit of, quote unquote, lawn, but it was just dirt.
1:25.2	It was very shady, so we couldn't grow there.
1:28.5	So we built that.
1:29.5	We started with one raised bed, and then the following season, we did four, four by four
1:35.1	raised beds.
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