Jens Top 3 Micro Food Varieties

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Jen shares her favorite varieties for small plants, including a pepper that’s now going to make it into my garden for 2021. Connect With Jennifer McGuinness: Jen McGuinness is the author of the new book, Micro Food Gardening out April 13th, and also the author of the Frau Zinnie blog, where she shares her ornamental and edible gardening adventures. Pre-order Micro Food Gardening and get a special project directly from Jen’s book! 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 to the Epic Gardening podcast everyone, Kevin Espiritu here and we are joined
0:18.2	by Jen McGinnis, the author of Microfood Gardening, which is out April 13th.
0:23.6	So grab a copy, highly recommend it.
0:25.8	Jen, we've been talking about Microfood Gardening obviously the whole week, but why don't we
0:30.3	dive into a couple fun varieties that you think people would really get a lot out of?
0:35.7	Sure.
0:36.7	Well, I would have to start with a micro tomato because as you know, that's one of my
0:41.0	most favorite ones to grow.
0:43.0	I really liked Muhammad as a small dwarf variety.
0:47.2	This one got about 10 to 12 inches tall at most, but it created these wine red tomatoes
0:55.2	that had the smoky sweet taste to them.
0:59.1	That's cool.
1:00.1	I have not heard of it and I know I'm growing 26 tomatoes, but I will now be growing 27.
1:04.8	I mean, if they're micro, it doesn't really count, right?
1:09.1	Right.
1:10.1	I think you could fit it in.
1:11.1	I think you could make room for it.
1:14.1	I heard that you may also be growing a pepper that's kind of unique and is high up on your
1:19.4	list.
1:21.0	Yeah.
1:22.0	I'm really excited to try out pot appenio, which is a compact jalopenio pepper.
1:27.6	It's also an all-America selections winner this year, so that's how I found out about it.
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