Living the Aquascape lifestyle

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Gardens without water are incomplete, according to Greg the Pond Guy. There is no feature that will change a garden more than a pond. Not only is the sound of moving water relaxing, water features bring in wildlife and insects that support the ecosystem. It’s not just the water feature, but everything it entails. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4bGsd7v Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4bXNk5L Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3Vqwzdm EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3yKzuET Learn More: 11 Aquatic Plants for Your Garden PondConnect With Greg the Pond Guy:Greg Wittstock, The Pond Guy, is owner and CEO of Aquascape, Inc. After experimenting with ponds for over eight years, Greg had a “light bulb” moment. He decided that he wanted to do something he loved for a living – he wanted to build ponds. From there he created the Aquascape, Inc. business model. Greg authored The Pond Guy on Marketing and has appeared on the cover of Inc. Magazine and in Nat Geo Wild’s “Pond Stars” series. Instagram Facebook YouTube TikTok Love Epic Gardening products?Apply to the Epic Affiliate Program. Shop the StoreAs 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. Get Our BooksLooking 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 ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Beat my friends. We are joined by Greg Wittzak-Pong Guy.
0:17.0	We're talking about aquascapes. We're talking about backyard ponds and water features.
0:20.0	We're going to get into some of the more specifics about that, but there's a thing you always say that I'd love for you to explain. You just talk about living the Aquascapes lifestyle.
0:28.0	And to me, I go like, is that just a slogan? Like what does does that mean and to me it speaks so like I think
0:35.3	like living in epic gardening lifestyle or like living the life of a gardener right and
0:38.8	it seems like you have something kind of similar there well the lifestyle is what we're doing right now.
0:45.0	So we're sitting 30 feet, 40 feet from your waterfalls and I hear it.
0:49.5	And it just creates that kind of Zen atmosphere, the sound of water.
0:54.1	I think that every garden is incomplete without water.
0:59.3	Water is a source of all life, all of the pollinators that need,
1:02.0	all the birds will come down.
1:03.5	It changes a space.
1:04.9	There's nothing.
1:06.3	This is a big bold statement.
1:07.8	You know, Epic Garden.
1:08.5	I'm ready for it.
1:09.1	It's welcome to push back on there.
1:11.2	There's nothing that you can do in a garden that will change the space more than a decorative water feature.
1:17.0	Okay, you heard it, you heard it. I don't know that I would agree.
1:20.0	That's go, but I do agree that, will I will say this yes
1:23.9	When I heard you talk aquisafe fly so but you're a bombastic guy. You're outspoken guy I go
1:28.8	Is it just like hype like what is what is going on and then we do the pond right and then the
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