Low Budget Gardening Tips

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Jacques spent less than $1,000 to build his entire garden - and a lot of sweat equity. Learn how he kept costs down. Connect With Jacques Follow Jacques on Instagram 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast. Kevin here, live studio recording
0:19.1	with Jacques the Garden Hermit. We are here. We talked yesterday about your garden. Basically
0:24.8	how did you start it and how much money did you or did you not spend? And I think a lot
0:29.0	of people who either don't have the money or don't want to spend the money want to
0:35.2	know, okay, well what practically did you do? So like, where did you get the compost?
0:39.8	How much did it cost? How did you save so much money? Because to build a garden that
0:44.7	your scale and I do encourage you guys listening, check out the YouTube video where we toured
0:48.4	as garden. It's like a half hour dream tour. It's not small. So to think you spent maybe
0:53.6	a thousand bucks is pretty astonishing. So I'd love to hear a couple of your best tips.
0:57.8	Right. So I mean, to start with, we originally bought our first plants. So that's an easy way
1:04.6	to spend a lot of money really fast. So from there, it started learning about propagation. So for
1:11.1	instance, you know, we wanted more tomatoes. So I started learning how to propagate suckers.
1:16.6	So from that sense, like I'm already multiplying plants that I only paid for once. A big cost saving
1:23.0	thing that I found is definitely starting your own seeds. So for instance, if you're to buy
1:29.5	a, you know, a package of seeds, you often get 20 to 300 seeds. And that ranges anywhere from
1:36.3	like three to five dollars max. So from that, you know, if, especially things like beats,
1:42.2	like let's say you want beats, if you go to the nursery and you buy a six pack of beats,
1:46.2	it's going to be four dollars, there's normally going to be way too many in there. And it's kind
1:50.6	of a chore. But if you buy one pack of seeds, you got four dollars and 300 seeds, then you have
1:55.8	300 plants. Yeah. So it's with beats even more. Yeah. Even more. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. So
2:01.3	things like that really helped getting compost. I originally looked for suppliers in the area,
2:07.8	found the local nursery that sold a compost that wasn't that expensive. I think it was like six
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Epic Gardening, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Epic Gardening and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.