What if your vegetable garden didn't just boom in August specifically? We all know you plant everything

in the beginning of the growing season and then come August you've got more produce than you can dream

of. But then it kind of ghosts you for the rest of the year, right? Well, today I'm joined by

horticulturist and author Charlie Nardotzi to talk about his continuous vegetable garden method.

He uses perennials, self-sewing plants, and smart succession planning to make the most

low-maintenance garden I've ever heard of.

It's more harvest and less work.

By the end of this episode, you're going to learn how to stretch your season, even in cold

climates.

Plant once and harvest for years and let nature do the heavy lifting.

Welcome to the Growing Joy with Plants podcast, where we not only learn how to care for plants

successfully, but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more joy in our lives by doing so.

I'm Maria, former plant killer turned happy plant lady, author of Growing Joy, The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness, Speaker, Podcaster, and most importantly, your new best plant friend.

On Growing Joy with Plants, you'll find conversations about house plant care, gardening tutorials, and wellness through the lens of plants.

Plant care is self-care on Growing Joy.

Hi, Charlie. Welcome to Growing Joy.

It's nice to be here, Maria. Thanks for having me.

Yeah, I'm very curious about your methodology that you preach because it almost sounds too good to be true with this continuous vegetable garden that we all would love to have.

I'm curious, how did you become the plant person and continuous gardening expert that you are today?

Well, it goes way back to my childhood. I grew up in Connecticut and my Italian grandparents,

every time one of their six children got married, they gave them a piece of land on their

property. So I grew up with the Italian-American enclave, all my uncles and aunts and cousins all around us.

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