Low-Maintenance Plants For The Yard

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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We're back with Ben Hale from Easy Living Yards. He's a landscaper who focuses on blending edible + ornamental landscapes into your life, connecting more with your community, and making an impact on the environment as a whole. Today's episode focuses on selecting low-maintenance plants that are effective, productive, and most importantly don't waste a lot of your time on cleanup and pruning! Learn More: Easy Living Yards with Ben Hale Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's going on everyone Kevin from Epic Gardening here and today I'm back with
0:05.3	Ben Hale of Easy Living Yards. It's been a great week so far. We've talked about
0:09.2	you know how to save time maintaining your yard, how to avoid mistakes in the first place and then just how to approach the entire
0:15.3	process with a sense of purpose and today we're going to get into selecting low
0:20.4	maintenance plants it's not a. Certainly you can select a higher
0:24.8	maintenance plant if you so choose, but if you are trying to have a beautiful space
0:28.9	that doesn't require a lot of time but still is just able to be enjoyed by you and your family well maybe
0:34.4	the low maintenance approach is the one for you so Ben first of all in your
0:39.1	mind what kind of qualifies as a low maintenance plan?
0:42.1	Hey Kevin thanks for having me back. qualifies as a low maintenance plant.
0:43.0	Hey Kevin, thanks for having me back.
0:45.0	For me, a low maintenance plant to answer your question directly
0:48.0	is just a plant that is essentially happy in the space you put it.
0:52.0	After you get it established, you don't really have to work on it
0:56.2	unless you want to.
0:58.8	Okay, yeah, makes complete sense.
1:00.5	And so if I'm, let's say I'm in California and San Diego which is where I am and you're where are you in the world right now?
1:07.3	So I live in southwestern Ohio and right outside of Cincinnati. We've got different climates.
1:14.0	Certainly. And that kind of brings us to our first point where
1:18.2	low maintenance is not a universal term. It depends on where you live, right?
1:22.0	Exactly. Yes. it depends on where you live right exactly yes so from there how am I going to
1:27.4	determine if I'm going to get a low maintenance plant or not you know what I mean right
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