Money Saving Gardening Tips

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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With the world in a precarious state, being budget-conscious in the garden is ever important. Rebecca and Kevin share some of their best money-saving tips in today’s episode. Connect With Rebecca Sears: Rebecca Sears is the Chief Gardening Guru at Ferry-Morse, where she’s responsible for making sure Ferry-Morse gardeners are more successful. Ferry-Morse Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first 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. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking 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. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here at Epic Gardening, we sometimes don't garden with a budget in mind, but you have
0:19.6	to keep in mind that is what we're doing for a living.
0:21.9	So I like to take it a little bit to the extreme sometimes.
0:25.0	You know, we have Jacques on our team who is a very budget conscious gardener and provides
0:28.2	all sorts of different tips.
0:29.7	We have Rebecca Sears back on the show.
0:31.4	She is a chief gardening guru at Ferry Morris.
0:34.5	Have you seen this sort of budget conscious trend coming through in the last couple years,
0:39.6	Rebecca?
0:40.6	Oh, no, no.
0:41.6	You know, I think that the interest in home gardening was sort of originally born from
0:45.4	the idea of saving money anyway.
0:49.1	But today, especially since we're seeing, you know, after the pandemic and there were food
0:52.8	shortages and then today with inflation, you know, people are looking for ways to be
0:57.5	more frugal.
0:59.0	I could not agree more.
1:00.2	Yeah, I mean, you think about, you know, what's the impetus for many people at least to
1:04.2	grow food at home.
1:05.0	It's to save on some of the grocery bills that they might be experiencing.
1:09.1	And so we talk about like, you know, growing herbs or growing leafy greens, some of that
1:13.0	high value, high perishable stuff that honestly, you just save a lot by growing at home.
1:17.4	But I'm curious if you have any kind of killer money saving tips that you guys use or you've
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