Natural Weed Control & Heirloom Flowers in the Garden

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2019

⏱️ 290 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Melissa and guest Shaye Elliot from the Elliot Homestead share their tips for natural weed control at planting time so you can spend less time weeding and more time enjoying your garden, especially with the addition of heirloom flowers. You'll learn how to create a cottage style heirloom garden that provides you with beauty through every season with less work, best flowers, how to plan it, resources and more! This special episode will have you weeding less (and with a weeding plan to take away overwhelm) and putting in heirloom flowers to life long enjoyment. Go to the blog post here for resources and Melissa's Instagram to win a copy of both her book and Shaye's!

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode number 178 of the Pioneering Today podcast.
0:04.6	Today is an exciting episode because we are talking about two things that can bring us immense
0:10.9	joy in the garden.
0:12.9	And the first one is less weeds.
0:15.6	Can I get an amen?
0:17.3	And the second, which is a little bit newer for me,
0:21.1	is how to create beauty with using air room flowers in and about not only your homestead flower beds, also in the vegetable garden but creating a place of
0:36.0	beauty and haven wherever you look on your homestead. Now as you will hear in this
0:42.2	upcoming episode I do not have a ton of experience with
0:47.2	air-loom flowers. The way that I grew up and the way that we have gardens for decades now has been mainly focused on food
0:55.8	production.
0:56.8	That's been our main goal is to make sure we are getting food out of our efforts and our
1:01.4	garden.
1:02.4	But about two to three years ago I really
1:04.8	decided that I wanted to bring in more beauty and to do so with flowers and
1:10.6	to have things in the flower beds and in our gardens here on the homestead.
1:14.0	Now some of those flowers have medicinal purposes so they are things of beauty and they also are
1:19.7	edible and have medicinal purposes which is pretty amazing.
1:23.0	But I made it a goal that things didn't have to have this sole purpose of feeding us or working in our
1:30.0	National Medicine Garden to have a home on our homestead that they could just be for the pure pleasure of looking at it.
1:38.4	So that's what we're going to be diving into on today's episode.
1:41.6	You are in for a huge treat so let's get right to our
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