Picking the Right Plants For Your Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Deciding what to plant is often confusing. It seems like you have to consider the whole world! Rebecca shares some key insights to make better plant choices. 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	After about five, six years full-time here at Epic Gardening and certainly five years
0:17.9	here on the podcast, suffice to say I've seen my fair share of mistakes that myself I've
0:24.6	made.
0:25.6	You know, our team has made, but also, you know, the gardeners and those of you listening
0:28.8	who follow us and take a look at what we're up to for advice.
0:32.2	And one of the things we see a lot, and I'm sure Rebecca, you see this as well, is just
0:37.2	not selecting plants that actually work for either the time you're trying to grow them
0:41.8	or the place you are in the world or even maybe your living situation.
0:44.8	So I'm curious, Rebecca, since you are Chief Gardening Guru over at Fairy Morse, which
0:49.2	sells a ton of seeds, is this a thing that you guys see?
0:53.2	Oh, yeah, for sure.
0:54.2	I think that, you know, it's really, especially if someone's starting out in the Gardening
0:58.2	world, there's a lot to learn and a lot to know.
1:01.3	So selecting the right plant is typically a challenge for people, especially if they don't
1:07.1	know what their zone is and what their growing conditions are.
1:10.9	And you know, oftentimes people will iteratively learn and try and test things out, which
1:16.6	is fantastic.
1:17.6	And I think that's part of the process of gardening, for sure, and part of the joy of
1:20.6	it is the learning process, but there's probably some shortcuts that you can take to make
1:25.1	sure that you're selecting the right things from the get go.
1:27.9	Yeah, I think the challenge, it seems like at the start, is that there's quite frankly
1:32.0	too much to know.
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