Preparing a Weedy Garden for Planting

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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If you’ve come across a new piece of land, chances are high that it’s not in perfect shape to garden. This was the case with Amy’s garden in her new home, so she shares what she did to get it into shape. Connect With Amy Bauer: Amy Bauer is the founder of Front Yard Veggies, where she shares about small-space front yard gardening. Recently she’s moved back to the East Coast, and is growing on much more space, sharing her knowledge along the way. Front Yard Veggies Blog Follow Amy on Instagram Subscribe to Amy on YouTube Mentioned in this Week’s Episodes: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Other links may be affiliate links in which we receive a commission. Trello App New England Month-by-Month Gardening by Charlie Nardozzi Northeast Fruit & Vegetable Gardening by Charlie Nardozzi Complete Guide to No-Dig Gardening by Charlie Nardozzi No Dig Organic Home & Garden by Charles Dowding, Stephanie Hafferty Hudson Valley Seed Co Planting Poster Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening podcast. I hope you're having an awesome day.
0:18.1	We are talking today with Amy Bauer of Frontyard Veggies. We've been talking about her transition
0:23.0	from a Southern California climate to a Massachusetts climate zone 6a. And Amy, you mentioned
0:29.8	you've got this in ground 13 by 40 foot area that was cultivated by the previous owners,
0:35.5	but I would imagine probably maybe in the state of disrepair when you moved in.
0:38.9	Exactly. It wasn't a complete state of disrepair because the previous owners knew that they,
0:44.4	I think they listed the house in May or June of last year. Because they knew they were
0:49.3	in a cell, I think they didn't really want to worry about planting their vegetable garden.
0:53.8	And then having to leave it to people who may or may not garden. It was completely overrun
1:00.5	with weeds. I don't think I can express enough how the house itself is beautiful, the property
1:06.3	is so well landscaped, the garden looked like it was just in shambles. I was very overwhelmed.
1:14.2	And I think it was, I don't know, maybe October we moved in. So shortly thereafter,
1:22.0	we have a ride on lawnmower. So I just had my husband mow all the weeds down. I'm not getting in
1:27.6	there and weeding anything. They're all just going to get mulled down. If you mow it, we have a
1:33.0	track back on the back of it, suck it up and mulchers everything. And then we luckily for moving
1:41.1	had tons and tons and tons of cardboard boxes that instead of sending to a recycling center are
1:47.6	now decomposing nicely in our garden. So what I did was we had the the garden space all mowed down
1:56.9	and then I had two friends, Jess again from asking food for us and Ariana from the Birch Arbor
2:02.6	Garden were so so sweet and right after we moved, they came over one Saturday and helped me,
2:10.7	you know, visualize the bed and get everything prepped and laid the cardboard down and helped
2:15.7	water the cardboard and just helped me make a plan for it. There are a big reason why the garden
2:21.0	even happened this year because I was, again, a four-month-old baby, new house pandemic. Like I was,
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