Quick Crops For Small Spaces

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Popping in crops in the nooks and crannies of your fall garden is a fantastic way to squeeze out more yield. Meg Cowden shares her favorite recommendations. Connect With Meg Cowden: Meg Cowden is the founder of Seed to Fork, a Zone 4a/b gardener who’s all about zone-bending, season extending, and succession planting. She’s got a book coming out soon too, so stay tuned. Seed to Fork Blog Meg’s YouTube Channel Meg’s Instagram Meg’s Pinterest Meg’s Facebook Page 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... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast.
0:17.2	We have Meg Cowden back, the 4A Slashbee Gardener from Minnesota founder of C2Fork, a longtime
0:25.5	Instagram friend who is now on the podcast. Meg, we've talked about long season crops, main
0:29.9	season crops, direct seeding for a fall garden and actually this topic is really near
0:34.9	and dear to me. Quick crops for small spaces was basically my modus operandi the whole
0:39.8	time I was in my old garden space in my yard garden and pretty much what I had to do.
0:44.8	So I'm curious to see how you approach it.
0:47.1	Yeah and I would love to hear if what I think about it would resonate because I am not in
0:52.8	a small space but I fully recognize that most people are not growing at the scale I grow
0:57.8	at.
0:58.8	Sure.
0:59.8	So I really try to be cognizant of thinking about the things that would suit kind of the
1:05.9	masses because you know I had a very small garden for many years as well.
1:12.4	My favorite small space crops, we're going to back to Brasquez.
1:17.5	I love Brasquez so Cole Robby is one of my very favorite fast maturing small space fabulous
1:30.4	crops for a small garden and the other thing about Brasquez in general that we haven't
1:36.3	touched on yet is that you know with the exception of broccoli and kale that kind of
1:42.4	get taller a lot of these crops top out at like two feet or so you know like your cabbage
1:49.4	your broccoli your Cole Robby they don't get too tall.
1:53.5	And so part of that allows you to strategically interplant them and put them in spaces that
2:01.2	maybe they something wouldn't otherwise fit right you know like maybe you can talk them
2:06.2	in front of a tomato if it's binding and you've got support.
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