Repurposing Household Items to Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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There are so many ways to repurpose old materials for use in the garden. In this paradigm, anything can have a second life in the growing space. Plastic bottles, boxes, and more have a new purpose that doesn’t involve waste. This is how Alessandro keeps his cultivation no to low-waste. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3PyGLfM Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3rAlXws Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3PVxsI9 EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/46ynIsR Learn More: 25+ Plants That You Can Regrow From Your Kitchen Scraps Connect With Alessandro Vitale: Alessandro Vitale is also known as “Spicy Moustache”. Based in London, he’s been an Urban farmer for almost a decade and a content creator for the past 2 years. His channel focuses on gardening and maximizing the production of food in a small space. Other topics include foraging wild food, and how to use every part of your fruit and vegetables for a more sustainable life even in the middle of the city. Alessandro’s goal is to educate people not only to grow their own food, but also to reduce their impact on the environment. Instagram Website Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire 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. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! 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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are obviously gardening products that you can buy.
0:06.2	There are gardening products that we sell, but you don't have to do that.
0:09.0	You can garden on a budget if you want to, and it's something that jock on our team does
0:13.9	quite often, and as well as our guests, Alessandro Vitales by C. Mustache, some of the things
0:19.4	I've seen you put out, and even in a video that you did with us, it was just creative
0:24.0	ways to repurpose stuff from the house into the garden.
0:28.9	It goes along with the zero waste idea, but just with things instead of plants, right?
0:33.9	Yeah, and it's so easy, you know, like I started, one of my neighbors, no longer go, you
0:39.7	wanted to start on this garden, but you didn't have much budget.
0:42.7	So we went to a building site, and we got all the, all the timbers that they used to, you
0:50.1	know, like to build these structures outside, like to climb up, and then like build houses
0:57.2	or repairs, whatever.
0:58.8	So, and they were pretty old, so what we did, we created the raised bits in its garden
1:04.3	with the timbers, but then he had loads of plastic bottles left over.
1:11.9	We checked which one was best, which is usually HTTP2.
1:18.5	It's claimed to be the safest kind of plastic in the garden, and we used that to create
1:26.2	a vertical farm for strawberries.
1:29.3	We used pallets to make a composting system, and so many other things, you know, but I
1:33.9	was pretty much no budget garden, you know, so literally anyone can start it, like even
1:40.8	with, I had some ideas for niches that I still have in the garden, I'm going to balance
1:45.0	at the moment inside those, those for niches, and all I did was to line the inside and
1:51.4	then top it out with compost, and I do every year, like in layer of compost, just to top
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