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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Setting Up the Test Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Common garden wisdom has recently been put to the test on the Epic Homestead. Everything from garden soil to growing methods is under the meticulous supervision of Kevin and Jacques. As they carry out their research and come to conclusions, they’ll share their results with the community.  Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3Vmgu7u Botanical Interests Shop Homepage:  https://growepic.co/4cmOWFY Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/4bZFFDE EG Homesteading Book:  https://growepic.co/45rp8G7 Learn More:17 Cherry Tomatoes for Your Summer GardenConnect With Jacques in the Garden:It’s almost summer time! Kevin and Jacques talk about their plans for the warm season in their 2024 gardens. They look back on their wins, discuss their test garden, and cover their plans for summer gardening. As the new season approaches, they consider new ways to grow. Apply to the Epic Affiliate Program. Shop the StoreAs 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. Get Our BooksLooking 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 ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including The Beet Podcast,  Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden and Botanical Interest ) Instagram (Including Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode of the Beat is sponsored by Shopify, our Commerce Platform of Choice here at Epic Gardening.

0:05.5

If you are looking to start a business or you have one where you're offering products or services online or offline,

0:12.0

you can get a free trial at shopify.com

0:14.4

forward slash the beat.

0:15.8

But here's why we love it so much.

0:17.9

Back in 2019, when I first started offering gardening products for sale,

0:22.1

I didn't know anything about commerce.

0:24.0

So I threw up a very simple Shopify store in about an hour or two.

0:27.9

It was that easy and began to offer our flagship product, Birdies raised beds.

0:31.6

Shopify made setting up the inventory, the

0:34.1

tracking, the returns, the sales tax, all of the minutia of selling product

0:39.8

online so so easy. In fact, it's one of the first things we did when we

0:43.4

purchase botanical interests is we moved our seed company's platform from what

0:47.2

it was on before to Shopify and the experience was night and day. So we

0:51.2

wholeheartedly recommend Shopify as our commerce platform of choice here in

0:54.5

Epic gardening and again you can get a free trial at shopify.com forward to the beach. Welcome my

1:15.0

Hermit, Jacques himself.

1:18.0

We're actually hanging out in my backyard at the epic gardening

1:21.0

headquarters right next to the greenhouse, June Bloom Jock.

1:24.2

Oh yeah, it's fully here.

1:25.3

Not the best vibe, but I have to say the light's nice here in the garden.

1:28.8

It is nice and it's also nice to be in the experimental patch.

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