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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Starting a Long-Lived Edible Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

If you want practical tips on growing a garden that thrives over the long-term, Chris shares some great beginner tips in today’s show. Connect With Chris Chung: Chris a horticulturist, garden consultant, and the founder of Fluent Garden in Vancouver, BC. Website Instagram Facebook 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello there, everyone. Welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast.

0:16.9

Kevin Espiritu here, we have Chris from Fluent Garden on the podcast for our final episode

0:22.4

this week.

0:23.4

She is a horticulturist and a garden consultant and her company is called Fluent Garden

0:27.8

up in Vancouver.

0:29.3

We had initially connected over Instagram and then we started just chatting about Instagram

0:34.1

and gardening and all sorts of stuff.

0:36.4

And here we are on the podcast, Chris.

0:37.8

So we've talked a lot about perennials this week and garden design.

0:41.8

Now let's go hyper-practical mode and just give people some tips on a long-lived productive

0:49.2

edible garden from your experiences growing.

0:52.8

Yeah, for sure.

0:54.1

The first one I just want to start off is, you know, I tell this to everyone, be realistic.

1:02.5

Although it's your space and you want, you know, you have these wonderful goals.

1:07.4

One thing I tell my clients is, you know, you have to be realistic.

1:10.9

What is your lifestyle like?

1:12.6

Are you really going to want to tend to your things like every single day?

1:17.0

Yeah, is that realistic?

1:20.2

And also, you know, make it, make your garden a space that you can enjoy.

1:23.9

Like how do you, how do you want to enjoy?

1:25.8

Do you just want to invite birds into your garden or do you want to have like crazy harvest?

1:30.7

So before we dig into like the details, it's kind of like, okay, how do you want to, how

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