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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Types of Garden Covers

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

One of the best and most versatile techniques in the garden, growing under covers offer a whole host of benefits for the beginner and experienced gardener alike. Niki Jabbour is back on the show today for the third time!

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Niki Jabbour is an award-winning author 3 best-selling books like The Year Round Vegetable Gardener, Groundbreaking Food Gardens, and Veggie Garden Remix. She has a popular radio show called The Weekend Gardener and is extremely active in the online gardening world as well. She’s best known for her 20+ raised bed gardens that she grows in throughout the entire year in the cold climate of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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Transcript

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0:17.6

Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast everyone. Kevin here and we are joined I think Nicky this is you are the guest who's been on the most maybe you you're tied for the most, but we have

0:23.9

Nicky Jabura back on the podcast. She is an award-winning author. She's got a lot of

0:29.2

books. I mean just an absolute slew of books and they're all amazing.

0:32.8

One of them is called the year-round vegetable gardener.

0:35.1

I would say maybe that's the one you're most known for, Nicki?

0:38.1

Definitely, yeah.

0:40.1

That one, I think it was the right time on a topic that a lot of people want to learn about.

0:44.0

For sure, yeah, but she's also got groundbreaking food gardens, veggie garden remix, and then her

0:47.8

latest book, Growing Undercover, which is what we're going to be talking about this this week came out last year

0:53.4

December 22nd you can grab a copy in the video or the podcast description so

0:57.5

first of all thanks for coming back nicky and happy new year

0:59.7

well happy to you kevin and thank you so much for having me. I didn't know I was one of your more frequent guests, which is truly an honor because you know how much I love listening to the podcast.

1:08.0

Yeah, I mean, I think every time you come on, everyone loves it and I love it so you know I have a copy of the book it's

1:16.8

sitting on my desk right now along with actually Jessica Wallister's book who is one of your

1:20.8

partners over at savvyvy Gardening.

1:23.0

And so I figured growing undercover, not a topic that you would imagine I would have a whole lot of experience

1:29.0

with because just the temperatures and the climate around my area doesn't really require it but I think as we'll learn in this week

1:35.0

That's not really the only reason you would grow under cover. So why don't we start out with just what what is a garden cover just the bare bones basics

1:42.4

Yeah, you know I've Garden Envy Kevin, I tell you that climate envy every time I talk to you.

1:48.0

New Garden is so inspiring, I love it.

1:50.4

And Jessica, you mentioned Jessica's new book, plant partners,

1:52.8

my partner, you know, at Savvy Gardening,

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