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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Water features in town houses

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

You don’t need a lot of space to have your own pond. A fountainscape or pondless waterfall is easy to install on a patio. It’s even possible to have an above ground pond in a small space. With a little extra TLC, and the right balance, it will thrive.   Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4565ZJU Botanical Interests Shop Homepage:  https://growepic.co/3yHK5AD Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3X0a4NI EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3X1KvMc Learn More:  11 Aquatic Plants for Your Garden PondConnect With Greg the Pond Guy:Greg Wittstock, The Pond Guy, is owner and CEO of Aquascape, Inc. After experimenting with ponds for over eight years, Greg had a “light bulb” moment. He decided that he wanted to do something he loved for a living – he wanted to build ponds. From there he created the Aquascape, Inc. business model. Greg authored The Pond Guy on Marketing and has appeared on the cover of Inc. Magazine and in Nat Geo Wild’s “Pond Stars” series. Instagram Facebook YouTube TikTok Love Epic Gardening products?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 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 slash the beat. If you've been convinced, and I've been convinced, and I've been convinced and I've been reconvinced even though I do have a pond on

1:17.0

getting some more water in my space, more water features, but let's just say you know

1:21.7

maybe I live in a townhouse or I live in a small

1:23.9

home and I don't have the space right now to put in a big pond. Yes. How would

1:28.4

someone get started? We have Greg Wittsock back on the show, founder of Acrescapes,

1:32.0

give us the knowledge.

1:33.6

Okay. Well speaking of townhouses, I remember when my mom moved into a townhouse and she, of course,

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