Waterwise Irrigation Strategies

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Irrigation is crucial to healthy plants, but there are a ton of sub-par irrigation methods to avoid. Nan shares her favorite methods. Connect With Nan Sterman: Nan Sterman is a garden expert, botanist, journalist, and educator. She hosts a TV show called A Growing Passion, is the author of three books, has a online garden school, and designs gardens. Waterwise Gardener Seed Starting Workshop San Diego Gardener Facebook Group A Growing Passion TV Show Hot Color, Dry Garde and the rest of Nan’s books Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first 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. 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) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're a gardener who is in a climate where water is somewhat to very scarce.
0:18.3	I mean, here in San Diego, California, I don't know what we're going to get this year
0:22.1	as far as rainfall, but certainly it's under probably 15 inches, maybe even under 10,
0:27.3	depends on the year.
0:28.3	And so, you know, those of you who have followed our epic homesteading channels, you know
0:31.2	that rainwater capture, graywater repurposing is something that we really do here at the
0:35.4	homestead.
0:36.4	But there are some choices you can make in the garden that will help use water more efficiently
0:42.0	just with the plants that you actually choose.
0:44.0	So we have Nance Durman back on the podcast, a garden expert, botanist, journalist, educator.
0:49.2	She's a TV show author of three books, many of which focus specifically on water wise
0:53.4	gardens and has an online garden school.
0:56.3	As I said in yesterday's episode and so many things that you do in the garden and this
0:59.6	water wise concept is so important for many of us in the garden, right?
1:05.4	It's critical, you know, our rainfall is actually even lower than what you were referring
1:09.8	to.
1:10.8	Our average is just under 10 and I think this year we probably are at seven, seven inches.
1:18.4	You know, that's that's nothing.
1:20.5	The last time that the rainfall, that the population of San Diego was small enough that we could
1:25.5	survive on our natural rainfall was in the 1940s.
1:30.2	Wow.
1:31.2	Yeah.
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