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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Gardening gets even better with the addition of landscaping. At the Homestead, the Epic Pond exemplifies how working with the landscape improves the garden tenfold. Jacques has been breaking up the garden with pollinator patches. They both have benefitted from self-sowing annuals and perennials as well. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4aX9eoc Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/45qSfcB Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/4cl2VMh EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3Vr0Sj2 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 ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We've been known to grow our fair share of annuals here at Epic Gardening, vegetables, fruits, trees,
0:19.1	although I guess trees are perennials.
0:20.5	There's a bread and butter.
0:21.5	They're still edibles and I think I'm a bit of a convert into both
0:25.5	perennial edibles but also just landscaping yeah just scaping that land and making it look better and the
0:31.5	thing that converted me is the evolution of the
0:33.4	epic pond in the backyard which you can actually I've been I know this whole time yeah and
0:37.5	I can't I'm facing away from it so I'm very sad but to me we had Greg Wittsock the pawn
0:42.2	guy both on the show and out recently and he actually gave us a compliment on the pond which to me that's the pinnacle because this guy knows
0:49.1	Not the first time though not the no he trashed the pawn the first time, rightfully so, and then now he said it's a Ferrari in a Ferrari.
0:58.0	The first time he said it's a Ferrari engine in a minivan, meaning that his pond was amazing and the landscaping was bad, and he was right.
1:06.1	And now he said that the landscaping is at Ferrari Tier.
1:09.2	And so to me, even you and I, we were up on the roof a couple days ago and you remarked like how good that
1:15.7	pond area looks relative to the rest of the garden and it got me thinking oh yeah why
1:20.4	don't I do more perennial or floral sort of ornamental landscaping
1:24.8	around the edible garden in the backyard like why wouldn't I do that?
1:28.1	Yeah around the chicken coop where there's nothing else happening like why not
1:31.2	options there's so many avenues for that and so I'm kind of
1:34.8	of curious like you've been a little bit more on this train I think than me because you have more
1:38.0	ornamentals just on your property in general. Yeah that's true but what are you doing
1:41.2	around that? So one thing that I really like is I always like having something growing.
1:46.0	So like when we talked about that winter spring transition where you clear everything out,
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