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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Window Boxes: Beginner's Guide

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Window boxes are an accessible way for just about anyone - green and brown thumb alike - to get growing in extremely small spaces. In today's episode I take a look at my friend Ryan Benoit's book, How to Window Box. Learn More: How to Window Box: Small-Space Plants to Grow Indoors or Out Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, what's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening

0:04.4

podcast and today I'm going to be reading from a book that a friend of mine wrote.

0:10.0

His name's Ryan Benoit, him and his co-author, Chantal Aida Gordon, wrote this book called How to Window Box.

0:18.0

And these are ornamental gardeners. They're really big on all sorts of ornamental plants and which is great.

0:24.4

I mean there it's not something I'm used to growing.

0:26.8

I traditionally focus much more on edibles, vegetables, fruits, etc.

0:32.2

However, we all know the beneficial effects of ornamental plants,

0:37.0

along with they just look beautiful, right?

0:39.0

And on top of that, these two are extremely design and aesthetic-minded.

0:43.1

So what's really cool about their book

0:45.1

and kind of reading through it,

0:47.1

you know, for me, a more practical gardener,

0:49.3

I don't really have that in me.

0:51.5

I don't really have that design mindset as much as someone else does,

0:56.0

certainly as much as these two. So I'm just going to go through a couple different considerations

1:00.9

for both outdoor and indoor window boxes.

1:05.7

And I'm gonna go through just a couple other

1:08.7

basic practices, let's call it that.

1:11.3

So our first consideration is sun, right?

1:13.8

So you need to figure out where you live.

1:17.0

You need to figure out what direction your windows face.

1:19.3

This is the key factor.

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