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Best Practices & Expert Tips for Rose Gardening

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 17, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
We’ve touched on rose pests and diseases. This episode is dedicated to getting your rose garden started. Ensure you have proper conditions, pick the right roses, and just get growing! You won’t be disappointed in the results when you provide your rose garden with everything it needs.  Epic Garde...

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Disease-Free Rose Growing

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 16, 2024 14:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Many rose diseases can be prevented through proper care, which prevents pests that can spread diseases as well. But dealing with any diseases that crop up isn’t that difficult. Heirloom Roses owner, Ben Hanna has the essential tips for tackling rose diseases.  Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https...

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Common Rose Pests and Prevention

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 15, 2024 14:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
There are three components to keeping pests away from your roses: proper sunlight, watering, and fertilizing. Most rose plants recover from pest feeding, and most gardens already have a healthy population of beneficial insects. In this episode, Ben Hanna discusses ways to monitor and control rose...

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Own-root Roses and Bare-Root Roses - What’s the Difference

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 14, 2024 14:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
What are you getting when you buy a rose at a big box store? Usually a grafted rose. A better option is to purchase an own-root rose, which is not only hardier, but will live much longer. Ben Hanna of Heirloom Roses explains why here.  Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3KgskuN B...

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The Story of Heirloom Roses

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 13, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
11 years ago, Ben and his wife, Kara purchased Heirloom Roses from the former owners. Before that Ben was an executive in an electronics company. Since this lifestyle change, Ben and his family have truly enjoyed working for themselves with gorgeous roses. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://g...

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Designing a Next-Level Chicken Coop

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 10, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
It’s chicken season! As the founders of Coop, Jordan Barnes and AJ Forsythe are avid chicken farmers, and they have eggs coming out of their ears. Listen to them discuss the differences between homegrown, farm fresh eggs and mass-produced eggs.  Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/...

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Cleanliness and Chickens

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 09, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Sometimes the coop can get a little messy. In this episode, Kevin, AJ, and Jordan discuss tips and tricks that help chicken-keepers with hygiene. They also cover a few anecdotes about their adventures in chicken cleanliness.  Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/44nRLDR Botanical I...

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Urban Farming - Demystifying Dirt for City Slickers

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 08, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Chickens don’t just have a practical function, they are also super fun! AJ and Jordan have found that chickens changed their connection to food. They’ve also enriched their lives with their personalities, and their desire for attention.  Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3QtbiNm ...

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Chickens Do More Than Lay Eggs

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 07, 2024 14:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Chickens are great egg-layers, but they’re also excellent pest controllers, and garden fertilizers. You can turn 95% of your kitchen waste into eggs quickly too! In this episode, Jordan and AJ cover all the ways chicken-keeping benefits the growing space. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://gr...

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Homegrown Eggs Are Best

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 06, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
It’s chicken season! As the founders of Coop, Jordan Barnes and AJ Forsythe are avid chicken farmers, and they have eggs coming out of their ears. Listen to them discuss the differences between homegrown, farm fresh eggs and mass-produced eggs.  Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co...

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Encountering Challenges in the Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 03, 2024 14:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
No matter where you are, gardening involves dealing with a host of problems specific to your locale. Meg deals with heat and humidity, which brings in pests and diseases. She and Jacques compare the difficulties they deal with, and how they handle them. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://grow...

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Livestock: Growing With Garden Helpers

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 02, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Beekeeping and chicken keeping are Meg’s newest gardening passions. Beekeeping is a huge endeavor, and a whole science she has to learn. Chicken keeping is something she’s more familiar with. In this episode, hear her and Jacques discuss gardening with livestock.  Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: h...

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Growing and Preserving Flavorful Foods

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 01, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Meg is keen to grow her garden specifically for the delicious foods she can cook and preserve. Here, she and Jacques discuss their favorites for their tastiness as it stands, and for preservation purposes. They also cover the best ways to extend their enjoyment of the harvest.  Epic Gardening Sh...

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Chaos Gardening, or Gardening Instinctively

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 30, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
One year, Meg was so busy she only had time to throw and sow some seeds in her garden. She didn’t have time to plan it out, nor was there an opportunity to be super meticulous about her garden. What resulted was some of the best harvests she’s had. This is what she calls Chaos Gardening.  Epic G...

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Meg's Gardening Journey

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 29, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Gardening has always been a dream for Meg Lloyd. As a pre-med student taking a botany class, she realized this is what she should have done with her life. Fast forward to today, and Meg has a thriving backyard garden on her quarter acre lot full of delicious produce.  Epic Gardening Shop Homepag...

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Orchards

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 26, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Kris and Jacques reflect on their adventures growing fruit. Kris has had some mixed results with different trees. Jacques just installed six trees and bushes at his hermitage. In this episode, they outline the best ways to practice orcharding at home.  Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growe...

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Desert Island Vegetables

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 25, 2024 14:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
In the event of a zombie apocalypse, what would Jacques and Kris grow? Probably not a plant you can only harvest once, and certainly one that tastes good. Here they discuss their favorite veggie plants that provide plenty of calories, and have great adaptability.  Epic Gardening Shop Homepage:ht...

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Styles of Preservation

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 24, 2024 14:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Preservation is a great way to reduce waste in the garden. In this episode, Jacques and Kris discuss all their favorite (and not so favorite) ways to preserve the food they grow in their gardens. From freezing, to drying, these two have some pretty awesome secrets to share.  Epic Gardening Shop ...

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Gardening Side Business

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 23, 2024 14:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Kris has a consulting business, called Grow a Little Garden where she teaches people to garden in raised beds. Jacques truly enjoys teaching people how to grow food at home with his Jacques in the Garden channel. Both of them love their vocations, in and out of Epic Gardening, because growing foo...

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Introducing Kris

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 22, 2024 12:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Jacques and Kris are two of the first employees of Epic Gardening, and both of them got into growing their own food around the pandemic. Both of them truly love food, cooking, and most of all, eating. These interests sparked their jobs teaching other people how to garden.  Epic Gardening Shop Ho...

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Growing Dahlias From Seed

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 19, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Growing dahlias from seed is very different from cultivating them in their tuber stage. The difference lies mainly in that they produce a whole new variety, genetically. This doesn’t dampen their ability to feed the bees, and attract pollinators, but it does shorten their vase life.  Epic Garden...

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Growing Dahlias From Tubers

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 18, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
When should you plant dahlia tubers, and what are the best ways to care for them? Jennifer Gulizia, head farmer at The Flowering Farmhouse has a lot of experience growing dahlias. And she has all the information you need to grow your own here! Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3U...

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Growing Flowers You Love

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 17, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
If you try to grow what’s popular, and you don’t love it, you won’t have the motivation to care for it! This is the key to cut flower farming according to Jennifer Gulizia. If you’re passionate about a type of flower, focus on growing that first, and then expand to caring for other species.  Epi...

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How To Sell Cut Flowers

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 16, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
How does one start their own cut flower farm? Jennifer Gulizia of the Flowering Farmhouse is a seasoned flower farmer, and she has expert advice on this very topic. It all starts with a thought-out business plan that is tailored to your lifestyle. Remain practical, and flexible, and you’ll be set...

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Starting a Cut Flower Farm

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 15, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Jennifer Gulizia of the Flowering Farmhouse didn’t start her career in cut flower growing first thing. It wasn’t until after she did a stint in the corporate world and worked as a wedding photographer that she was inspired to cultivate gorgeous blooms. Hear her story about how she got there, and ...

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Gardening and Loneliness

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 12, 2024 14:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Mention that you like gardening, and you’ll spark someone’s interest. Occupational Horticulturalist, Perla Sofía Curbelo Santiago experiences this with her friends and neighbors on a regular basis. Though gardening can be a solitary practice, it brings people together.  Epic Gardening Shop Homep...

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Check in with yourself before you checked a gardening activity from your list

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 11, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
There are ways to adjust what you do in the garden to make the practice of gardening safer and more enjoyable. Sometimes it’s as small as winding up a hose. Other times it’s a matter of moving some of the garden’s main features. These minute changes can make so much difference. Epic Gardening Sh...

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Making Gardening Easier For Yourself

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 10, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
There are small ways to make massive gardening projects much easier. Divide your projects into their main parts. Plan out how you’re going to work through your project. Ask for help from friends and family. Overall, have fun! That’s how it’s supposed to be. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://...

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Reducing Stress in the Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 09, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Sometimes the garden can actually be a source of stress. But there are ways to mitigate your garden stresses with garden joys. The source of this joy is shifting towards a #GardenBreak. Relax, restore, do nothing sometimes, and tackle plant problems as they arise. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage:  ...

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Gardening For Wellness

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 08, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Gardening is not just about epic yields. It also benefits your overall well being. This fact is the reason that Perla Sofía Curbelo Santiago decided to pursue a career in Horticultural Therapy. With conscious adjustments, people can glean so much more than great food from their gardens. Epic Gar...

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