Organic Gardening For Beginners: Tips To Plan And Grow Your Own Productive Garden
Organic Gardening For Beginners is a podcast that helps overwhelmed and time-crunched new gardeners start and maintain their own thriving garden.
Join Jessica, owner of Homegrown Food and Flowers and a seasoned gardener with over 20 years of experience, as she shares her tips, resources, and inspiration to help you overcome common barriers to gardening.
Get valuable insight on topics like companion planting, seed starting, gardening planning, summer maintenance chores, growing cut flowers, attracting pollinators, and enjoying your garden produce.
Whether you're struggling with a lack of time, don’t know what to grow, or are simply overwhelmed with where to start, Jessica will show you how to create a successful garden that fits your lifestyle, budget, and creativity.
With a focus on easy, practical tips that you can put into action, this podcast is perfect for anyone who wants to experience the joy and satisfaction of growing their own food and flowers but has questions like these:
- How do I start a garden?
- How and when should I start seeds?
- Which vegetables and flowers should I plant?
- What is involved in organic gardening?
- How do I get the most out of my garden space?
If that’s you, then you’re in the right place. This is your year to get started. So let’s dig in!
Organic Gardening For Beginners: Tips To Plan And Grow Your Own Productive Garden
036: Small Space Gardening: 5 Tips To Maximize Your Compact Garden
Whether you live in a city apartment with only a small balcony or have a tiny backyard, there's no reason why you can't start an organic garden. In the latest episode of Organic Gardening for Beginners, I share some new strategies, experiences, and practical tips for maximizing you garden in small spaces.
Small Space Organic Gardening
Small spaces can easily limit our garden dreams, but it doesn't have to be this way.
One of my main tips in this episode is going vertical when you're short on space. This approach maximizes space by utilizing trellises, arbors, hanging baskets, and stackable towers. Even unconventional or upcycled materials like rain gutters can be used to create a vertical garden or container space.
Another key tip for maximizing a small gardening space is the concept of companion planting. This technique allows you to get more from your garden by planting crops that benefit each other.
For example, you can plant tomatoes with basil, which is said to enhance the flavor of the tomatoes and will fill out your pots completely as the plants share space.
Upcycle and Use Unusual Containers
I've used shoe organizers, old wheelbarrow basins, and I even have rain gutters on my list as potential containers in a small space garden. You don't have to stick to pots and planters to find room for your plants!
Stick to Dwarf and Compact Varieties
You can avoid sprawling plants by growing compact or dwarf varieties of flowers and veggies like cucumber, nasturtium, sweet peas, zucchini, and even tomatoes. Compact varieties will free up a little more space for your plants and give you room to try new things.
Tune in to this latest podcast episode and get all the deets and demos for your own small-space garden.
Happy gardening!
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