About this episode

This episode shares a list of ten essential plants every gardener should grow, focusing on their reliability, beauty, and multiple uses.

In this episode of the Seeds and Weeds podcast, we're sharing our list of the ten plants we think every gardener should grow! With so many amazing crops to choose from, narrowing it down wasn’t easy — but we selected plants that are reliable, beautiful, productive, and useful in more than one way. Many of these crops offer dual or even triple purposes, giving you food, medicine, pollinator support, and garden beauty all in one plant. We begin with powerful herbs and flowers like calendula, a ...

People in this episode

Host: Bevin Cohen

Topics covered

• gardening
• plants
• herbs
• flowers
• crop selection
• dual purpose plants

Keywords

• gardening
• plants
• herbs
• calendula
• crop selection
• pollinator support
• garden beauty

Mentioned in this episode

Products: calendula

Books & works: Seeds and Weeds podcast

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