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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

6 Weird Gardening Tricks To Try

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode comes from my friend Randy Williams, a retired farmer. He sent me 6 weird gardening ideas to try this season, and I'm excited to share them with you as well! Keep growing, Kevin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What is up everyone? This is Kevin from Epic Gardening.com coming at you hot from the

0:04.8

garden this morning after having just sipped on some home-brewed coffee, walked

0:09.4

outside and harvested some low quats from the tree in my front yard.

0:14.0

Beautiful way to start the day and can't really think of many other ways that would be better.

0:19.0

I don't know.

0:20.0

If you can think of a couple, tweet me. I'd like to hear it.

0:22.0

Anyways, today we're talking about six... If you can think of a couple, tweet me, I'd like to hear it.

0:23.1

Anyways, today we're talking about six off-the-wall gardening ideas to try this spring.

0:28.4

And these ideas come to me from a friend named Randy Williams, who I've talked to over email quite a bit.

0:34.6

He's a retired farmer, just an absolute expert in so many different things that have to do with

0:39.6

gardening.

0:40.5

So it's fascinating to talk to him. And so today, let's look at six ideas

0:45.0

that you should try this spring, a bit out there, a bit interesting.

0:48.0

Definitely pick one, by the time that this episode is over,

0:52.0

I want you to have picked one and

0:54.4

Committed to trying it out in the garden because what's the point of listening to this unless you try it right? So here we go

1:00.9

Number one

1:09.2

The bear butt tip So here we go. Number one, the bare butt test. Now legend has it that many years ago farmers would go out into their fields, they would pull down their pants, and they would sit their bare butt on the ground

1:15.6

to see if the ground was comfortable.

1:18.3

And the logic was that if the ground was warm enough to sit on, it was probably warm enough to plant seeds in. Now you might not want to sit your bare butt on the

1:26.2

soil yourself, especially if you live in an urban area with neighbors close by,

1:30.1

or maybe you do, who might have judge?

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