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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Backyard Science with Kevin and Jacques | The Beet

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This episode has been brought to you by Fox Farm, crafting soil and fertilizers since 1984. Supercharge your plants by locating a Fox Farm retailer near you: https://foxfarm.com/find-a-dealer/ Episode Description: Spring has officially sprung, and Jacques and Kevin are enjoying it! In this episode of the Beet Podcast, they get into the nitty-gritty of garden glow-ups with spacing tweaks, topping peppers, and pruning basil. With their mole issues finally behind them, the focus shifts to fertilizing – what to use, when to apply it, and how to keep plants thriving all season long. Support The Beet: → Shop: https://growepic.co/shop  → Seeds: https://growepic.co/botanicalinterests  Learn More: → All Our Channels: https://growepic.co/youtube  → Blog: https://growepic.co/blog  → Podcast: https://growepic.co/podcasts  → Discord: https://growepic.co/discord  → Instagram: https://growepic.co/insta  → TikTok: https://growepic.co/tiktok  → Pinterest: https://growepic.co/pinterest  → Twitter: https://growepic.co/twitter  → Facebook: https://growepic.co/facebook  → Facebook Group: https://growepic.co/fbgroup  → Love our products? Become an Epic affiliate! https://growepic.co/3FjQXqV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

How much are you really losing organic matter-wise or nutrient density wise from that patch of soil

0:05.6

relative to planting them properly, so to speak?

0:07.9

Yeah. You're definitely going to need to remember that if you do tight-spacer, you're

0:11.5

going to have to water more often. It's going to dry out faster because there's more root competition.

0:15.5

You probably need more fertility to begin with. Yeah. So depending on the time of year, that could matter, like if it's in the rainy season, probably doesn't matter at all. But in the summertime, when things are actually

0:24.4

really fighting for water, that's when the tight spacing could probably get against you.

0:34.1

Hey, there's some lunch for you, Jock. It's fitting for another episode of the beat.

0:38.7

Welcome back to the beat. So we're back, Jacques. The sun is out, but it's also not out. It's

0:43.3

kind of a bit of a spotty day. We're just past the start of spring. Yes. And you can feel it.

0:48.3

Yeah, you can feel it. It feels good. Feels really good. A lot of birds, a lot of chatter. These beats, they wouldn't be this big if it wasn't spring.

0:55.0

Jeez, that thing is huge, yeah.

0:57.0

I can't.

0:58.0

There is a big crack in the back, though.

0:59.0

Look at that.

1:00.0

All right, we'll show you the truth.

1:01.0

No one told you that.

1:02.0

That's a rain crack.

1:03.0

But here's what's been happening with me.

1:05.0

Yeah.

1:06.0

There's a lot of updates. Okay. Number one, I spent some time in the sun. I got a little bit of a tan

1:12.5

a little bit of a Filipino tan coming back. So I'm trying to come back to my people. Number two,

1:19.4

I was not feeling so good about myself on Sunday. Right. So I said, you know what? Let's do a little

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