What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening

podcast. We are joined for our final episode for now at least with

Silaway Olivera of Suburban Homestead. Really great YouTube channel and I think you guys can tell over the course of this this week of episodes a really thoughtful gardener and just a lot to share on his YouTube channel and otherwise. So excited to have him here for this

final episode and what we're talking about is becoming amateur botanical

explorers and this is something I would say that I've done much more on the edible side growing one-offs of I guess more random plants like a peanut plant or dragon fruit or some of these plants that is it potentially worth the effort in a

strictly production sense definitely not but by learning how that plant

grows you're expanding your overall knowledge of

gardening itself and sort of just deepening your appreciation for nature and

plants. So, I'm curious, some of the things that that you've experimented with and

as well as kind of what you would define a botanical

explorer as.

Yeah, a botanical explorer is when you really become addicted to gardening after a few years

and you need to branch out and find new fixes.

So you're going to find exotic species to try with, try gardening, just to partially for, as you you said the learning experience more than any

any actual practical gain from it a lot of these experiments may be other failures, but sometimes they're not.

So it's not just about getting completely exotic plants that are from somewhere around the world,

although it can be that.

It's also about trying species of varieties

you haven't tried yet that are pretty local.

There are a lot of native things that might be amazing

and you've never tried because they're not commercialized.

For instance, Papa, I've yet to try Papa.

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