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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Exciting Garden Projects at Jacques

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Jacques shares a few major projects he's working on in the garden this fall, including a huge irrigation project. Connect with Jacques: Jacques in the Garden  Jacques' Instagram Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design.   Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's never a short supply of gardening products to do, whether it's at the homestead or

0:18.3

in your gardens out there listening to the podcast, I'm sure some of you are walking

0:21.8

around in the garden right now looking at a project that has yet to be completed, but

0:26.9

we have our garden hermit here, Jacques.

0:29.5

What are you excited about getting done this fall, maybe this winter when things slow

0:33.6

down a little bit?

0:34.6

Totally.

0:35.6

So, I guess first of all, I just finished a major-ish project and that's I built a squash

0:41.6

tunnel.

0:42.6

That's one of these things I've always wanted to do, you know, like one of those, usually

0:45.7

it's made out of like cattle panel, you put a squash plant on it and you get squash

0:49.8

hanging off everywhere you go and it just kind of looks really funny.

0:53.5

And it's a great way to actually gain real estate in your garden.

0:56.6

So things like trellises to me are one of the underrated things that we both probably

1:01.6

should be doing a lot more of is having vertical space.

1:04.5

It's like when you're in the city and you run out of space, you build a skyscraper.

1:08.6

Same thing in the garden.

1:09.6

If you run out of space, you need to build a trellis and you need to let your plants climb

1:12.6

up and you gain way more space that way.

1:15.4

So that's really exciting.

1:16.4

I actually just posted that on YouTube, so if you guys want to see how I built that, go

1:19.8

check it out.

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