Garden Experiment Successes and Fails

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Kevin and Jacques reflect on their most recent experiments in the garden. They examine what went well, and what didn’t work. Interested parties can see all the fun they had on the Epic Gardening main channel! Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3ulO7fK Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/46gtUVP Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/49JrToi EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3QM7SVr Learn More: 19 Cool Gardening Gifts To Shop This Black Friday Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire 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. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! 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, and Jacques) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What would happen if you bury food scraps in the garden is a question we've asked
0:15.9	ourselves a few times. A lot of gardeners actually have asked this question. We answered
0:19.5	it this year. I think in the most comprehensive way someone has yet to on YouTube yeah and we found
0:26.0	some interesting results I don't think anything we were extremely surprised by but some
0:31.0	interesting demonstrations of gardening principles we talk about a lot.
0:35.4	Yeah.
0:36.4	So why don't you break down the initial setup?
0:37.8	Yeah, so the initial setup, I believe they were six tomatoes.
0:41.4	Yes.
0:42.4	That's it. One was a control control so we just put it in the ground
0:44.4	didn't put anything else in it. The next one had like random weeds and
0:48.4	cuttings from the garden. The other one had the food compost bin from your kitchen counter.
0:53.7	Then there was the leftovers.
0:55.5	I had my sloppy spaghetti and beans
0:57.6	that we dumped in the hole and put a tomato on top of.
1:00.4	And a sourdough starter.
1:01.5	And the sourdough starter, a nice goopy mess.
1:04.0	And the fish heads, a very classic one.
1:07.0	That one, we put quite a few catfish heads.
1:09.8	That was really fascinating when we dug that out.
1:12.0	And the last one is another
1:13.2	classic that you hear all the time which is place an egg under your tomato, maybe
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