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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Get Your Garden Into Crank Mode

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Kevin and Jacques never know which part of their summer gardens will pop off. This year, it’s corn for Kevin, and tomatoes for Jacques. Is it a couple of seasons of compost added to the top of a raised bed that gets J and K into crank mode? Find out here!
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0:00.0

I'm here with the hermit.

0:03.6

I'm here with the hermit.

0:14.6

Jacques himself.

0:16.4

Good to be back.

0:17.7

We're back.

0:18.7

We're in the garden.

0:18.7

We're actually roasting up a storm right now.

0:20.9

My gams, as they're called called my legs are roasting yeah you're wearing a shirt I'm being

0:27.6

protected for once like a long-slee shirt he's looking professional guys but there's a

0:31.2

deep coat underneath is. Is there little UV

0:33.6

protection? We're back in the Beat podcast with Jacques. We're doing at least a week of

0:38.2

the podcast every month, just you and I, hanging out in the garden. If you haven't

0:42.4

gotten around to listening

0:44.0

and watching the beat podcast you can do so on our YouTube channel it's the beat

0:48.1

podcast we'll put it in the podcast description but where are we right now we are in the front garden among all of these

0:54.5

beautifully planted birdies beds and it's looking good. I'm jealous of your corn I'm

0:58.9

just gonna say that right off the bat it's taunting me I'm looking right at it

1:02.4

and it looks really good like

1:04.3

really good I had Jacques sit across from me so you could see the corn so you can see his

1:08.0

failures and and similarly you know your tomatoes this year I mean are

1:12.4

crushing way way better than Similarly, you know, your tomatoes this year are crushing.

1:14.0

Way better than mine.

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