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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Growing Moringa from Seed

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

I recently acquired some moringa seeds from a fellow gardener, @cubangardener on Instagram. Excited, I started to research moringa and discovered it's an incredible plant with a TON of benefits! Learn how to get moringa trees established in today's show. Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up everyone? How is it going? And how is it growing?

0:04.4

It's Kevin from Epic Gardening, and today we're going to talk about a plant that's, you know,

0:09.6

it's been in my sphere of consciousness, I guess, for a while while but I haven't thought about growing it

0:14.4

until a friend of mine sent me some seeds. Yes yes the seed swap so my friend Eddie from

0:21.0

Cuban Gardner he's on Instagram at Cuban Gardner.

0:24.8

He hit me up and he said, hey, do you want to grow some meringue?

0:26.8

And I said yes, because I say yes to growing anything that I haven't grown before.

0:31.0

So he sent out some meringue seeds.

0:33.2

They came in the mail.

0:34.2

I started doing my research and what I found was quite incredible.

0:37.9

Maringa is a plant that I really need to focus on now and I'd like to just share on the podcast because

0:45.2

although I've, you know, I'm just starting seeds right now, I still think that we should have

0:50.8

a little discussion about potentially growing moringa next season.

0:54.0

First of all, let's talk about why I'm saying that.

0:56.7

So here are some facts.

0:58.7

Gram for gram, moringa can have up to three times the potassium you'd find in a banana, four times the

1:04.1

vitamin A found in a carrot, and seven times the vitamin C found in an orange.

1:09.4

It also has a ton of minerals, vitamins, essential amino acids, phytochemical agents, and

1:17.8

carbohydrates. So as you can see, if you're talking about growing something for nutrient

1:22.3

density,

1:23.6

you've got a really good winter on your hands with Maringa.

1:27.1

As far as growing concerns, it's a resilient tree.

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