Growing Your Own Lentils

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Learn from the expert, grow your own lentils! Not only can you harvest your very own lentils fairly easily, you can also improve your soil for the following crop. Enter the Grow and Grill Giveaway here. You may enter starting Monday June 12th - Tuesday June 20th. You may only enter 1 time. A winner will be announced on Wednesday, June 21st. Grow and Grill Giveaway by Epic Gardening and Palouse Brand Farm 1 Beige Original 6-in-1 Birdies Metal Raised Garden Bed 2 Epic 6 Cell Seed Starting Trays A bundle of Botanical interests seeds Yeti cooler Coleman grill Five varieties of lentils + plus some additional legumes from Palouse Brand Connect With Sara Mader: Sara Mader is Co-Founder and CEO of Palouse Brand, a fifth-generation farm operation producing grains, dry beans, and pulses in southeast Washington State. Sara quickly saw a need for a direct to consumer, farm-to-table, business model that bridged a necessary consumer conversation gap for farm-to-table products. Palouse Brand was created out of this need and conversation, and since has been able to reach consumers across the United States with fresh family farmed non-GMO grains and legumes. Sara also wanted to run her company differently and sought to create an alternative, flexible work environment for women in our rural communities, that provides time and space for both family and work. This platform has transpired into a predominantly female led company, with women running both the behind the scenes work as well as the packaging line. Palouse Brand Lentils Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok Website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you're wondering how to grow lentils at home successfully, unlike myself in prior
0:17.2	years, well today's episode is for you.
0:19.5	We have Sarah made her back on the show.
0:21.9	She is from Paloose brand, fifth generation farm operation that yes grows 8 ton of lentils
0:27.5	as we heard in yesterday's show.
0:29.0	So Sarah, let's just imagine I have a simple raised bed, maybe one of our birdies raised
0:34.2	beds that we're doing in this giveaway that we're doing with you guys, which I'm super
0:37.3	grateful that you guys are collaborating with us on.
0:41.7	How do I get started here?
0:43.8	Yeah, so that's a great question.
0:47.9	Lentils are pretty easy to grow.
0:50.5	So I would take the lentil seed of our lentil type.
0:55.2	So we offer five different lentils on our website.
0:58.6	Our cardina lentils, our green lentils, and our black lentils, or the brown lentils,
1:04.8	black lentils, and green lentils will sprout.
1:07.7	The red is on the yellows will not sprout and we can talk about why in a little bit.
1:12.7	But those lentils are super easy and require very little water to plant.
1:19.6	So here at our farm, we get 20 inches of water on average a year and think that's spread
1:24.7	out over 365 days.
1:27.2	So it's a, they'd be easy to plant in with your potatoes.
1:31.7	That would be a great companion plant near cucumbers.
1:35.6	But when you put those seeds in the ground, and I would direct seed them, I would not start
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