Hot Takes: What Would We Do Differently Next Year?

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	Every year we try to grow something a little bit different. This year I have a couple things
0:16.6	I'm going to be adding a couple things I'm going to be changing, especially given that I have a
0:20.2	greenhouse. Now I have to think about that. Well give me your hot take what are you what are you not growing next year?
0:25.0	What am I not going?
0:27.0	Oh, honestly, too many tomatoes.
0:31.0	You oh wow.
0:32.0	I never thought I hear that out your mouth but I keep the sin I keep lying to you guys
0:37.0	Sorry I keep telling you I'm gonna grow less varieties and still grow a lot of tomatoes and I keep like let me just add one more variety here
0:46.0	one more variety there it was a slop fest this year I had way too many varieties I
0:50.4	didn't get what I wanted so I think this year I promise guys I'm going to grow less
0:56.2	varieties but I will be growing up right into the camera and say that jock I'm
1:00.4	going to be growing less varieties I'm not less tomatoes and I'm going to be growing less varieties, I'm not less tomatoes, and I'm going to space them more.
1:06.0	Okay. That's my, that's for sure changing.
1:09.0	And also, melons, I might be entirely out on.
1:13.3	I've got so burnt out on them.
1:15.2	Here, they do well.
1:16.4	I think it's because you have more like open sunspots.
1:18.8	Yeah.
1:19.2	But they just, no matter what I try, they just take so long long and then I just feel like they're not as good.
1:25.6	I think in my garden they do better because I have an area that I can just let them
1:30.4	be melons right I can let them fully sprawl I try to contain them right and so I think
1:35.3	that's why I will say I think this was one of my more balanced years in the garden I
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