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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

How to Grow GIANT Veggies

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Ever seen those giant veggies and wondered "How the heck do they grow them THAT big?!" In today's episode we go over the absolute basics to growing giant veg. 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

Hello everyone. How you doing today? Hope the day is wonderful and plants are popping out of the ground just fine

0:07.6

either indoors or outdoors. Today we're going to talk about something truly epic.

0:12.0

Now I'm going to start off with a quick story.

0:14.8

In 2016, the largest pumpkin crushed, smashed, destroyed

0:19.7

the old world record.

0:20.9

It weighed in at 2,624 pounds. Other current world records

0:26.2

include an 18.75 pound onion, a 20.4 foot long carrot, which is crazy to me,

0:33.0

and a 350 and a half pound watermelon,

0:36.0

which means you can grow absolutely massive,

0:40.0

some might even call them epic harvests of some plants. But how do you do it?

0:46.8

That's the real question. This is something that has been puzzling me for a long time because

0:51.7

I found quite a few UK gardeners. It seems like they're the

0:55.5

experts on growing giant vegetables. I found a couple of YouTube videos of UK

0:59.7

gardeners doing some interesting techniques in order to get really really large plants.

1:05.1

Now is this practical if you're growing for our food? No, not really. However it is

1:10.3

very interesting, it's very unique and exciting to do.

1:13.5

So depending on your gardening, you know, motivations,

1:16.6

this might be something you want to experiment.

1:18.2

So I'm going to analyze how you might go about doing this.

1:21.6

And then I'm going to talk a little bit about how I'm setting up

1:24.1

my garden to grow at least a few epic-sized things as we go into spring.

1:30.0

First of all, the most important thing is going to be the genetics.

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