Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening podcast.

Jacques is back on the show so in the beginning of our week, Jacques, you mentioned that you

have a background in science and so first of all, what is that background?

Sure, so my background is I got my bachelor's and my master's in geology, so study

at birth sciences more specifically and kind of looking at geochemistry and actually was

also pursuing my PhD and currently I put that on pause which I'm very happy about but

yeah, congratulations.

I picked up a lot of research skills along the way.

So this episode is about how to solve a garden problem.

This is almost the Holy Grail episode I think for me because if we can get this across

to you listening, it means that you actually know how to become a gardener and solve your

own problems which is the whole point of Epic Gardening.

It's to teach you how to be a gardener and not how to grow a tomato right because it's

trying to get you from I don't know how to grow anything to I know how things grow and

what prevents them and boosts them and so let's imagine for example, Jacques, that you

have a crop like corn right and you see some sort of defective pattern on the kernel.

How are you even thinking about how to solve that problem just based on your research background?

Yeah, I mean, so that's a good example.

So a lot of things that it's basically like causal effect.

So for instance, when we're looking at the corn like the other day, we picked the near

of corn off the, so there's like five rows of corn and the most extreme right end.

There was an ear that had very, very poor pollination.

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