How to Use Every Part of a Squash

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Growing up in Italy, Alessandro was accustomed to using most of the plant in cooking. When he got to the UK, he found this was not typical. Here he discusses the ways gardeners can get more out of their veggies. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3RIcg9L Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3rzJvl7 Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/45c5Oew EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3rrsTvX Learn More: 25+ Plants That You Can Regrow From Your Kitchen Scraps Connect With Alessandro Vitale: Alessandro Vitale is also known as “Spicy Moustache”. Based in London, he’s been an Urban farmer for almost a decade and a content creator for the past 2 years. His channel focuses on gardening and maximizing the production of food in a small space. Other topics include foraging wild food, and how to use every part of your fruit and vegetables for a more sustainable life even in the middle of the city. Alessandro’s goal is to educate people not only to grow their own food, but also to reduce their impact on the environment. Instagram Website Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Every gardener knows you don't plant too many squash, but you have to learn it the hard
0:08.0	way.
0:09.0	I've learned it the hard way.
0:10.0	I think every year I think I keep making this mistake.
0:12.0	Spicy Monsters, you've learned it the hard way.
0:14.0	Alice Under Vitale, back on the show.
0:16.0	Your book, Rebel Gardening, as well as the stuff you put out is really all about don't
0:21.3	throw the plant away.
0:23.1	Use every single piece of it.
0:24.6	And so when you get to a squash, there's just so many different ways to use it.
0:29.4	So what are some of your favourites?
0:31.4	Well, especially because it's an Italian.
0:33.4	So like, if you go to South Italy and some markets, you can still find like leaves for
0:40.9	sales, like bunch of leaves that they sell to people, which is amazing.
0:45.4	Something that you didn't even think about.
0:49.4	Not long ago I went to the farmers market and they had carrots and I saw like a box with
0:57.3	all the tops removed.
0:59.3	And I was like, what's going on?
1:01.3	And this guy told me that basically everyone asked to, you know, it's a lack of knowledge
1:07.8	in terms of how to use things, how to, it's just about thinking out of the box, you
1:14.5	know, sometimes experimenting and learning even online.
1:19.1	And with squash, for example, just so many things that you can do, like obviously it's
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