Guess who's back on the show? The Garden Hermit shock is here in physical space. This

isn't even the best interview. He's here at the epic office. I'm back. We're here to

talk a little bit about the garden, I think. I think so. So we talked with Chris a little

bit ago and now it is your turn, Jacques. How is the garden going? So the garden right now is in

this like weird middle of summer period where last week I basically called out and challenged

that I had no powdery mildew. It was like two weeks ago. I was like, wow, this year I've got

no powdery mildew. Everything's great. And then now I'm starting to get a little bit of that.

Don't tempt the gods. Don't ever tempt the gods like that again. That's such a risky thing to say.

Yeah, so that's, you know, coming in a little bit, but it's actually still everything's

humming along really well. So I've been getting way more cucumbers than I usually do. I've just

been pruning back aggressively. Tomatoes are coming in fantastically, including probably

sometime the next day. I'll be harvesting a tomato that's well over a pound, maybe close

to two pounds. I'm actually really excited. I'll definitely be sharing on my Instagram when

it's ready. But other than that, like it's been a wonderful year for tomatoes, corn,

peppers, and eggplant for me. It's kind of been like a banner summer crop year. I've had perfect

corn pollination. I'm getting like tons of tomatoes on a nice consistent basis. Your corn

looks really going to have to say. Yeah, it was, it was really quite the surprise. I'm really happy

with how that came out, to be honest. And my peppers are just exploding right now. Like I've never had

such a intensely successful pepper harvest on all ranges of pepper sizes from small ones,

like bikinos and chachitos, up to these giant Italian frying peppers called Escamillo. Like,

I have these 10-inch peppers that are coming in wonderfully and like insanely productive. So

I think it's just like all the effort in spring of trying to prepare the best environment,

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