Looking Back: Jacques' Garden Update

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Now it’s time to revisit this 2022 garden update from Kevin and Jacques, our resident Garden Hermit! This episode aired just after an uncharacteristic winter freeze that happened in their gardens. See how they managed to deal with this sudden shift, and more. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/41mmZcR Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3TmFqwf Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/46WcWML EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3NkJ8CM 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 (Including Epic Homesteading, and Jacques) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello my friends Kevin here from Epic Gardening we are recuperating resting and
0:16.7	planning for 2024 so today's episode is a rerun of some of our favorites from years past.
0:23.7	Hope you enjoy.
0:24.4	Welcome back everyone.
0:27.4	Hope you are doing well, hope you're staying warm.
0:29.4	It's actually been weirdly cold here.
0:31.8	And I know when I say cold for us you know a lot of
0:34.5	you were probably rolling your eyes but Jacques your hose and your part of your
0:38.4	garden actually froze over. Yeah I was actually surprised I do get frost usually but this time I went out there to water a mushroom patch
0:45.5	and I went to turn the hose on I tried pushing the little thumb thing to like turn it on
0:50.7	and it wouldn't move and I was like that's weird and I pick it up and the whole
0:54.8	hose is like solid and so I unscrew the actual like hose link part there was fully an ice
1:01.5	core inside the hose and that was surprising like it gets cold here but I've never had a hose entirely freeze through like that was pretty interesting.
1:10.4	I've never had that before the day you were sharing that you got frost I got a
1:15.1	little scared because remember last year when we did the potatoes I had that frost
1:18.5	damage on the potatoes and here it came again I think what it is is we have this coastal sort of breeze that
1:24.9	comes through more or less 24-7 at least a couple miles an hour and I think at
1:30.0	night first of all it gets colder down here where we are relative to most areas of
1:34.8	San Diego.
1:35.8	And then secondly, I think closer towards the ground with the wind kind of whipping through,
1:41.8	you get, I don't even know how much colder, but I would say at least like 5
1:45.6	to 10 degrees cold.
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