Looking Back: Why I Till My Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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While one of our previous reruns was all about no-till, here Kevin pivots toward a conversation about why he tills his garden! With Jacques in the discussion, they admit there are some benefits to tilling. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3Rfjgcu Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://www.botanicalinterests.com/ Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3GDZfra EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/48bgFqT 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.
0:23.6	Hope you enjoy.
0:24.6	Well, I've been a bad boy.
0:28.0	I knew I couldn't get through that with a straight face. I've been a bad boy over here my friends in the epic gardening world.
0:37.0	As we're recording this podcast, I'm actually looking at a photo that I have framed on my wall of myself and the great master himself, Charles
0:46.3	Doubting, one of my great mentors in gardening that I've learned immensely from, and was able
0:50.3	to actually visit his garden and tour and sort of soak it up from the master himself
0:55.2	in person.
0:56.5	And as you know, if you know Charles, you know he's the No Dig Godfather.
1:00.5	That's what he is.
1:01.5	That's what he is. Of course he did not invent no dig you know Ruth
1:04.3	Stout I would say in America at least popularized the idea but this sort of
1:08.4	concept has been around for a long time certainly Charles is the one who's put it on the
1:12.1	map I would say in the current era of gardening, especially with media today.
1:16.4	Yeah, absolutely everyone recognizes him as being a no-dig.
1:19.4	Pioneer.
1:20.4	Yeah, totally.
1:21.4	And so why have I been a bad little boy?
1:24.0	Well, it's because I have started to till.
1:27.0	And a lot of people, when we did our fall garden redesign on the Epic homesteading channel, we did a till. I mean we
1:35.0	tilled a significant portion of that backyard garden, I would say all of it really.
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