Meg’s Favorite Tomato Varieties

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Meg is growing 15 different varieties of tomatoes! She covers the different types in her garden and highlights a couple of interesting and exotic varieties. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3EfeMMY Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3qPGMDH EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3YPA2lT Connect With Meagan Lloyd: Meg Lloyd currently grows, preserves, and cooks her own food in a small backyard garden in North Carolina. She started gardening three years ago, and it has given her a new appreciation for food. She has learned so much about how to prepare the fresh garden produce that she harvests. And now, she’s sharing her love for gardening and garden-to-table meals with the world! Instagram TikTok YouTube Blog 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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's tomato episode day here on the show.
0:05.8	We have Megan Lloyd back on the podcast, Megas plants on Instagram, always love talking
0:10.6	to other gardeners about how and why and what type of tomatoes they are growing.
0:15.4	So talk to me about your tomato garden right now, Megan.
0:18.2	Yeah, so I have about 15 different varieties that I'm growing this year.
0:23.8	I'm going to have them in a few different beds and I'm growing some really unique varieties
0:30.0	that I've never grown before.
0:33.0	One of them being the traveler tomato, have you ever seen a traveler's tomato?
0:37.2	No, I don't think so.
0:39.6	So it's like a cluster, it's like a big tomato that has a bunch of different clusters.
0:45.3	It's almost like seven cherry tomatoes on one tomato and you can pick them all and eat
0:53.1	them.
0:54.1	Yeah, and it's super interesting, yeah, apparently it's from Central America where the native
1:00.1	people would take them on trips with them and that's why it's called travelers tomato
1:04.4	because they would snack on them as they're walking.
1:07.8	Yeah.
1:08.8	Does it have another name?
1:11.4	Does it go by Ryze to Matae?
1:13.2	No, it's called Phil's one.
1:15.2	It's the one that I'm going to go with.
1:17.2	Phil's one.
1:18.2	But there's a bunch of different ones.
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