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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Planting Varieties For Your Region

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

One of the biggest mistakes we can make as gardeners is growing plants that simply don't work for our region. To help hammer this point home, I brought on John Kohler from Growing Your Greens, the largest gardening YouTube channel in the world! This entire week is with John, so stay tuned for some EPIC tips. Learn More: Growing Your Greens OKRaw Discount Juicers Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone Kevin from Epic Gardening here today. I have a super special guest and actually the rest of the week

0:06.6

We're gonna have this particular guest on and it is none other than

0:11.1

John Kohler from Growing Your Greens.

0:13.0

That's my best John Kohler impression.

0:15.4

He can tell me if I did a good job or not.

0:17.7

Today we're talking about growing varieties

0:20.1

that work for your region and your location because that's one of the things that John thinks a lot of people don't do well and

0:26.2

it's something that he definitely does particularly well so I'm going to go ahead and

0:29.7

let him talk about that.

0:36.0

All right, it's John Kohler with Growing Your Greens.com. Anyways, I'm on Kevin's show and today I'm going to be talking about about growing varieties at work.

0:39.4

So, you know, I used to live in Northern California and in Northern California were blessed with

0:43.8

really nice climate right I mean you could grow so many things in Northern

0:47.2

California if you're in Northern California right now consider yourself lucky

0:50.2

and blessed but once I actually moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, I learned that, you know, some things

0:55.9

in Las Vegas, especially in the summer when it's 100 plus degrees, don't actually work. So this

1:02.2

got me really interested into like learning about

1:04.9

specific varieties of plants or kinds of plants

1:07.4

that will grow better or worse in certain regions

1:10.5

and sub-regions.

1:11.1

I mean, for example, in San Francisco, where I was born you know they have like

1:14.3

you know different kinds of tomatoes that you could grow that will do well in the

1:17.9

cool foggy weather that don't need so much heat you know and likewise in Las Vegas in the summertime

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