Practicing Old Gardening Values

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Over the years, we have lost some of the gardening techniques and practices that were so widely used in the past. Gerald shares some older methods for how he stores some of his harvests. Connect With Gerald Stratford: Overnight Twitter sensation Gerald Stratford shot to fame after his spuds went viral on social media, becoming affectionately known as the Veg King. Subsequently landing a book deal, Gerald has shot ad campaigns for fashion brands Gucci and MCQ and is a regular guest on Steph’s Packed Lunch. Instagram TikTok Twitter Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back my friends to the Epic Gardening Podcast.
0:14.9	We are joined again by Gerald Stratford, the Veg King.
0:19.5	And we talked yesterday about his journey through cabbages, something that I'm trying to
0:24.2	grow myself in a large fashion.
0:27.5	And at the end of yesterday, Gerald, you were talking about how you and your wife have
0:32.6	tried some of these older methods of preserving or dehydrating foods.
0:38.0	And I was curious, you know, if we could talk a little bit more about some of those
0:42.6	techniques.
0:43.6	Yes.
0:44.6	I mean, it's so nice to embrace modern methods for all sorts of things, but never ever
0:51.2	forget your roots, because those roots are cast in stone forever.
0:59.3	And there's always something you can use like I still got some of the tools my father had,
1:07.1	because there's nothing modern better.
1:11.3	You know, I have a fork and a spade, which has got a long handle, a six foot handle.
1:20.1	And you can dig with it and work with it without getting a bad back, because you're not
1:27.5	bending over.
1:29.0	Now, in the UK, you can never see everything is the uniform three foot long.
1:38.4	Every handle on a fork or spade is the same size, which is encouraging you to have a bad
1:46.4	back.
1:47.4	Yeah.
1:48.4	I think for me, I'm a pretty tall guy.
1:50.9	I'm six foot four.
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