All right, what's up everyone? Kevin here from Epic Gardening. Today we're at the final

episode with John Kohler of Growing Your Greens.com and today's just a rapid fire.

So I put up a picture on Instagram where I ask people to ask me questions to ask John and I figured

we do it in a video but actually we're going to end up doing it in this podcast.

So what I'll do is I'll go through these questions and we'll shout out who asked them and then I'm going to let John answer them as he sees fit.

So the very first one is from G IY Organic.

These are two sisters out in Arkansas doing the homesteading lifestyle, the more rural lifestyle.

So shout out to them. Here's the question.

Tried growing tree kale or tree collards, but it died in the summer. How does John keep his alive? Are they under shade?

All right, so growing tree collards in the summer. So when I lived in Northern California, growing tree collards in the summer was not really that hard and once I started growing in Vegas where the temperatures exceed 100 degrees on a daily basis for quite a period of time, it's definitely challenging. So I have grown tree collards, not under shade in Vegas in full sun.

Probably the most important thing is to have healthy plants.

So have a good soil mix, get the rock dust, get the fungal dominated compost, all the good stuff I like to put in there, but also water appropriately.

One of the things I learned about tree collars is that they would prefer more water than less.

And how did I learn this?

I learned this in a really bad way actually. I was actually away from my place and unfortunately my irrigation broke.

At least fortunately it broke in the on position instead of the opposition because

in the opposition I would have lost on my plants it broke in the on position so that

I had a big water bill but I but everything was getting flooded so in the best growth I ever had in my tree collars

was when the water basically didn't shut off.

Not that I recommend you guys doing that.

But you've got to give them proper water

and they should be properly acclimated.

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