Step Into Spring with Kevin and Jacques | The Beet
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 β’ 1.6K Ratings
ποΈ 16 March 2026
β±οΈ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What we've done in the backyard is you take pressure treated, four by four posts. |
| 0:04.1 | Yeah, it lasts a lot longer. |
| 0:05.4 | Last a lot longer. |
| 0:06.4 | The plant's really not interacting with it. |
| 0:08.1 | And you just ram them down two or three feet into the ground with no concrete, no rebar, |
| 0:13.5 | nothing. |
| 0:14.5 | You cram the earth around it. |
| 0:16.4 | And then you put a cross beam across. |
| 0:19.0 | And it's actually better to use two two by fours sandwiched together placed vertically rather than one four by four or like one two by four placed towards a lot because it'll basically bow like crazy. We figured that one out. We figured that one out the hard way. But either way, I mean, this trellis system has lasted for three years only because we had an insane deluge of rain, did one of |
| 0:38.7 | them wash out. Yeah. And it wouldn't be that hard to put back, by the way. |
| 0:44.9 | Jacques, we're back, sun shining on our faces. It feels really nice, I have to say. It honestly |
| 0:49.7 | does, and it's, it's spring, man. Yeah, I know. I know. I've called it. It's officially spring in San Diego. I remember you messaged me and you said, hey, I think it's spring. And it was like maybe early February at that point. Legally, it's not. Legally, it is not. Yeah. But San Diegoly, it is, for sure. And also just looking at the garden right now there's chamomalai |
| 1:12.3 | popping up everywhere oh it smells good dude this is crazy it smells like that green apple that mansona |
| 1:17.8 | just smells so good i love it i love it i might have to get back on that horse hey you know it's right |
| 1:23.9 | here waiting for you to hop on ready for me to. So where are you at with the season right now? |
| 1:29.0 | I am, honestly, it's funny because even though I said it was spring early, at that point, |
| 1:35.3 | I hadn't even started my tomatoes, which is weird. |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah, that's weird. |
| 1:39.0 | Usually I start them in January. |
| 1:41.0 | I'm a little bit, even a little early. |
| 1:43.4 | This year, I waited until the first week of February and I feel okay. |
| 1:49.0 | I have like all of my tomatoes, my first ones are up in six cells, so they're going to get potted up maybe today. |
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