Summer Garden: What We Learned from Our Garden this Summer

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	This is a special week. I've got the Garden Hermit back on the show. Say hello, Jacques.
0:07.3	Good to be back. Good to be back. We're in a much better situation. We used to share one
0:12.6	mic. And now we have two mics and we actually have a couple cameras because there's a new
0:18.7	channel out called The Beat. We're very exciting. And that is the new name of the Epic Gardening
0:24.9	podcast. We're renaming it The Beat, a podcast for plant lovers, Jacques, no better person to
0:30.0	have on than the Hermit himself. I do love plants. And I love talking about plants. So I'm excited
0:34.9	to get into this. Well, let's talk about the summer garden. And you know, as we record this,
0:40.2	it is midsummer. Yeah. And it feels like it feels like midsummer. It is upwards of 90 Fahrenheit
0:47.9	right now. The garden's cranking. My stuff's a little behind. I have to say like my tomatoes and
0:52.8	peppers at least are behind because of our weird spring. Yeah. This was actually a very interesting
0:59.7	year for us because I don't think we could have really predicted it the way it came. It was very cold
1:04.8	in the beginning, but we also had a lot of rain. So I think both you and I had more fungal diseases
1:09.7	than we've ever had. Yeah. And then of course, just now like this week is the first like truly
1:16.0	hot week where I could feel like it's actually hot. Yeah. High grade. Yeah. So the plants were a
1:21.1	little bit slow, but now they're really starting to grow quickly. And I think we're going to have a
1:25.6	lot of work out of us. Yeah. What's crazy is I was gone. I was out of town for I was a groomsman
1:30.7	in a wedding. A very fun wedding was actually at a hay farmers farm. Okay. So a little touch. You
1:36.7	know, a little touch. But yeah, it took a little mulch home. But regardless, when I came back,
1:42.5	the peppers were good three inches taller in about seven days, like no joke. Yeah. Because once
1:48.2	the heat comes in at the first time in the season, the plants respond in kind. Like the first time
1:54.0	it gets hot, like you said, I know it's the corn's going crazy, the peppers going crazy, tomatoes
1:58.3	going crazy. Yeah. And I actually have I was really grateful that I got my tomatoes in a little
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