Summer Plans with Kevin and Jacques in the Garden | The Beet

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In this full episode of the Beet Podcast, Kevin and Jacques get together at the Epic Homestead to take a look ahead to summer, and a look back at spring. Topics range from what they’re excited about, and what they would change. Within the discussion are plenty of tips and tricks gardeners can employ in their own gardens. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3Vqac6x Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4cl8t9o Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/4ej7AQB EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/45rskl5 Learn More:17 Cherry Tomatoes for Your Summer GardenConnect With Jacques in the Garden:It’s almost summer time! Kevin and Jacques talk about their plans for the warm season in their 2024 gardens. They look back on their wins, discuss their test garden, and cover their plans for summer gardening. As the new season approaches, they consider new ways to grow. Apply to the Epic Affiliate Program. Shop the StoreAs an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including The Beet Podcast, Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden and Botanical Interest ) Instagram (Including Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.7	I'm going to Hey there guys, guys, thanks for tuning in. This is the long-form version of the Beat podcast, all the week's episodes in one hour-ish long nugget that you can play while you're hopefully in the
0:25.7	garden so enjoy.
0:27.7	Welcome my friends to the Beat Podcast with the Garden Hermit Jacques himself.
0:34.0	We're actually hanging out in my backyard at the Epic Gardening Headquarters right next to the
0:37.6	greenhouse, June Bloom Jacques.
0:39.8	Oh yeah, it's slowly here.
0:41.0	Not the best vibe, but I have to say the light's nice here in the
0:44.0	garden. It is nice and it's also nice to be in the experimental patch.
0:47.1	Yeah where we're a little bit half and half here. The standard garden and the
0:50.4	experiment zone. Foot in two worlds. Foot in two worlds.
0:53.1	Well, why don't we talk about that to start?
0:54.6	Because this was the biggest evolution
0:56.0	in our gardening experience, I think,
0:59.4	I think this year is setting up this test garden
1:02.0	where we're testing all these different
1:03.2	common wisdoms that you hear and so the way that you guys actually built this you and
1:07.2	Paul built a test garden in the backyard here it's about 16 feet by 16 feet and we divided that into a 4 by 4 grid of this is a little confusing of 4 by 4 plots
1:20.5	So there's 16 4 by 4 plots which gives us the ability we kind of divided it with some
1:25.8	lanyard it gives us the ability to create very specific areas where we're
1:29.4	measuring and monitoring certain experiments so you're actually just wrapped on one of the coolest ones
1:34.2	I think we've ever done, so why don't you just talk about that?
1:36.1	Yeah, that one was really fun.
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