Tell Me a Little Secret

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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According to Jacques and Kevin, grafting does work! Jacques grafted his Cherokee Purple tomatoes, and Kevin air-layered his fig tree. In this pod, there is a treasure trove of tips and tricks focused on grafting, and so much more. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/49DKIsO Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3SLDpt3 Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/49JcfJi EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3MLd5eE Learn More: 19 Cool Gardening Gifts To Shop This Black Friday Shop the Store As 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. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking 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 Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, and Jacques) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm going to tell me a little secret shock a little secret, Jacques.
0:14.0	A little secret.
0:15.0	Yeah, tell me a little secret.
0:16.0	Well, one secret that I learned this here is that grafting does work.
0:20.0	Grafting actually does work.
0:21.0	Yeah, you might get a little weirdness on the timing but both of us
0:23.3	crafted tomatoes and I have to say my Cherokee Purple did quite well even though it was
0:28.3	way behind. It's still healthy and it's actually producing tomatoes now in November.
0:33.2	So that's the verdict for you.
0:35.3	To me, I think I probably could have done grafting better from a process.
0:39.6	I was like technique.
0:40.4	It was my first year grafting.
0:41.6	I could have done it better but it did seem like
0:44.6	it delayed the crop significantly and I can't help but think that part of that
0:49.7	seasonal yeah but the other ones weren't as delayed.
0:53.2	And then I don't know that I noticed as much of a difference
0:57.1	as I would have hoped, except for the fact
0:58.9	like you're saying that it's producing now,
1:01.0	but that just could be because it's delayed.
1:02.6	Yeah, so here's my, if you asked me two months ago,
1:06.0	I would have been like, not worth, I'm not gonna do it again.
1:08.3	Yeah.
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