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Twelve Overlooked Vegetables for the Garden – TSP Rewind – Epi-303

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Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In the spring and early summer talk a walk in the garden section of any big store or even typical smaller plant nurseries.  Mostly you see peppers, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and a few other veggies and herbs. There are so many other options though and many are tougher than our stand alone favorites.  Fore instance so many people love growing tomatoes but in many areas they are plagued by early and late blight.  You can usually get a decent yield and then you hit a wall, well why not grow tomatillos instead.  They make fantastic salsa, are great grilled and Continue reading →

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0:00.0

Hi folks, Jack Spirco here.

0:02.2

Today, you are listening to an episode of TSP Rewind.

0:07.1

Commercial-free versions of past episodes.

0:10.2

Podcasts blasts from the pasts.

0:12.1

I put these up when I can't do a show due to professional commitments or rare vacations.

0:16.6

These podcasts will appear in standard iTunes, Stitcher, and other feeds,

0:20.1

but will be titled

0:21.1

TSP Rewind Episodes and numbered accordingly.

0:24.9

And today, we're rewinding back to June the 20th, 2017.

0:29.6

This was originally episode 2007, titled 12 Overlooked Vegetables for the Garden.

0:37.0

I've got another vegetable type of show.

0:39.5

Well, sort of kind of, seeds, vegetables, whatever kind of show for you coming tomorrow during this week of rewinds during TSP 2025 workshop.

0:48.3

And there's a reason I'm kind of drilling down on gardening and vegetables right now.

0:52.1

And it's because we're going into winter.

0:54.3

When you won't be growing much unless you do a winter gardener, grow indoors, or do four-season

0:58.9

gardening or something like that.

1:00.2

But what many of you will be doing right now is planning for the spring.

1:06.1

And if you're not doing it yet, you will be soon.

1:08.6

You'll start going through those seed catalogs. That's

1:11.0

kind of a ritual in the winter around here anyway. January, cold days, December, up around the

1:17.2

holidays and through there, I sit down and with those seed catalog, my Baker Creek catalogs,

1:21.7

like a crack dealer's catalog. What kind of crack do you want this year, you know? Do you want the

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