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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Update on the Epic Test Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Kevin and Jacques discuss happenings in the four 4x4 test gardens at the Epic Homestead. Previous experiments involved soil-testing, and tomato-burying. There’s even more experimentation planned to give gardeners a good idea of what works and what doesn’t.
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0:00.0

You hear about best practices in the garden and you probably hear about them from some

0:18.3

random person on Instagram or the internet or some blog post or some old magazine or

0:22.3

this or that.

0:23.5

And I think a lot of us in the garden,

0:24.8

we'd like kind of just believe it.

0:26.2

Yeah.

0:27.2

Oh, yeah, okay, I heard that.

0:27.8

I don't really know where it works because I don't know why.

0:31.0

Yeah, it makes sense.

0:32.0

Makes sense, I guess, right.

0:33.6

And so what we've been doing is actually I was on a trip and Jacques and Paul on the team

0:39.6

converted part of the backyard into a 16 by 16 square foot test garden.

0:44.4

Yeah. Split it into 16 4 by 4 foot blocks, right?

0:49.8

So basically 16 in ground 4 by 4 foot beds, let's call it.

0:54.5

Which allowed us to create potentially 16 different experiments.

0:58.8

And we've never max that out yet.

1:00.0

Maybe this season we will.

1:01.6

But we talked about the soil test one last time

1:03.7

we were chatting, jock, surprising results.

1:06.2

We've completed a few more of these experiments.

1:08.4

Pretty surprising results on those too.

1:10.5

Some un-surprising, some surprising, but regardless,

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