Yesterday you heard that Jacques's tomatoes, his corn, his peppers, and even his eggplants

are doing really well, and the question now is, Jacques, I have for you is why do you

think that is?

What did you do that's different than last year?

Right, so actually I'd say this year more than before, I've tried to consistently actually

build all my beds now in a low-till sort of lasagna method, and that seems to work really

well right now.

So, except for that bush bean bed, which we won't talk about right now, but basically

I've just been doing the very classic method of stacking carbon by using a lot of straw,

and then once I have that straw, I'll throw down a lot of nice, rich compost, and so that's

how I built my corn bed, that's how I built my pepper beds, my tomato beds, and all of

those are doing really, really, really wonderfully right now.

So, I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that I'm not messing with the soil as much,

and I'm also adding in a lot of fertility through that compost.

And the nice thing about it too that I've noticed is that the beds that I've added, the straw

and the compost layer, have been the easiest in terms of water management.

So, that's a big part of it too, is that I've had more drip irrigation installed now

than I did before, I'm watering less by hand, and I think my soil is just doing a better

job of retaining all that water and nutrients, so that's a big part of it.

This year I also decided to change up my variety selection, so for example, in my Florida

weave, I have my two tomatoes that the seed packets cost $15 each, so I ended up paying

basically a dollar a seed, but man, I'll tell you, the first results from it are really

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