The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers · Epic Gardening

Grow Into the New Year with Kevin and Jacques

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Kevin says a bare-root peach tree gave him over 20 peaches the first year and 60 to 80 the next.

1. The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers focuses on Kevin and Jacques comparing winter garden harvests, pruning plans, and cooking experiments. 2. Kevin and Jacques host the conversation as gardeners who are tracking their own homestead results and referencing their own videos, beds, and fruit trees. 3. The episode asks what a winter garden can actually produce, what pruning fixes, and what garden-grown food they want to cook next. 4. Kevin says the winter light and low sun are his clues that it is winter, while Jacques points to the shaded front yard garden and a big jacaranda. 5. Both hosts describe strong brassica performance, including Brussels sprouts, sweet potatoes, Cheddar Cranberry heads, and purple cauliflowers. 6. Kevin says the garden timing worked because seedlings went out in early September and are now thriving. 7. The citrus section names yuzu, Satsuma, clementines, and Washington Naval oranges, and Kevin estimates at least 100 yuzu and at least 100 Satsumas. 8. Kevin says the citrus on the gray-water system is heaviest, while the trees without that water are the ones lagging. 9. They compare soil to a video game carry, with Kevin saying the soil gets better every year and pays dividends over time. 10. Kevin says his garden is at about a four-year mark and Jacques says his is going into the fifth, while Kevin counts himself at five full years into six. 11. Grapes take a long segment because Kevin says both of them had vines climbing into trees and argues that spur pruning is the key method. 12. Kevin says one cluster of grapes needs roughly 35 to 40 leaves to fully sweeten, which is why unpruned vines produce lots of branches and not enough fruit. 13. Jacques says Kevin's grape trellis climbed into neighbor trees, while Kevin says his own vine went about 20 feet into apple avocado trees. 14. Kevin and Jacques briefly imagine making their own wine, calling it a future glass of Epic Terroir wine and joking about not being patient enough to age it. 15. Pomegranates get their own stretch when Kevin says he became a pomegranate enthusiast and made an ancient Assyrian pomegranate cake with cream, flour, honey, milk, and pomegranates. 16. Jacques recalls that cake as having a tres leches feel, with tartness from lemon and frozen arils still on hand. 17. The tone stays conversational and practical, with Kevin and Jacques moving by association from harvests to pruning to cooking without a formal interview structure. 18. The energy is relaxed and seasonal, with repeated jokes about winter, heavy fruit set, and being ready for a quiet stretch before spring. 19. Listeners who like garden harvests, fruit trees, and home cooking will get the most from it. 20. People wanting a tightly edited recipe or a single topic may want to skip it.

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