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Harvest Fall Success with Kevin and Jacques

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The hosts question whether no-till should be forced in every garden.

1. The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers episode "Harvest Fall Success with Kevin and Jacques" centers on fall gardening, seasonal harvests, and soil management. 2. Kevin and Jacques are the hosts, and they frame the episode around their own gardens, a recent UK trip, and the Grove Edge garden planner. 3. The episode asks what fall gives a gardener that summer does not, and the answer is more time, less pressure, and easier maintenance. 4. Kevin says fall feels "slower" and "more peaceful" because pests, watering, and heat all ease off. 5. Jacques points to a "definitively" impressive sweet potato patch of about 50 square feet as proof that the season still produces a lot. 6. Kevin says he has already harvested "his first two major heads of broccoli," with broccolini and cauliflower coming next. 7. They both say garden broccoli tastes better than store-bought broccoli, especially when crisped in an air fryer with a yogurty sauce. 8. Kevin says he has his "broccoli on deck" because he planted early and got tired of tomatoes. 9. The conversation moves to cabbages, and Kevin says he planted a 14-cabbage experiment plus a separate six-cabbage spacing experiment. 10. They explain that brassicas, carrots, kale, spinach, and some lettuce can handle cold weather, but snowy climates may need a cold frame. 11. Kevin recommends Nikki Jabbour’s book Gardening Under Cover, and he describes her as "the queen of it up in Nova Scotia." 12. The hosts connect cold weather to sweetness, saying winter cabbages become sweeter and crisp up or caramelize better in the oven. 13. The episode also covers alliums, with Kevin saying he has "zero garlic, zero onions" in the ground and is excited to plant them. 14. Kevin says he is cutting white and red onions down to 20 each because yellow onions are the ones he uses most in cooking. 15. They discuss a refrigeration experiment with soft-neck garlic and an onion-curing experiment that left onions outside under a mulberry tree. 16. Kevin says those outside-cured onions lasted better than the ones stored indoors in a bag. 17. The tone is conversational and practical, with long stretches of back-and-forth gardening advice, personal experiments, and specific crop names. 18. The format also includes travel anecdotes from the UK, including Scotland, peatlands, York, Bakewell, Blenheim Palace, and British garden terminology. 19. Listen if you grow brassicas, plan fall beds, or like soil-management details. 20. Skip if you want tight editing, short runtime, or non-gardening topics.

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