any bird will dominate an infant...

Thank you Kevin. This was so informative.

It's interesting to hear about the different products available! I don't live in the US and here, everyone uses "garden soil" for containers, raised beds, and topping up in ground beds with or without extra additions like perlite, and it's very effective. I think the ingredients must be different.

Great video, you two are simply awesome!!

The OG team!

It’s crazy to me how little amount of experiments have been performed and yet we gardeners confidently say what works best. I’m in healthcare and research is the foundation of the entire industry, along with care itself.

Sounds close to carrot slaw but without the raisins.

Love your stuff and love aquascapes/fishkeeping. Epic Gardening inspired me to start growing my own garden and this year I've upped my game with some raised beds and I just purchased a greenhouse for overwintering my santaka chiles and hopefully building an aquaponics system. I also keep medaka rice fish. They're a great option for small water features, and could be a colorful small fish option for your pond as long as the other fish don't eat them 😅

What evidence is there for synthetic fertilizers killing off beneficial soil life in-ground?

Idk if I’d test something toxic that way…😅

I have caught my chickens eating their own eggs, I feed high protein layer feed and scratch

I could listen to you both for hours. Love the content and how natural the conversation flows.

I’d love to see a mycelium/soil life count in the organic vs synthetic beds as well

I'm confused how is it that I jus kno of this podcast...

Awww I have such a crush on Jacques he seems so kind 🙂

Both of you look soooooooo tired, get some rest boys

Fully agree with some shade for peppers My habaneros, Serranos, tobascos are all doing well. But for whatever reason I have had trouble with bell pepper varieties. Not sure what the deal is but I am on my second year of not doing so hot with those (pun intended)

The beginning of this reminded me of the concept of: good, better, best. ANYONE who is growing their own food is doing something good and I won’t judge them for using synthetic if that is what is getting them in the garden. Better is obviously leaning toward organic growing principles. Best is growing organically and working toward that self-sufficient closed loop circuit. I don’t use synthetic ingredients in my garden but I won’t hate on someone who does. The food they’re growing is just replacing other food that is also grown synthetically that they’re buying in the grocery store.

Put chopped boiled eggs in your potato salad. Or if you like pastrami sandwiches top it with egg salad! Yum!

Hey know I love your chaotic recipes!

We like the weird stuff! 😆

If you still have the harvest right freeze dryer, you can freeze dry the eggs. The egg powder they say will keep for 20 years in the mylar bags. You know for the ( deep creepy voice with action music in the background) APOCALYPSE! Whoooaaaahhh... Effect for my own entertainment, and Eric, I think he likes freeze dried eggs. lol

Jess Sowards in S. Carolina just keeps sowing summer squash because she hasn't found a way to get away from mildew. When one succumbs, another one is ready to take its place.

Great video 👏 👏 Kev and Jacques are the best 👌

QUESTION: Kevin, do you pesto your nasturtiums? They are so peppery, it makes sense to use the entire plant.

Garden ornamentals - 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, do weeds count🤔🤔

If you want to do a test like you say here 6:39 you need to really think it through. Small variables may seem like you are going into the weeds but they matter. They would need to be clones from a plant that is know for consistency and cut the clone from the same section of the plant because the hormones in the plant do change a lot from old growth and new. Temperature of the soil needs to be consistent regardless of how hard it may seem to achieve. The vpd should all be the same as well as the DLI for each of the clones. You would need to do a ph and ec check for consistency for all of the soils used.

Timing issues: cold weather late in UK season resulted in spuds only being sown in MAY😮. But I will plant 1st earlies soon for late harvest. Tomatoes, I kept to determine...

QUESTION 1: do you gents make tomato jam??? I am thinking of making that this year🤔. QUESTION 2: Jacques, what do you do with your Amaranth?

My suggestion that loads might already have done - nasturtium pesto is delicious 😋😋, use the same olive oil, parmesan, garlic and even a little balsamic glaze🤔, oh and pine nuts

Would be very interesting to see the bagged soil experiment done in different ways and see the results 1. From year to year just adding a small amount of the same type each year to top off, 2. Organic and unfertilized soils with a natural fertilizer added, and 3. All of the bagged soils sifted to remove as much of the woody bits as possible.

I have found some commercial compost that had lots of chunks of wood with various colors of paint on it. (Blue, green,white) I was appalled & tried to take it back for a refund. The place where I bought it refused to refund my money & didn’t even offer a trade/substitution. This was during the height of the pandemic & some businesses felt that they could get by with practices like that because of the supply/demand dynamic.

Organics are great until you get into hydroponics.

Yea please do the video tests. I thought Kellogg’s was great. As you know from your experiment …. Not I need to fix it really want to know the best way.!

I feel like you could have a dedicated youtube channel just for "farm to fork" cooking! 😋🍲🥘🍽

Love your content! Subscribed to everything! Love from Lakeside, CA

40:01 I liked freak frittatas. you taught me not to be afraid with experimenting and completely blowing off a dozen fresh laid eggs.

If you have a ton of eggs, I recommend making Angel food cake with all the egg whites and then you can make homemade ice cream with all the egg yolks. Or make a huge batch of custard and fill up a bunch of cream puffs. You lighten the custard by mixing with whipped cream and then you have amazing cream puffs that are just like Beard Papa’s. Dim sum style egg custard tarts are another way to go. It’s basically a mini custard pie. Ramen eggs are a great way to eat them for lunch/dinner. Just make a rice bowl and have tasty ramen eggs for every meal. Don’t have to just have eggs for breakfast. We make French toast and egg & cheese sandwiches for breakfast on the regular.

With the fertilizer experiment, could you do a bag with just being topped off with compost as the fertilizer? I use homemade compost throughout the season as my fertilizer and my plants love it. It also helps with the raised bed shrinkage that naturally happens.

Carrots, get a Fullstar chopper to quickly cube them anD then blanch, freeze in 1 or 2 cup measures vacuum sealed. I love pulling them out to throw in soups and stews. Also, my Lee Valley 10 year garden diary is a life saver, it’s a serious game changer. Normally I would be freaking out right now because we have had such a cold spring that I think I won’t get a pepper or sweet potato harvest but I can see that in previous years I have actually planted as late as June 20 and had great harvests.

My teeth started shifting back in college when my retainer broke - unfortunately you have to wear a retainer at night forever if you don't want them shifting back. 😵

I'm really curious about the difference in microbiology in a container vs. in ground. It's definitely not sterile. I do include compost. But am I wasting my time adding granular organic fertilizers? Currently I split the difference and use granular organic at planting and then carry on with water soluble synthetic.

Sauerkraut made with 100% grated carrots ….carrotkraut…. is FANTASTIC!

Wow, the difference is so stark in the camera equipment you use between this channel and your main Epic Gardening channel. This shows more true to life flaws and details, whereas the other camera smooths out and adds motion picture latency to your main videos. So interesting!

Where is the native nursery you mentioned. I would love to add more native plants.

3 out of the top 4 soils in the soil tests were Miracle Gro. I’m still surprised by those results and happy that most of my plants are thriving in it. It was the cheapest and easiest to get. $13 for the 55qt bag of Moisture Control. Funny thing is, I looked down on my mom for using it then said screw it because of the price and the quality was better than the super cheap soil I originally bought 😂😂😂 ❤ I apologized ❤❤❤❤❤

Lime your eggs.

I can’t seem to grow nasturtiums. They grow like crazy then don’t bloom. ??

Eric is so mad about mircle grow being awesome, lol. Respect for still putting out the soil test video. Synthetics will not kill your soil life. You two are very dogmatic, but you live in Cali, so it's expected.

I’m growing my peppers in bags. I lined them up along the fence on the west side of my yard, about 3ft away. The light is perfect and hot afternoon sun isn’t a problem. Hot here in south Texas 🥵