I got yalls seed trays & the bottom tray last year and will never use another brand. The durability is outstanding and the design I really don't think can be improved upon. It feels like blasphemy to say but they are even better than Charles Dowdings trays and I am a fan of everything he does.

@epicgardening

7 ай бұрын

Absolutely love to hear this! We're always working on new products in that same line, so anyone reading can check them out here: shop.epicgardening.com/collections/seed-starting-supplies

@adamwpg

6 ай бұрын

@@epicgardening We need shipping to Canada!

@jenniferraine1477

6 ай бұрын

Yes yes yes! Canadians need solid seed trays too!!!@@adamwpg

I am from the area where the rice video is from.we all are rice farmers because all of our local area are clay heavy soil.when we harvest,its like a festivel here.thanks for the reaction.(the food is called sambar,a lentil based recipe)

@AlhadMahabal

7 ай бұрын

Kevin, find an Indian restaurant and eat Sambar Rice... You would surely love it.

@epicgardening

7 ай бұрын

I'l ltry this out!

@gracieshomeandgardens5089

6 ай бұрын

Thats how my folks plant rice backhome.i grew up helping them..after planting my back is killing me..😢

@halfhalf656

4 ай бұрын

Rice planting is hard work! I eat rice every day, really appreciate the farmers ❤️

I'm growing "Bacon wrapped scallop" seedlings right now. They should be ready to harvest just in time for the holidays!

@epicgardening

7 ай бұрын

YUM

@catherinebaldwin6580

7 ай бұрын

Reminds me of a book I read as a kid. The story “Kids, money doesn’t grow on trees! Also we have a bacon tree.”

@Estertje93

6 ай бұрын

I once grew a cheese plant. In the Sims 😂

@baileydubs

5 ай бұрын

Wow that would be an ideal plant 😂

You mean I can't just superglue a potato to a lemon and get a... lemontato tree??

@epicgardening

7 ай бұрын

Sadly :(

@Green24152

Ай бұрын

even if that actually worked it would be pain to get the potatoes gotta uproot a whole-ass TREE

before you try the brick gardening, try and think about what youre planting and how often you want to be doing that. the sand under bricks helps level them and support the weight on top. If you plant things with wide spreading roots and plan on doing that over and over you may end up making the ground uneaven by rooths pushing the bricks up/roots rotting and causing mini-sinkholes. Also keep in mind whats deeper down, different areas may have different things underneath the brick and sand that could be damaged by deep piercing roots, or lead to contamination with heavy metals or other things that you might not want in your crops. Pick the roght plants and in the right areas im sure it works great, but like most things, if you use it in a way it wasnt designed for for a long time, it probably will have some downsides at some point, somewhere...

@epicgardening

7 ай бұрын

Fantastic tips

@VeretenoVids

7 ай бұрын

Definitely! I think creeping thyme would be a reasonable option if someone really wanted to do this..

@glyakk

6 ай бұрын

Man! I got so hyped on this idea and now you brought me down to reality lol. You are right though. Maybe I can find something that would work.

@paulm.8660

6 ай бұрын

​@@glyakk Stuff like lettuce, radishes, bush beans, and so on are probably safe, especially smaller varieties. Anything with "baby" or "dwarf" in the cultivar name is probably a good bet

@Lightweight1873

2 ай бұрын

I've tried it for several plants in Utah Zone 6b and the only things that did well were chamomile in the very early spring or thyme and chives in the summer. And those not well. The bricks heat up so much when the strong sun hits them everything just bakes to death like you put it in an oven. Might work for you in milder wetter California but I'd still suggest part sun

The "photo" of the banana-dragonfruit tree definitely looks AI generated to me, between the out-of-whack scaling and the weird smoothness.

@shamrockgirl804

6 ай бұрын

100%! Especially the smoothness. I find it sad that people think it’s real OR ask for seeds or cuttings! 😳

You maybe have to be careful with the wine bottle trick. I think I saw someone fried their tomatoes with the lensing caused by the glass bottle

@epicgardening

7 ай бұрын

Whoa!

@jordanxfile

7 ай бұрын

Very very careful; a lot of forest fires are caused by glass bottles. Especially in dry regions.

@angelabromley3712

6 ай бұрын

I would not have thought about that, thanks.

@PeasLovePineapples

6 ай бұрын

I've used it for years and years never had one problem. but if you are worried maybe dont used the clear bottles. Use the opaque or dark colored ones.

@Lightweight1873

2 ай бұрын

Tried that too, doesn't work outside. As soon as the sun hits it the steam pushes all the water out so it's really a waste of time for such little water.

In regards to the Corpse Flower, you should look into what the botanical gardens in South Australia have been able to accomplish. They now have over 100 of these plants in their greenhouses that they have been able to propagate with stem cuttings. Very cool to see that such a complex flower has been propagated in such a basic way.

I use the wine trick to explain why I need to buy so much... 🍷

@epicgardening

7 ай бұрын

LOL

@PeterSedesse

7 ай бұрын

Seriously.... if this is a business... that is a legit business expense for your taxes.

@rainaj6859

7 ай бұрын

The only problem is when drunk plant seeds or cuttings and have no clue what they are until they are actively growing!

I love the editing in these videos. The question marks next to Jacques in response to the toothpaste on the tomato "hack"--these little touches make it SO funny to me!

@epicgardening

7 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy :)

@FloraM44

7 ай бұрын

And the sound effects like him touching the top of the tomato 😂😂

This Is my favorite reaction video 😂 I died when Kevin said he can get his Filipino community to do a better job than the robot 😂😂

@BasisStudent

Ай бұрын

We filipinos are a hard-working community, and if its for the greater good consider it done.

Yes, the corpse flower's scent is revolting. Also, describing the plant as morphologically interesting is an understatement.

My local worm farm uses that tromel system to separate the worms from the bedding material to sell the worms.

Kevin & Jacques, for the wine bottle, there is a oya-type clay product that is basically a 5 inch spike with a hole in center wide enough for the mouth of a wine bottle or similar sized so you can do the same thing as in the video, but ideally improved since it's got the clay component. I tried it out with mixed results. I think I need to re-explore how I deployed it, next year.

@epicgardening

7 ай бұрын

We'll check that out!

@shannonburns7701

7 ай бұрын

I use these for my potted plants and like them for when I go away for a few days, as Kevin said. But I think since their surface area is less than a traditional olla, the area of effect is definitely narrower and maybe not that helpful for a full garden bed.

@basanteena

7 ай бұрын

It's called a plant nanny. Works pretty well!

The immediate laugh and reaction to the ai generated banana tree😂 I can't believe anyone actually thinks that is real.

@ldkmelon

7 ай бұрын

because some people are a blank slate for gardening or plants and have literally no idea, especially kids. its actually sad many of these prey on kids too young to know better or absolute beginners who blame themselves when it doesn't work. I see the same thing with cooking videos, no one can make creme brulee in 5 minutes in a microwave, but the video is edited so realistic if you don't know better😅

@mrwolf751

7 ай бұрын

What? It's totally real. I have 37 trees just like it growing in my backyard! Wait.. Never mind. Those are strawberry plants.

@trishanavarro4887

7 ай бұрын

The size of those dragon fruit is massive, and they don't need some crazy trellis😂😂😂😂

@louvegouroute

7 ай бұрын

yup. this is why i'm so tired of having to explain people who knowingly share AI generated images that *they should mention that this is what they are*. it's such an obvious style when you know what they are, people need to learn to recognize them before it's too late (and it almost is)

@mikemorton954

7 ай бұрын

So you're telling that if I bury a chocolate biscuit, tea bag and milk I won't end up with a chocolate biscuit and cup of tea tree 😢😂

I had tomatoes grown from seeds and grew tall and they only flowered now. 15 days is not enough to do the trick let alone with that height. I did the sucker technique you showcase in one of your videos and I'm happy that it at least worked (on one) without having to root them first by directly sowing them into my grow bag with just 2in of soil. Thinking how tomatoes love to be sunk in the soil as it grows. So I'm waiting for my sucker to grow taller so I can add to the level of soil in my grow bag.

Little point about the brick planting, I had a buddy that loved gardening, and at his apartment in San Diego he grew watermelons in cracks in the sidewalk. They never got really big, but they grew well and were surprisingly tasty.

@epicgardening

7 ай бұрын

Awesome!

Kevin and Jacques, your banter real elevates these videos!

My favourite watering trick for when I'm away for a length of time (I've successfully done it for 4+ weeks away!) is using felt and cutting them into thin strips and dipping one end under the soil of the pot and the other in a big tub of water. It's best to test it out a week or so in advance because if the strip is too wide, too much water will go into the pot at a time and you'll end up waterlogging your plant and when the water runs out, it'll dry up lol. But all you need to do is cut a little notch into the side of the strip, because no matter how wide the ends are, the flow of water can only be as fast as the thinnest part of the strip! I'm not sure if I came up with it on my own (I've been doing it for several years, longer than I've been following gardening KZread videos) but I try to share it with as many people as possible!

I love that brick planting method! I'm planning on putting paving stones in about 1/3 of my small back yard and I'm definitely going to pop a few up and plant some little radishes or microgreens in there.

Great video. I really like the hacks that have hundreds of comments on how well they work when it is obvious that it is pure fantasy. Getting back to the tomato, anyone who isn’t the neatest gardener (that includes me) may find the dried up tomato skin in the garden and you go to pick it up only to find every seed inside beginning to sprout. Thanks for sharing and happy Thanksgiving and enjoy Black Friday!

I've planted rice that way. It's so fun! I lived with a Black Hmong family in the indochina mountains of Vietnam for a year. We harvested it very differently though. Surprisingly the traditional taking method was as fast as using a machine.

Kevin I would love to see a creation of the word EPIC within the bricks of garden using growth of the leaf vegetable in either one of your gardens. I think it would be EPIC! 💐

The wine bottle hack has been watering my plants when i go on vacation my whole life. Id recomend using a two liter with a few needle holes in the cap. For fruit trees i half bury a clay pot a foot away from the trunk with a cork in the bottom. The slow release can go for over a week and keep your soil moist, but for thirstier plants youll want to use more than 1

With the bricks, I had self-sown volunteer Mexican Corriander growing in mine. I was never able to transplant any, apparently my MC had chosen the place it wanted to be and that was that

I just found your channel (and Jacque's) less than a month ago and im hooked! I love your reactions to tiktok hacks. You guys are a hoot!

The apple suction cup machine = maintenance nightmare.

I just love your reactions at the crazy stuff on the internet!!

You have to laugh at some of those hacks. One that really does work is cut the greens off your scallions leaving an inch of the white root part. Put them in water or soil and within days you'll have a second harvest. I've never gotten a 3rd harvest though. I have gotten celery to grow from the bottom portion, but that took awhile. Even though I've moved from SoCal, I still enjoy your videos. Happy Thanksgiving!

Y’all are so much fun! Keep being Epic!

That grape tomato plant though... 👌 😂😂😂

Great video, I love the laughter! Thank you.

I mean the banana dragon fruit one would work if you started the banana tree first then grow the dragon fruit next, taking a three sisters growing method approach . I'm thinking of doing something like that with my decorative Arizona cactus and using it to hold up my dragon fruit onto instead of a trellis. However I want to find a variety of straight growing cactus that also grows fruit or is edible to hold the dragon fruit up.

@michaellake2184

3 ай бұрын

the banana plant is not a type of tree. most bananas are coated with a hormone so that their seeds end up polyploidal [usually triploidal], so they are larger and almost always sterile-and some do not even produce seeds anymore. Many food type bananas are cloned either in a lab using a particular part of the corm, or when they shoot up a pup from the corm. I am not aware of cloning by essentially using the fruit as a cutting. My 8ft musa blue java is about 2 years old, and it still hasn't flowered nor produced a pup yet. But it's not supposed to grow in zone 5 either, so it might not like the corrective measures to keep it alive indoors.

@daniellapain1576

3 ай бұрын

@@michaellake2184 sorry bad habit of calling it a tree

Some of my favorite memories growing up was the fall gleaning season. We relied on those food harvest big time. My dad would take us kids, 5 in all, around to local farms and orchards and we picked all day after the initial harvest was done. It was all by hand and we got to keep half of what we harvested. We had food for the winter and they didn't have to pay a dime out and it was a win win for all of us. And when you live in town you can't grow enough to help feed 5 growing kids in your tiny yard.

Oh Jawues. 1) dont chase and terrify the chicken and 2) you need to hold the chicken beak down on the ground so the 'line' is right in front of it like an extension of the beak

I think my favorite movie is Little Forest (the Japanese version from 2014). It's about a girl who grew up on the countryside, moved to the city, then comes back to live a self-sustainting life on the mountain where she was born and raised. It follows her thtough 4 seasons (split into two movies) and shows her struggle, work, sow, harvest, cook things she has grown herself and it's easily the most calming movie you'll ever see. The rice paddy segment made me think of it, and with how much you guys seem to admire learning techniques, plants, food... I'm sure you will love it. Will you please give it a chance? Thank you for your videos. They're so soothing.

The window method is how my local botanical garden pollinates their two corpse flowers. The beetles and flies the stench attracts is supposed to pollinate it but the window is a fail safe.

I really like the brick method. I've already been planning something similar using paver blocks. ❤

Putting a tomato seed between two grapes sounds like a fast way to get a rotten tomato seed. Have to agree that they make some of these things look real. Also wish my tomatoes would grow to that size in 15 days!

@epicgardening

7 ай бұрын

No kidding!

Can yall try the brick garden in the test garden!? The thought of no weeds and low watering sounds like heaven for an aspiring gardener with ADHD & consistency issues.

That brick garden is amazing!!! I am seriously going to try that next season.

Sone of these are a hoot! Still patiently waiting for you epic Quinoa grow!

Haha some of these are so funny. especially that last one with the giant dragon fruit :D :D Love your content and really looking forward to sunday and monday's sales for this thanksgiving weekend! I'll be buying some stuff

probably one of the best segways into a plug, even if im not able to take advantage of it, i still got a laugh out of it. You guys are the best

I love your reactions to your viewers garden fails. When can we expect one of those again?

@epicgardening

7 ай бұрын

Soon!

14:20 Before you grow rice, you may want to think about the irrigation and the dehulling process. Rice dies easily without proper irrigation I heard. You may also want to plan how you want to dehull the harvest because it is quite a lot of work without the proper tools..

I ❤the brick idea, so smart!

Sooooo funny! Those dragonfruit at the end would be as big as a small beach ball in real life! Oh my goodness, haha 😂

The corpse flower at the Cincinnati Zoo bloomed last year. I didn't get a chance to see it but I heard the line took hours. I had no idea it was such a big deal when the news was talking about it.

For all the flack that this is rightfully getting, I DO now wonder about using a fruit tree or similar as a living center post for a dragonfruit frame. The root spacong would be tricky at best, but its a thought...

Regarding drawing a line in the ground to hypnotize the chicken. Yes, I have done it. But you have to lay the chicken on its side and place the head to the ground, then use a stick and score the ground out a foot or so from its beak or head.

Shoutout to the vid editor again 🎉🎉 love your work!!

Regarding the corpse flower, it was called the titan arum during a BBC documentary because Mr. Attenborough felt that its Latin name (Amorphophallus titanum) was too provocative. If you know scientific Latin, then that name should have quite the giggle factor. Another fun fact is that A. titanum can produce heat to send its carrion odor further to attract more carrion flies.

Interesting video. Good on y'all for calling out these BS hacks. BTW I agree with your pinned commenters sentiments. I bought your seed starting trays and bottom trays. They are absolutely fantastic and potentially indestructible. I believe they will last forever. Sucks for you on resell. But will definitely make any gardener quite happy with their purchase. I've also bought birdies beds from you and they have helped me with the grub hunting skunks and racoons that used to dig up my garden. Of course, I bought the tall ones. Love the channel and Jacques is a great addition.

The chicken hypnotism does work, you have to hold the chickens head down level with the ground, and start the line right next to their eye. It only keeps them still for 10 to 25 seconds usually, it works better on some chickens than others

Great video as always. Perfect timing I opened KZread 1 minute after you posted this!

Yes, I'm from Thailand, that's is how we grow rice, actually after we pull them out bunch them up,then we cut the top part off then we stick a few of them in ground. Full of water. Rice needs water to grow.

That video of drones picking fruit reminded me of the science fiction movie Sleep Dealer, which is a Mexican SF dystopia about workers who pilot drones across the US-Mexico border. Highly recommended! Thanks for all the videos!

This makes me miss using youtube!!!! Love you guys SO MUCH

That banana dragonfruit video looks like they sprouted a mango seed and shoved it into the dragonfruit 😅

Planting and harvesting rice is a lot of hard work. I was fortunate to experience it in the Philippines!

The grape tomato cracked me up!!!!

Thanks for doing this Kevin👍

I just saw the worm separator at Arizona Worm Farm. They use it to separate out their Red Wiggler Worms.

shout out to the giant dragon fruit and banana tree hack for teaching us how to crossbreed fruit and time travel lmaoo

Thank you for showing that tomato video. I saw the same thing with an apple and aloe for rooting hormone. 20 days later a perfectly red apple with a tree trunk sticking out of the top and tree roots a foot long coming out of the bottom. I was so mad when i saw that, the only thing that would make me madder is if it was real lol

The "grape tomato" was so ridiculous, I can't- 🤦🏾‍♀

You don’t have to draw the line for the chicken. You can literally just put your finger in front of them. You can lay them on their back and tip their beak back. You can leave them on the front and tip their beak out in front of them, and make them sit there for a few moments. But you do have to hold their head down

I’d worry that the planting in a patio, especially in zones where there frost heaves and so code is to hard pack stone dust to a depth of 18” or whatever, would provide poor drainage

I have hypnotized my chickens. Some need a line straight out, some need a line across. Some you cant

Kevin & Jacques : I watched your tomato growing experiment and was surprised! Because the holly grail of fertilizer ! You’re right though! Whole fish burying is what has always been done , especially for trees, especially fruit or citrus trees! For veggies such as tomatoes it probably would have worked stupendously had you Bass-O-Matic the fish heads purée ing them so that the benefit of fertilizing would take place sooner ! Re-due 😂 LOL… The Garden hacks was interesting! Tomato grape ? 🤣😂😅😜 Superglue! Total 💩!

for young ginger, its coveted for its bright red color when its young! good quality sushi ginger is naturally that shade of coral, as it ages it turns to its pale yellow tone you associate with bigger roots

Would love a video about the journey w botanical interests.

@epicgardening

7 ай бұрын

What kind of stuff would you like to see covered in that video!

@lyndelgado6138

7 ай бұрын

Maybe how one variety of vegetable seed is selected over another one? Do they do taste tests as well as resistance to disease tests or ?

@teriparrish

7 ай бұрын

@epicgardening. Maybe the journey of how it came to be that you were purchasing it, a tour of the facility and process, and anything you’re looking at changing, updating, keeping the same. Very excited for you!

I've personally used empty wine bottles turned upside in all my pots when I went on extended vacations for years and years and has always worked perfectly. I love getting double uses out of items and saving money. So I stand by this hack.

The tomato plant with the grapes lol the plants in the bricks is cool

I remember falling for a lot of these garden hacks when I was just just starting out gardening when the pandemic started. I'm glad to hear that it's not bad that we fell for some of these since you you might've when you started gardening. So long I would beat myself up for things that kinda grew or didn't grow despite these hacks. Now, i know better and do more research onto plants I'm thinking of getting. Also now knowing more, it's interesting tontry and figure out how people edited or glue plants together to make these hacks convincing. Also thanks for calling out people who think farmers are lazy or don't do "real skillful" work. It's always annoying to hear people say those things. They're real jobs that require skills. And for the drone farming, the coder in me is super impressed because of all the coding that must've gone in to make this work. But also me, it'll be way much easier and faster for people just to do it instead of this expesnive science fair project 😆

@epicgardening

7 ай бұрын

Fantastic comment!

one very old growing method, high mounds shaped as a palm tree around it trench with water filled. it meant to help with colder temps, seen documentary and small clip was this growing method during the last mini ice age, how well it worked who knows, guess it need to be near a water way to as prob need a flow water or guess it freeze over. it didn't go in o much detail it just said a way the could extend growing season or protect it from cold

This was a good giggle!

the chicken thing is called '' tonic immobility'' it seems as if there is a hack for many animals to immobilise them

9:24 the line’s DEFINITELY work!! Need tonhold their head still first!

You guys should try that clay preservation technique

Would love to see you guys do a video on making an African keyhole garden

Funny. my father did that brick hole planting at his home with collard, it grew nicely

Your reactions to the dragonana had me cracking up. Thank you.

10:38 We have been summoned.. Where you at 🇵🇭? Hahaha 😅😅😅

ginger stem where its yellow to pinkish tinged part has a mild ginger taste and is not fibrous. Very yummy, don't throw away the stem when harvesting the ginger and enjoy the stem. Japanese market will sell 5 or so stems for several dollars. So the ginger video may be real, although I would just rather grow the ginger normally and have occasional ginger stem. Fun video to watch. Just amazing at the imagination of the hacks.

Hello guys. Do u have any tips for farming cactie? Especially about Echinocactus grusonii?

LMAO Jacques and the chicken!

My dad did the brick thing with tomato plants in our backyard and it works really well

9:45 The line works on all poultry, but you have to make sure they are focusing on the line. My dad used to put them on their back draw the line and then chop... for dinner.

@joshuahoyer1279

6 ай бұрын

Could possibly have more to do with the effect of gravity? Our friends use one of those cones for more humane butchering. The chicken is kept upside-down with its head in the cone, and it basically passes out prior to having its head cut off.

@pagevpetty

6 ай бұрын

hmm... I still think my dad's way is more humane. Once they are in the transe you don't have to hold them or anything and it's over before they know it. I've never heard of the cone thing and hanging them upside down, but I don't know very much about killing chickens. We used to do the line trick on our pet duck just for fun and then wake him up again.

@joshuahoyer1279

6 ай бұрын

Wow, that's amazing to think about! Side note, before learning about the cone trick, the same people experienced a horrific event when the brother in law had the bright idea initially to tie the chickens together on a line. After the first cut, the remaining chickens were dragged all over the place clucking their heads off.

@pagevpetty

6 ай бұрын

Yikes! @@joshuahoyer1279

That last one was insane!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

the chicken hypnosis work . not only in chickens but other birds to . I put a dove belly up and draw the line they get in a catatonic state then snap out of it like nothing happened

Gardening comedy due. The epic laugh brothers. Thanks fellas lol

Ga. That fake garden hack. I hate how good it looks. I hate these vids because they make people quit, angry and confused at why they’re not replicating the results for doing nothing wrong.

@epicgardening

7 ай бұрын

They're getting way better at faking!

For everyone who is interested: Do NOT do it to your chickens. What you're seeing is the "freeze" part of flight, fight, freeze. Basically you're making the chicken instinctively play dead hoping you'd stop paying attention and walk off for long enough that it can jump up and run away before you rip it apart. The "line" has nothing to do it, just waving in front of its face or holding it down for long enough would have the same effect.

For the apple picker, probably an early automated picker able to detect perfect ripeness, address lack of workforce and reduce crop handling and bruising. Maybe not the best cost system but one of multitudes being developed. Imagine having an heirloom apple picked at the peak of ripeness not because it is a less tasty variety that ripens all at once for labor cost efficiency.

Seed starting hack for real, Take a fully ripe store bought tomato slice it up for a snack, a zip-lock bag, and a appropriately sized paper towel for your ziplock, moisten the towel, lay out seeds extracted from your store bought tom evenly on half the towel sandwich them and place them inside the ziplock, hang the ziplock up in a sunny winter window with some tape. Watch carefully for root development and leaf emergence and when the time is right, give those seeds some room. Bonus points if you want to use a little bit of aloe vera per seed. Works wonders for propagating year after year.

That chicken went on a rant about the state of mental healthcare for humans and I agree with the chicken. That was guano crazy, bro! 😂

I look forward to these videos ❤

The plant roots are definitely going to mess up those bricks especially if you do season after season of planting in there