I like to think you didn’t hire Jacques, he just keeps showing up when he senses epic gardening lol

This feels like a gardening mukbang 😂

You guys are flipping through the seed packs like kids with baseball cards. It’s great!

Kevin and Jacques give off an older brother, younger brother dynamic 😊 Kevin: what are you doing here? I didn't invite you Jacques: I'm here to sow seeds with you 🌱

Your bromance always brings a smile to my face. You too are hilarious 😆.

I love the playful banter between you n the garden hermit. He's like your sidekick now!

This is the most wholesome convo bet two men 💚 I'm a mom of 4 and I watch this while folding clothes @ 2 in the morning. Feels like hanging out with friends ❤️

Don’t hurt on kohlrabi! It’s a great healthy substitute for potatoes (lower glycemic index, more fiber and nutrients). We eat the rounded stem portion and leaves roasted, in stir fry, raw in salads, and our favorite- fritters. It is much easier to grow than broccoli (slower to bolt) and is rarely woody. We grow spring and fall crops of Terek and Kossak (giant) varieties in Zone 8a. When the apocalypse comes, it’s our subsistence crop!

An elderly family friend once told my husband (when he was a kid) to loosely roll up newspaper and lay it in the garden where earwigs were a problem, leave it overnight, and throw it out in the early morning. The earwigs crawl in to shelter from the sun, so they get tossed out with the paper. It seemed to work last year, just bring a garbage bag with you to the paper, so they don't jump out. I loved listening to you two, but now I have to go start some winter seedlings. Thanks for the inspiration!

Loved the "👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 cut this" part lol. Felt awkward 👀 like I was watching yall illegally 🤣 as illegal as your seed/plant imports lol

You left in a part you meant to cut 😂 it was like seeing bloopers or extras

I’m not gonna lie… I did dishes and folded laundry while I watched this because I’m in zone 7b, and well it’s a bit too late to sow seeds (tho I just direct sowed some greens…). Either way, it was such a joy to hang out with you!

I love how you started laughing at Jacques’ entry while looking down at your seeds. You couldn’t even hold it together! Sincere comedy!

“I only want things that I can eat” this is what I said too! Starting to appreciate growing flowers with different colors too.

With my rapini I just threw the seeds willy nilly in the bed. I think they all sprouted because there's a lot. I'm thinking about throwing a second sewing.

Endive and escarole are the same species, just different cultivars. They get more bitter in summer, and less in cold weather, but I love the bitterness. If you slice escarole finely and season with plenty of salt, lime and olive oil it is amazingly bitter in a good way. Even though I don’t eat cheese anymore, it is amazing under the cheese in pizza, precisely because the bitterness interacts with the salty fatty cheese.

I love everything about the show Kevin .. muscle hermit and the fact that I heard the police sirens in the background is just epic....

Hey guys not to be mean to anybody or anything but you both are a treasure you guys are magic the way it works between you and jock keep it up all the harvests in the world to you

Love how supportive you are of jacque, I guess you just like watching things grow!

Omg I loooooove kohlrabi! But I will say it has been the hardest thing to grow for me. But when it comes in, man! Kohlrabi, Butternut, Potatoes, and Kale fresh outta the oven is chef's kiss *muah*

Love the banter, would watch these all day

Love this format! It's like chilling in the backyard talking with friends while you get little jobs done. Epic! 👍

Love hearing about what your planting. As a fellow Californian it’s good to know what works best in our climate. This video is the motivation that I needed to go through my seed packs and pick out some brassicas and lettuce to start some seeds in my epic 6-cells.

Best video ever super chill, and I can come back to it every year, and ofcouse see How Jaque got started

Gotta say, If you built a little garden cottage and rented it out on Airbnb I would be ALL over it! Spend a day or two in the Epic Garden at the Epic Homestead?! Count me in!

You guys are so funny. Great job entertaining us Garden Hermit! “This tastes like garbage! And smells like it too!”😂😆🤣 Kevin I felt the that way about ALL brassicas growing up. And my mom would start cooking at 9am so every Saturday morning I smelled sulfur gas throughout the whole house. 🥴

I love that you guys are such good friends and the banter is so fun. Thanks for the good info!

I'm so envious of the climate of southern California. You can practically grow year round. I actually like seeing Jacques as your helper. You guys have great chemistry!

I had to watch this twice. Not only lots of great info but I laughed so much I’m sure I missed some good info! Love u guys!!

Y'all are great together. This was a totally fun video. I found myself smiling and chuckling throughout.

You make it look so easy and so fun. When I do it, I overthink which seeds to start (limited space) and it takes me forever. This video is so soothing to watch, just like friends hanging out. Wished there was a dynamic duo in the Bay Area to follow along (climate-wise). Love you guys.

Long videos are good! We learn so much from the both of you. Thank you.

Yup! Bulb planting time now here in the Netherlands. I always add some new ones and never dig up old ones. The older ones will either come up again a 2nd year or be 'absorbed' in the soil and just disappear. Always fun to see what comes up in the spring! And escarole/andive: perfect in a potato mash with bacon! I still have some in my garden right now, does perfectly in Dutch fall weather (zone 8b).

Gladiolas and Daffodils you can leave in the ground. they will come back every year in So. Cal. also Naked Ladies, Many Dahlias will come back too. My DAD always called them a lazy Gardeners flower.

This was so fun! Sit down, chill, but still educational with some banter and a bit longer. Would love more of these!

So much fall info for me to glean for my zone. Long vid to boot. Thanks for all you do Kevin, as usual.

Extremely soothing to sit here just listening to you guys talk about gardening.

I really enjoy the chill banter and jokes. Listening to this makes me feel like I am back home among people I grew up with

I’m still catching on the fun-o-Rama at both the homestead and garden. Y’all bring so much useful info in an accessible fashion. Thanks!

I love this one, I love the chatter between you and Jaques. Very fun to watch along and drink my tea and plant some seeds. Thanks 🙏

Love you two together, totally my jam! I can't grow anything over here in 4b Montana so I'm living vicariously through you guys.... thank you!

Watching this morning with my tea and seed ordering stuff. I’ve got my seed packets for fall lined up, ready to take outside in just a sec. Fun!

That was the most delightful, entertaining, informative, and inspiring gardening videos I have ever seen. You two are truly the Epic Dynamic Duo! This might have been your longest video, but it wasn't long enough! I hope you two do this again.

I very much enjoyed this video. I felt like we were visiting and having a great conversation. This played while I was purging files, so making that task seen to go by quickly.

I love you and Jacques so much, you're literally so funny together. Watching your videos makes me so happy, and I'm so excited to get my garden going

I love kohl robi!. The bulb tastes like radish and i eat the green leaves with salad. Send them my way with another birdies' bed. lol

Good afternoon. I'm in Colorado and 28 deg is predicted for Thu evening. Hope to get my garlic in next week. Been bringing herbs in to grow in the house. Have a Wonderful Day.

I really love this video! So fun and yes i think i must be a hermit gardener! lol Jacques needs one of those tiny houses you see on yt in the corner of the garden. I like to boil my sprouts in apple juice. I found a sprouting potato peel in my composter in mid June and planted it in my "science! pot. It also had leeks that i was trying to regrow from a supermarket end root. I replanted the potatoes when the plant was about 2ft and i just unearthed 3 potatoes, about 1lb 3oz/ 548g. Largest was about 4.5 inches 11.5 cm. Need to wait until Sunday to harvest the rest and see what we got from the peel. Funny thing was, the actual peel fell off the sprout (chit?) when i planted it, so didn't expect anything of it. Was a bog standard cheap white potato from the supermarket. I think after the horrible weather we have had in the UK this, this was a wonderful success (i was like a squealing school girl sending pictures to my dad! lol ) and i want to try sweet potatoes next. Having not grown potatoes before, it was interesting how much more earthy flavour came through. I made roast potatoes with the roast chicken and it was lovely. I don't know what home grown leeks taste like but the regrown ones taste more like spring onions (scallions?). My step father-in-law, spent years making a hybrid tomato. Sadly, he passed away in 2018 but my mother-in-law still kept growing them. 2019 - we got a plant from her, which was great as the varieties we got didn't do well and it was wonderful. 2020 - all seeds were sold out by the time we went to buy them. Lockdown happened but again was luckily enough to get another hybrid pot from the MIL in Feb before the total lockdown. 2021 - We prepped with Money makers and Beef steaks. About 16 seedlings made it to planting. we held off after a sudden late frost and thought we were in the clear. To our surprise, we also had a volunteer hybrid from last year, which grew faster and stronger than the other two varieties. Sadly, the storms damaged all the bedding ones, including the hybrid. We were fortunate enough to get tomatoes now from our containers but too late to benefit from a big planned harvest. Got two half pound/ 246g beefsteak tomatoes and lots of money makers all sizes. I've since brought in some smaller tomatoes and a courgette plant pots into a small conservatory hallway, out of the dropping temperatures and heavy rain. Now just extending and digging deeper into the bedding to try and get more drainage. Going to try autumn/ fall garlic. Our wormery crate system from your video, is now in the workshop. From i think Feb till now, the 20 red worms we collected from the garden is now about 200. I often put a handful in our main outside darlek composter. The last change over/ clean wormery, i put in two handfuls of worms. This will help with the clay soil, greens and browns we mixed in, to go back into the new bedding spaces. At the end of the day, it's all an experiment to see what grows well in our garden.

that was a cool seed starting video glad you were able to start your seeds look forward to your fall winter harvest of everything you planted

Great video, awesome guys. Love seeing the two of you together 😃

I’m so happy you’re adding more flowers to your garden!! I felt the same way as the Garden Hermit at the beginning, but now I’m even more into flowers than veggies 🌸 Ps did the editor intentionally not cut the part where you clapped? That was hilarious 😂

I enjoyed this video so much!! 💚 So glad it was a long video you guys are so much fun 😁 hands down my favorite gardeners ever!!

I wish I had a friend I could garden and have wholesome (and sassy) seed starting convos with. You two make me smile 😊

Jacques, try to make a simple soup with your escarole. I chop it, simmer in chicken broth with lots of garlic, 2 cans white cannelloni beans and the heel of parmigiana. Let it simmer about 30 minutes. Delicious!

Thanks I need this vlog. Something ate every single kale and broccoli I planted this fall. Wasn’t going to replant but after watching this going to replant tomorrow in my epic 6 cells again.

I don't know how I feel about watching this.... had a little frost this morning so y'all just seed teasin me right now.

This was so amusing and I'm here for it.

I loved this episode, Jacques' participation is always very funny yet informative. You should invite him more often :) Good luck with your seedlings in fall and keep us updated :)

Love Fall seeding with the boys!! Thank you for sharing! 👍

You two are too funny- what a nice way to spend the evening ☺️

I'm glad Jacque got the Rossi de Salomi garlic. I ordered mine from Garlic gods and planted them last week. This is my second time growing garlic and I wasn't too successful last time.

I really enjoyed this! Thanks. Reminds me of growing up, my dad had tackle boxes of seeds and each of us kids would layout our littles gardens…

I’m about to start my fall garden and I’m so excited about it! I plan to document my journey on my channel ♥️

Love this! Thanks for getting together for this!!

I was watching and commenting throughout but you guys are just complete magic especially when chalk The Rock hermit sprinkled whatever he had in his hands by tapping his hands Kevin you know what you doing good luck man

Thanks for keeping it entertaining!

Some of my favorite videos are of you and Jacques just talking while doing garden stuff.

This was a great video! You two play off each other so well. Besides all the planting tips, you kept me laughing. Take care

What a hoot! I love seeing you guys together. Totally Epic!

Epic gardener, I want to thank you so much for your support !! I start my first garden at 65 years old and love it. I started with sweet peppers, tomatoes and summer squash and it squash wS delicious! The peppers grow wonderful too. I have tomatoes too just Waiting until they ripe!!!

A 95-year-old Italian woman taught me my favorite way to make escarole. Bring to a simmer in chicken stock, add salt and crushed red pepper to taste and eat it as a soup. Delicious. Love hanging out with you guys 🙂

Loved it, convo style, loads of great info and ideas for new seeds too

These are some of my favorite videos Kevin love them

This is a fun and diverse garden adventure show. Super-hero gardening duo you are indeed.

This was such a fun episode to watch. Subscribed 😀

That was fun, like a hang! Wish I was in a climate to be starting seeds with you guys, but it's going to be 25 tonight, and all my tomatoes and basil just succumbed to the cold yesterday. I do have some lettuces and brassicas growing out there I started awhile back, abd I planted my garlic Saturday! Didn't see a link to Jacques' chanel, but found it! 😊

I’m watching this a year too late but I just did my set of seed beds in my apartment, best feeling ever. ❤❤

I love to hear you two talk about plants and seedlings and stuff. I fell like we're chums. Howdy from Texas!

What a fun and entertaining video. Since I am new to gardening and live in San Diego I liked hearing about what worked and what didn't. You guys should do more videos together

Excellent video. I love it. Perfect team. Looking forward to more. Thanks.

So I’m in CA also, and was obsessed with water cress at one point… if you happen to have an air conditioning drainage pipe on the north side of your house, you can grow water cress in a pot right under the constant drip… if you wanted to… it is possible. Lol 😝 I did it!!

That was fun you guys are great together I know this is an old sesh but I’m just seeing it for the first time 😁

This is my favorite Epic video.

Loved this video!! You guys are so knowledgeable and funny! I'm in zone 5b in Ontario Canada so I will enjoy watching both your fall and winter gardens grow while mine is under snow!

It is so funny and entertaining to watch Kevin and Jacques!

Your guys friendship and both your demeaners remind me of my best friend and me. He passed away almost 10 years ago and life has been pretty empty since. I'm a hermit and don't think I'll ever find another friend. Anyways, I already loved your show but once I heard your smuggling stories I love it even more now lol. You guys are great. Thank you for sharing so much info.

This was so fun. It was so nice to plant some seeds while listening to this and peeking at the photos! Great idea 😆

This is literally my favorite channel

love the conversation about trying different things!

I have to say I do enjoy your banter and your collaboration.

LOVE THIS VIDEO. chill AF

Loved you talking about watercress as a new discovery and how you'd *never* be able to grow it because you'd *never* have a river running through your backyard... And look at you now! A pond full of it and soup on rotation.

I love seeing the pictures!

Thanks both of you learned some new things.

Very educational. I enjoyed the two of you share what you will be planting. I have a list of vegis I neef to try know. Thank you both!

Great video. Not long, loved it.

Great video and thank you for sharing 🤗🤗😍😍

lol today was the first snow and freeze of the season where I live zone 7a I am disabled so working on setting up a small indoor garden in my dining/living room, been loving your channel and love all the great ideas I am getting from you!

OMG THE CROW IN THE BACKGROUND CLASSIC

This was fun and interesting. I just had to place an order for the Rapini and the calendula. You guys are like watching neighbors hang out and rapartee.