I would ❤️ for you all to look at other channels and add your input on what is good advice vs bad. I know the conditions are different everywhere but it would be awesome if we could get facts vs fiction. Of course covid and all the new gardeners have brought too many channels with odd advice. Not bashing anyone but it's getting overwhelming vs a few years back
Could you take a look at the Irish Spring repellent hack? I personally found it was no different than other smelly repellents and none work for very long. I have yet to find anyone else who has used it and found it effective. I think the "Irish Spring Repellent" is anoher well worn urban myth myself!
I would like to see gadgets and/or techniques and items used to collect seeds. I usually am mostly a flower person since I'm surrounded by wildlife but for future reference I would like to see ways to collect and save seeds. 98% of my flower garden this year is from seeds I collected last year. Also, maybe composting products/gadgets. I currently do not compost but in the future would like to and on a relatively small scale, like for a single person living in suburbs 1/4 acre.
Can you provide a review of Android bar scanners, which are on sale today? - in terms of how these devices can assist with keeping track and documenting things, from a gardener's perspective? Thanks
5:38 I remember there was a reddit post from an owner of a small orange farmer in France looking for legal advice. They said that one day they found like 15% of their crop sliced, squashed & left to rot on ground. They were confused why would anyone do that? Later they found out some Tiktok videos of an American tourist picking, slicing & squashing oranges on their farm similar to that viral video. Apparently they kept slicing & squashing these oranges repeatedly until they get the “perfect shot”. Now they’re looking for a way to sue these tourists
That's awful. The addiction to going viral is one of the worst things to ever happen to people in recent years. Hope that unfortunate farmer recovers what he can from that case.
The Incas used those wide channels to grow potatoes at very high altitudes. The wide water channels not only watered the crops, but, took in heat from the sun and released it at night.
@@forestcreatureyt There was a lot of exceptionally advanced knowledge and engineering in a lot of ancient cultures - including quite a few things that we couldn't match today without modern electronics and heavy equipment.
@@greeneyedlady5580 we could easily do the same thing but machinery and electronics make it so so much easier. It's very cool to see ancient practises like these being used and we can definitely learn from them and it's cool to think how we coukd use these in our own gardens but they in no way compare to modern machinery in terms of scale.
"including quite a few things that we couldn't match today " I don't get it...is this true? why can't we do the same thing today? what makes them so special
I was having such flashbacks to my families tobacco farm. Like the potato belt planter, we had a very similar machine that did two rows at a time. It sat 4 people (2 on each row) you'd have a big bin full of tobacco plants maybe 6" tall. The machine opened up the soil, watered the trench and this conveyer belt with these rubber "hands" would drop the plants. The hands would open at the top for you to place the plant, close to hold it, then spring open at the bottom and drop them in the earth just as the machine was closing the trench back up. Also too the metal tube planter was also used. After a week or so you'd go back in these field with a very simliar mechanism, it was a little thicker and has a separate chamber for water. You'd thrust that point into the soil where ever a transplant had died. You had a sort of hip pack with transplants and throw one in, the water chamber would drop in a splash of water. Then you'd just sort of take your foot and kick the dirt back around the plant. Filling in the field, could take days. Another very unique thing on Tobacco seedlings is the seeding process. Tobacco seeds are one of the smallest seeds out there, almost like a powder and they don't compete well with weeds. At my Dad's hardware store he sold tobacco plant seeds, they were so expensive, a little 2 oz. container that looked a little like a tiny milk carton would be hundreds if not thousands of dollars. So once you prepare a tobacco bed, you cover it with plastic and release this really toxic gas that kills EVERYTHING. You let the bed soak a bit. The gas only last a short time though (maybe day or two). Then once you have your seeds ready to go, you go back out on a windless day and rip the plastic off, the guys with the seed mix (seeds, sand, fertilizer) almost at a run would spread it all out as fast as possible, then they quickly cover it all back up. All to minimize weed competition. Once the seeds are maybe a couple of inches, you take off the plastic, put in these bamboo arches and cover with canvas to keep out more weeds and filter the sun a bit. These beds are never really out in full use but normally by a wooded area to keep the sun off. I grew up in the heart of the Tobacco belt and it is crazy just the things that are done to raise and harvest and cure the leaf. But this was the backbone of so many family farms and agricultural economies in Virginia and the Carolinas .
Thats why I like gardening. There are so many different ways to do it in just your area. Some ways are more work than others, but then if you move from clay to sandy soil, your entire gardening world changes, but if you understand soil types and different methods, you can adapt yourself to your new land.
Exactly! There is no one right way. Even in one spot, a small scale gardener can try different methods or varieties as a hedge against weather conditions or fungus-of-the-year or other surprises.
Its refreshing to see a professional reacts video where the chosen videos are ones that can be verified as real. It's so much easier to find the mess and point at it. And while there is value in shining light on misleading info, it's just fun to watch something that seems too strange to be real and have it verified as real.
I love the shock on someone’s face when I tell them a loofa comes from a PLANT 😅 I’ve learned so much, I’ve wanted to start my own garden for months now
This was interesting and fun! I too love mangoes! Those early planting techniques from Central and South America are amazing. Have you read about the archeological finds that trace the hybridization of maíz? I grew some Hopi Azul corn (before the raccoons dug them up). It was really different. I hope one day to incorporate some of those ideas on a small scale. What you are doing on your Epic Homestead is so inspiring, Kevin!
I’m actually so interested in vertical gardening because we don’t have a lot of soil, but we eat a ton of vegetables. I hope to get to farm next time in my very own backyard!
I thought the best mango I'd ever had was straight off the tree in my grandmother's yard in Nigeria, but those Thailand mangos really take the cake. They're basically candy 🤤 paired with some sweet sticky rice? My God
I found you through Mark at “self sufficient me” a couple years ago. So happy to have someone in the states to reference as well! Just recently figured out you’re San Diego based and I used to live in Imperial Beach! In LA now but I’m gonna be getting a raised bed soon! Thank you for all of your help and the effort you put into your craft!
I had a similar mango in my back yard in Hawaii. It wasn't quite as big but it had a narrow flat seed and a lot of very sweet juicy flesh. I miss that tree! In fact, that's the one thing I miss about Hawaii. Not a big fan of papaya even though my father grew some monster watermelon papaya in the 50's.
@@makulewahine it's likely to be in your genetics if you like them or not! Same with cilantro. To some they taste delicious, to others they taste like dish soap
That orange,I kept sticking my tongue out hoping I could catch some🤣😂🤣😂,my mouth is watering now.. Loved this video,thanks From the England. Have a blessed day & takecare,xx
I really wanna taste that orange juice!!! And all these ancient/innovative farming techniques are necessary information. We need to preserve as many of these techniques as possible.
I'd like to see you react to some crazy gardens or food forests. Like Canadian Permaculture Legacy's food forest or edible acres chicken compost setup.
Omg that orange tho 😮 I can get apples to juice way more than they should here in oklahoma (honey crisp and gala trees) and in Southern California i got avocados the size of large grapefruit, but never in my life have I seen an orange do that!!! I need those in my life! Gorgeous
if i remember correctly the oranges are called Ehime Jelly Orange wich are like you said hybrid oranges of orange and tangerine. saw a tiktok of a person explaining these and why they look the way they do.
Oh I love these! ❤️ I have seen most of these done by the veggie boys or cut flower farmers. At least tic tock seems to show legitimate information vs blossom
There's also usually a good amount of manure, from various sources, in the dragonfruit trench style systems in Asia and other places using human and animal labour.
Loofah is a great plant to grown and the young loofah can be eaten in a curry, older loofah can be used for so many cleaning around the house. I live on a farm in tropical Australia and a lot of these fruits and plants are grown here. I have a few on my farm.
what i can't figure out about the mango video is why they appear to have piles of what look like fake mangos scattered around the ground and on top of the trees. does anyone know what that's about?
Cool video! However, gotta point out that the chinampas the Mexica (also known as Aztecs) used didn't work as you explained. The Mexica settled in an area known as Lake Texcoco, which was a more or less shallow lake in the valley where Mexico City is located now, and developed this technique to build land for agricultural purposes on the lake itself. They'd stake vertical wooden logs encasing an area that would be the chinampa, then, on the inside, they'd lay a woven reed wall to block anything they'd throw in from going out the pit. Afterwards, they'd slowly fill the area with organic waste and mud until it was solid enough to walk on it. They'd then plant willow trees on the waterside of the chinampas to help prevent erosion. They'd plant a variety of things on them, but this technique was also used to just create land to walk on or live on. They did not "pump" organic waste from the bottom of the canals on the chinampas to fertilize/irrigate once they were built, I've actually never heard of anything like that before.
On the second to last clip, it appears they laid the plastic out and then filled the divots with water to keep the plastic down and show where the depressions in the ground are. Then the guy is piercing the plastic only big enough for the crop to get planted through. After he pulls the tool out the water obviously makes its way into the soil around the crop immediately.
The juicy orange looks like a Mandarina. They are darker orange and flatter instead of round. They are very juicy (not that juicy LOL), and sometimes seedless.
Thank you for doing the tiktok about the powdery orange! I saw it and was like ewww what is the powdery mess on the orange can't be good for you lol good information on what that powers was! Thanks again!
I've worked on a planter like the potato, but it was for watermelons, and ive worked on something similar to the video after that, with the tube and planting. We just had a long stick that made a hole and someone passed by and planted whatever they were planting that season.
this video was amazing. so many jaw dropping moments. as a trained gardener I know how much I dont know yet. Can you do the same for temperate zones. I love fresh mangos and real sweet bananas but I am back home with less heat and would love some new stuff. I trust you.
Been scrolling on your channel and so far have never seen any banana tree videos, specifically dwarf Cavendish because i brought one and was looking for tips
0:30 yes we have one of the greens harvester and washing machine made for drying them after the wash on a farm I used to work at. Way more cost effective
Honestly I'd say that's a slightly large mango but not huge. Grew up in NT Australia and have worked on some mango farms for picking and even growing on another farm (as trials, spent alot of time there but they grew elite cashew trees, then sold the grafts and seeds to other farms). Most the big ones are sold either at farmers markets but majority is sold as export to the Asia region.
Fabulous video. You are absolutely right about how gardening is hard on backs. Anything that avoids back strain is a winner. Could you do a video about ways of gardening that are easy on the back? Raised beds of course, but what else?
A lot of farmers in Asia just tik tok as their way to advertise directly to consumers rather than sell to a middle man! That's probably why there's so many cropping up now.
That potato planter reminds me a bit of watching the Amish plant corn. Around my area I've seen them sit on low seats on either side of the person guiding the horses and placing seedlings into the ground
Whao thank you for educating us! I thought for the longest time the orange was fake! I love mango, but seriously I feel bad whenever they scoop it with the dirty spoon and you see dirt on the beautiful flesh 😹 it gets me every time...
I'm fascinated with that orange. Do you happen to know what variety that was in the clip? I don't have TikTok, but what came up when I searched online was Valencia, and that skin thickness and color doesn't favor a Valencia orange. It seems like a blood orange may be somewhere in the hybrid mix with the level of juice it produced, but it didn't look like a blood orange either.
Something's off with that video. It seems way too much volume of juice compared to the volume of the orange. The amount of juice that flowed out should show the orange be halfway to fully pressed. There's a video online of a couple who tried it with oranges that look pretty much the same and they got nowhere near the same amount. Wouldn't be suprised if the person in the original video faked it or even injected juice inside the orange before cutting it.
@epicgardening the Chinampas were actually constructed the opposite way of what you describe in the video. They would create these in lakes they are essentially artificial islands. Created by making a ring wall of sticks and wood and filling it with soil until an island was created. Then they would plant on these islands using canoes to transport goods back and forth.
I'm wondering if you can eat the rind of tne orange at the end like a kumquat? I've always wanted a hybrid giant citrus where the rind could be eaten like a kumquat!
That luffa pile - they are widely used as a dish sponge or a bath sponge in many Eastern Asian cultural areas. Some of them are more delicately processed, and the video as I believe is showing that one of such factory rehydrating the luffa in preparation for further processing.
I try to go to thailand as often as I can. My kickboxing trainer is retired and he lives out there in a village about a 2 hour drive from Bangkok. The first thing that I do in thailand is eat as much fruit as i can get my hands on. Even grapes in Thailand are Massive. When you are in a Rural area if you see a farm, all you need to do is walk up and ask if they have anything to sell which i can promise you that they will, they will likely hand you a basket, tell you to pick what you want, weigh it, you pay them and you're on your way.
Drop links ⬇️ for what we should react to next!
I would ❤️ for you all to look at other channels and add your input on what is good advice vs bad. I know the conditions are different everywhere but it would be awesome if we could get facts vs fiction. Of course covid and all the new gardeners have brought too many channels with odd advice. Not bashing anyone but it's getting overwhelming vs a few years back
Could you take a look at the Irish Spring repellent hack? I personally found it was no different than other smelly repellents and none work for very long. I have yet to find anyone else who has used it and found it effective. I think the "Irish Spring Repellent" is anoher well worn urban myth myself!
I would like to see gadgets and/or techniques and items used to collect seeds. I usually am mostly a flower person since I'm surrounded by wildlife but for future reference I would like to see ways to collect and save seeds. 98% of my flower garden this year is from seeds I collected last year. Also, maybe composting products/gadgets. I currently do not compost but in the future would like to and on a relatively small scale, like for a single person living in suburbs 1/4 acre.
Could you help? Where can we get Japanese that Jacques showcased in vegetables you want to grow? Appreciate it.
Can you provide a review of Android bar scanners, which are on sale today? - in terms of how these devices can assist with keeping track and documenting things, from a gardener's perspective? Thanks
I came expecting a roasting video but left more educated and informed. Great video, Kevin. Always enjoy the gardener reacts type videos.
Appreciate you Matthys!
Me too
He's a man of class.
Like roasted veggies? Lol
So true, i thought it'd be a roast as well and was pleasantly surprised
5:38 I remember there was a reddit post from an owner of a small orange farmer in France looking for legal advice. They said that one day they found like 15% of their crop sliced, squashed & left to rot on ground.
They were confused why would anyone do that? Later they found out some Tiktok videos of an American tourist picking, slicing & squashing oranges on their farm similar to that viral video. Apparently they kept slicing & squashing these oranges repeatedly until they get the “perfect shot”.
Now they’re looking for a way to sue these tourists
That's awful. The addiction to going viral is one of the worst things to ever happen to people in recent years. Hope that unfortunate farmer recovers what he can from that case.
As they should be sued. That's awful.
Wow! Unbelievable how someone will destroy another persons property for a 30 second video.
Tiktok is a scourge on humanity
# TeamFarmer. Go get 'em!
The Incas used those wide channels to grow potatoes at very high altitudes. The wide water channels not only watered the crops, but, took in heat from the sun and released it at night.
Exceptionally smart technique
They also freeze-dried their potatoes in a very complicated way for long-term storage. Some of the best farmers to ever live!
@@forestcreatureyt There was a lot of exceptionally advanced knowledge and engineering in a lot of ancient cultures - including quite a few things that we couldn't match today without modern electronics and heavy equipment.
@@greeneyedlady5580 we could easily do the same thing but machinery and electronics make it so so much easier. It's very cool to see ancient practises like these being used and we can definitely learn from them and it's cool to think how we coukd use these in our own gardens but they in no way compare to modern machinery in terms of scale.
"including quite a few things that we couldn't match today "
I don't get it...is this true? why can't we do the same thing today? what makes them so special
the juicy orange is everywhere on tiktok and everyone’s confused with it, glad someone found the answer to there questions!
It's EVERYWHERE 😂
@@epicgardening it’s like all that juice from the orange, spreading everywhere 😂😂
I was having such flashbacks to my families tobacco farm. Like the potato belt planter, we had a very similar machine that did two rows at a time. It sat 4 people (2 on each row) you'd have a big bin full of tobacco plants maybe 6" tall. The machine opened up the soil, watered the trench and this conveyer belt with these rubber "hands" would drop the plants. The hands would open at the top for you to place the plant, close to hold it, then spring open at the bottom and drop them in the earth just as the machine was closing the trench back up. Also too the metal tube planter was also used. After a week or so you'd go back in these field with a very simliar mechanism, it was a little thicker and has a separate chamber for water. You'd thrust that point into the soil where ever a transplant had died. You had a sort of hip pack with transplants and throw one in, the water chamber would drop in a splash of water. Then you'd just sort of take your foot and kick the dirt back around the plant. Filling in the field, could take days. Another very unique thing on Tobacco seedlings is the seeding process. Tobacco seeds are one of the smallest seeds out there, almost like a powder and they don't compete well with weeds. At my Dad's hardware store he sold tobacco plant seeds, they were so expensive, a little 2 oz. container that looked a little like a tiny milk carton would be hundreds if not thousands of dollars. So once you prepare a tobacco bed, you cover it with plastic and release this really toxic gas that kills EVERYTHING. You let the bed soak a bit. The gas only last a short time though (maybe day or two). Then once you have your seeds ready to go, you go back out on a windless day and rip the plastic off, the guys with the seed mix (seeds, sand, fertilizer) almost at a run would spread it all out as fast as possible, then they quickly cover it all back up. All to minimize weed competition. Once the seeds are maybe a couple of inches, you take off the plastic, put in these bamboo arches and cover with canvas to keep out more weeds and filter the sun a bit. These beds are never really out in full use but normally by a wooded area to keep the sun off. I grew up in the heart of the Tobacco belt and it is crazy just the things that are done to raise and harvest and cure the leaf. But this was the backbone of so many family farms and agricultural economies in Virginia and the Carolinas .
That was a super interesting story! I never would've guessed that such a major cash crop was so intensely difficult to cultivate
Thats why I like gardening. There are so many different ways to do it in just your area.
Some ways are more work than others, but then if you move from clay to sandy soil, your entire gardening world changes, but if you understand soil types and different methods, you can adapt yourself to your new land.
Exactly! There is no one right way. Even in one spot, a small scale gardener can try different methods or varieties as a hedge against weather conditions or fungus-of-the-year or other surprises.
I just love how you use these videos to teach us about the techniques and history. This is definitely one of my favorite segments.
Its refreshing to see a professional reacts video where the chosen videos are ones that can be verified as real. It's so much easier to find the mess and point at it. And while there is value in shining light on misleading info, it's just fun to watch something that seems too strange to be real and have it verified as real.
I love the shock on someone’s face when I tell them a loofa comes from a PLANT 😅 I’ve learned so much, I’ve wanted to start my own garden for months now
2:30 So when I spray off my Pond filters under a tree... I'm just doing a 10,000 year old farming method?
Koi poop is good fertilizer.
Try grilling mango on the bbq.. OMG, it takes it to a whole new level!
Sounds so good!
This was interesting and fun! I too love mangoes! Those early planting techniques from Central and South America are amazing. Have you read about the archeological finds that trace the hybridization of maíz? I grew some Hopi Azul corn (before the raccoons dug them up). It was really different. I hope one day to incorporate some of those ideas on a small scale. What you are doing on your Epic Homestead is so inspiring, Kevin!
I’m so glad someone cleared that whole viral “way too juicy for it’s own good” orange thing up😂
We use the quick cutter on our farm. Takes 10mins to cut a 200ft row. Saves sooo much time for a 7 acre farm with only two of us
Great video Kev. Nice to see someone explaining these videos well for others to know what is what. Great job pal
Thanks Tony!
I’m actually so interested in vertical gardening because we don’t have a lot of soil, but we eat a ton of vegetables. I hope to get to farm next time in my very own backyard!
I thought the best mango I'd ever had was straight off the tree in my grandmother's yard in Nigeria, but those Thailand mangos really take the cake. They're basically candy 🤤 paired with some sweet sticky rice? My God
I found you through Mark at “self sufficient me” a couple years ago. So happy to have someone in the states to reference as well! Just recently figured out you’re San Diego based and I used to live in Imperial Beach! In LA now but I’m gonna be getting a raised bed soon! Thank you for all of your help and the effort you put into your craft!
Man I love that guy mawk. He's a delight
@@chmchn Haha yes!
I had a similar mango in my back yard in Hawaii. It wasn't quite as big but it had a narrow flat seed and a lot of very sweet juicy flesh. I miss that tree! In fact, that's the one thing I miss about Hawaii. Not a big fan of papaya even though my father grew some monster watermelon papaya in the 50's.
You don’t like papayas!? They are the best
@@kookie_krissy6728 I know. Can't explain it.🤣
@@makulewahine it's likely to be in your genetics if you like them or not! Same with cilantro. To some they taste delicious, to others they taste like dish soap
That orange,I kept sticking my tongue out hoping I could catch some🤣😂🤣😂,my mouth is watering now..
Loved this video,thanks
From the England.
Have a blessed day & takecare,xx
I'd love to hear more about ancient gardening techniques 👍🏽
I really wanna taste that orange juice!!! And all these ancient/innovative farming techniques are necessary information. We need to preserve as many of these techniques as possible.
Lol. And natural Korean farming. It doesn't look weird at all. I routinely use fetid swamp water on all my crops.
I'd like to see you react to some crazy gardens or food forests. Like Canadian Permaculture Legacy's food forest or edible acres chicken compost setup.
I love it when you do these videos!
Though... I love all your videos, so I guess that's nothing new 😅
Honored!
Omg that orange tho 😮 I can get apples to juice way more than they should here in oklahoma (honey crisp and gala trees) and in Southern California i got avocados the size of large grapefruit, but never in my life have I seen an orange do that!!! I need those in my life! Gorgeous
That was an amazing video! I enjoyed seeing how others plant learning about different fruits I've never heard of.
About that mango, the seed is very very thin and that flesh is so so sweet!!! I got to get one soon to eat!!!
I need to try it!
My mouth watered at that sliced & scooped mango 👀😵💫🤤🤤
if i remember correctly the oranges are called Ehime Jelly Orange wich are like you said hybrid oranges of orange and tangerine. saw a tiktok of a person explaining these and why they look the way they do.
Oh I love these! ❤️ I have seen most of these done by the veggie boys or cut flower farmers. At least tic tock seems to show legitimate information vs blossom
Oh trust me there's plenty of Blossom-level hacks on TikTok too 😂
@@epicgardening yeah why I stick to sources I trust. Another roast video is always a blast 😉
There's also usually a good amount of manure, from various sources, in the dragonfruit trench style systems in Asia and other places using human and animal labour.
We're on TikTok - almost at 2 million! www.tiktok.com/@epicgardening
You can do it
we can make that 2 million!
Loofah is a great plant to grown and the young loofah can be eaten in a curry, older loofah can be used for so many cleaning around the house. I live on a farm in tropical Australia and a lot of these fruits and plants are grown here. I have a few on my farm.
what i can't figure out about the mango video is why they appear to have piles of what look like fake mangos scattered around the ground and on top of the trees. does anyone know what that's about?
Ya, the slice was the least of my questions regarding that video.
Honestly unsure how they did that...
This is the funnest tik tok analysis episode yet. And I need some of that orange juice!
Cool video! However, gotta point out that the chinampas the Mexica (also known as Aztecs) used didn't work as you explained. The Mexica settled in an area known as Lake Texcoco, which was a more or less shallow lake in the valley where Mexico City is located now, and developed this technique to build land for agricultural purposes on the lake itself. They'd stake vertical wooden logs encasing an area that would be the chinampa, then, on the inside, they'd lay a woven reed wall to block anything they'd throw in from going out the pit. Afterwards, they'd slowly fill the area with organic waste and mud until it was solid enough to walk on it. They'd then plant willow trees on the waterside of the chinampas to help prevent erosion. They'd plant a variety of things on them, but this technique was also used to just create land to walk on or live on. They did not "pump" organic waste from the bottom of the canals on the chinampas to fertilize/irrigate once they were built, I've actually never heard of anything like that before.
If you look at the other half of the mango that's on the ground, there's a whitish spot on it, which is likely a small part of the seed showing.
On the second to last clip, it appears they laid the plastic out and then filled the divots with water to keep the plastic down and show where the depressions in the ground are. Then the guy is piercing the plastic only big enough for the crop to get planted through. After he pulls the tool out the water obviously makes its way into the soil around the crop immediately.
Good eye!
I was expecting something different, but these were legitimately cool
The juicy orange looks like a Mandarina. They are darker orange and flatter instead of round. They are very juicy (not that juicy LOL), and sometimes seedless.
You can see the seed on other half of the mango. Here in Panamá, we also have some huge mangos called "mango papaya" with a small seed
the transplanted at 4:50 is a pottiputki tree planter. They've been around quite a long time
NEED A SERIES ON APARTMENT GARDENING IJSN
i have been wondering what was up with the oranges for months now. 😂
Thank you for doing the tiktok about the powdery orange! I saw it and was like ewww what is the powdery mess on the orange can't be good for you lol good information on what that powers was! Thanks again!
I've worked on a planter like the potato, but it was for watermelons, and ive worked on something similar to the video after that, with the tube and planting. We just had a long stick that made a hole and someone passed by and planted whatever they were planting that season.
this video was amazing. so many jaw dropping moments. as a trained gardener I know how much I dont know yet. Can you do the same for temperate zones. I love fresh mangos and real sweet bananas but I am back home with less heat and would love some new stuff. I trust you.
Can't believe myself that i am actually hyped about gardening.
Been scrolling on your channel and so far have never seen any banana tree videos, specifically dwarf Cavendish because i brought one and was looking for tips
0:30 yes we have one of the greens harvester and washing machine made for drying them after the wash on a farm I used to work at. Way more cost effective
those oranges look delicious
Love all your videos! The ones with you and Jacques debunking gardening hacks are hilarious. 😂
Laughed at your comment about cutting the mangoes, "very strategically cut the side...". LOL That's how you should cut a mango!!
Honestly I'd say that's a slightly large mango but not huge. Grew up in NT Australia and have worked on some mango farms for picking and even growing on another farm (as trials, spent alot of time there but they grew elite cashew trees, then sold the grafts and seeds to other farms).
Most the big ones are sold either at farmers markets but majority is sold as export to the Asia region.
I love love love farmers and gardeners.
dude i could drink that orange right now, im thirsty as hell on top of it, it just looks like the worlds best thing right now!
Fabulous video. You are absolutely right about how gardening is hard on backs. Anything that avoids back strain is a winner. Could you do a video about ways of gardening that are easy on the back? Raised beds of course, but what else?
For sure
I put my grow bags up on a crate or something unless they are 20+gallons. Those stay on the ground, 😉
Check out keyhole gardening. Recycled my yard waste and no bending to tend crops once built. Many kits on market.
If you ever find where you can buy that orange juice let us know cause I would love to try it.
That orange looks so delicious
We have large mangoes like that here in the Bahamas, they’re called Peach Mango
Im so used to these mostly being BS I was surprised when they were all legit.
A lot of farmers in Asia just tik tok as their way to advertise directly to consumers rather than sell to a middle man! That's probably why there's so many cropping up now.
That potato planter reminds me a bit of watching the Amish plant corn. Around my area I've seen them sit on low seats on either side of the person guiding the horses and placing seedlings into the ground
Whao thank you for educating us! I thought for the longest time the orange was fake! I love mango, but seriously I feel bad whenever they scoop it with the dirty spoon and you see dirt on the beautiful flesh 😹 it gets me every time...
But how? You answered, love this💖thank you & that orange & mango!!! Seriously though that orange is beautiful.
I loved this video. It was very refreshing to see a video showing authentic farming/gardening methods.
Cool video with very interesting fruits & growing methods.
Omg now I'm really thirsty for mangos and orange juice 🥭🍊
Those oranges are Ehime Jelly oranges found in japan. Its a special cross breed made in japan to be just like that.
Refreshing to see reaction to TikTok videos that isn't debunking them.
These were VERY COOL!!!
THANKS SO MUCH!!
I'm fascinated with that orange. Do you happen to know what variety that was in the clip? I don't have TikTok, but what came up when I searched online was Valencia, and that skin thickness and color doesn't favor a Valencia orange.
It seems like a blood orange may be somewhere in the hybrid mix with the level of juice it produced, but it didn't look like a blood orange either.
It looks closest to a tangelo to me.
I've been trying to figure it out!
Something's off with that video. It seems way too much volume of juice compared to the volume of the orange. The amount of juice that flowed out should show the orange be halfway to fully pressed.
There's a video online of a couple who tried it with oranges that look pretty much the same and they got nowhere near the same amount.
Wouldn't be suprised if the person in the original video faked it or even injected juice inside the orange before cutting it.
Thanks for explaining some of these.
@epicgardening the Chinampas were actually constructed the opposite way of what you describe in the video. They would create these in lakes they are essentially artificial islands. Created by making a ring wall of sticks and wood and filling it with soil until an island was created. Then they would plant on these islands using canoes to transport goods back and forth.
Greetings from over the pond in Wales. Love your informative vids great to watch. Diolch yn fawr bach
2:35 i did this method plenty when i played minecraft
Excellent video! Thanks!🙏🏾
Do you know what type of orange it is?
These are my favorite kinds of videos from you :)
love that orange!
are those sunflowers behind you? huge! i have a good amount going and cant wait till they get to size!
Yes they are!
I'm wondering if you can eat the rind of tne orange at the end like a kumquat? I've always wanted a hybrid giant citrus where the rind could be eaten like a kumquat!
I loved this video. Thanks for explaining these TikTok stuff .
Oh you really did your homework. I’m impressed. Thank you
One day I'll be as cool as you, Kevin ❤️
My garden is so small, it's my kitchen window sill (I live in a flat).
I would love to see you do things I could grow apart from herbs.
The orange tho oh my god I felt sooooo thirsty
Love this video. I would love one of the stickers like the one that's on your lap top
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Great video. It was so refreshing to see tried and true gardening/farming methods.
love your videos and the information you have shared! peace and love from Ohio
This is often done in Vietnam. Unable to purchase machine, they would do this manually every year.
That luffa pile - they are widely used as a dish sponge or a bath sponge in many Eastern Asian cultural areas. Some of them are more delicately processed, and the video as I believe is showing that one of such factory rehydrating the luffa in preparation for further processing.
this really is some epic gardening
I love a man who gardens I really do
I try to go to thailand as often as I can. My kickboxing trainer is retired and he lives out there in a village about a 2 hour drive from Bangkok.
The first thing that I do in thailand is eat as much fruit as i can get my hands on. Even grapes in Thailand are Massive. When you are in a Rural area if you see a farm, all you need to do is walk up and ask if they have anything to sell which i can promise you that they will, they will likely hand you a basket, tell you to pick what you want, weigh it, you pay them and you're on your way.
That was really cool. Thanks for Sharing!
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Oh wow, I bet the juice from those oranges was glorious !!