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- Jey & Anna: Hey everyone, welcome to the Toot Tools No Clue podcast. I'm Anna. And I'm Jeiden. And on today's mini-sode, mini but great!, we are doing part long-awaited, ⁓ This is a Gardening Show commentary. And this time is Jeiden's turn. Yep, me. ⁓ So in these episodes, we follow Zach as he ⁓ talks about the dirt on root vegetables, ⁓ the corny jokes and the history of corn, and the tea about composting, which I enjoyed and that one was the shortest, but that's okay. I still learned a lot. And I think it's really funny because we were waiting until each one of us did our parts to then sit down collectively and watch it through together. Well, we no longer have Netflix, so we will never see it together. The opposite parts. I will only have ever seen one through three and poor Jey will have only ever seen four through six. Yeah. So I mean, whoops. For what it's worth, I enjoyed four through six. But there's collective Yeah, so, you know, as you guys already can tell through the episodes, he goes around and he asks the stupid questions about, you know, gardening for us. Are they stupid though? They're not, but like that's what he calls them. Like he really says my stupid questions. ⁓ I think it was cool because he started every episode questioning these ⁓ about various things. ⁓ And that was one of the good parts that I enjoyed. So in episode four, it was all about root vegetables. He first stopped at ⁓ elementary school and he quizzed them on their knowledge of root vegetables. ⁓ how'd they do? They did very well, actually. some of this the same school that was having them go out and forage though because i have high hopes for these children probably i it kind of seemed like it was the same school so of all the things that he questioned these kids on the one thing that i took from it was this joke from a five-year-old it was a tree joke do you want to hear it yes i do of course i do okay what is a tree's favorite drink It's root beer. ⁓ I love that. I hate root beer, but I love that joke. That's amazing. Yeah. He made that up? Probably not. ⁓ was like, dang. I haven't heard it yet. Fun fact, something that I also learned, not from this child, but just they would put up these random facts throughout the episodes. saw them, I'm sure, in her own episodes. I didn't see them. ⁓ I quoted them directly. Yeah. Every single one. Yeah, I'm quoting them as well, just like Anna. ⁓ So fun fact, early man learned to dig root vegetables from observing primates. Interesting. My brothers and sisters, friends, whether you like to admit it or not. I'm surprised how early man are we talking? I'm surprised it wasn't just like ingrained in us. I don't know if it was the cavemen. don't know, but that's how they figured it out. That's wild. Yeah, thought literally I felt that was pretty cool. ⁓ So after the interviews, he goes to Armara Farms where he learns the real dirt on root vegetables from Arzina, the root vegetable specialist. Arzina? Yeah. ⁓ So in this last part of the episode, they, we follow them as they plant carrots and potatoes. And they also go into the fields and pick fresh carrots and potatoes. And Zach had some really good questions for her. some of the footage that I mean, Okay, if you don't know who we're referencing yet, like he's the guy with the baby in the hangover. Okay, like he's not a serious man. He makes his living off of his comedy. ⁓ it's, ⁓ just a very funny man. And like, they had these all these outtakes of him just like walking through the fields like I don't know. was amazing. ⁓ He also was like betting on what colors these vegetables were gonna come out at the end and he like calls his partner and he's like, I'm sorry honey, I lost the last of our money. ⁓ gambling on potatoes. think it was potatoes or something. It was so silly. But yeah, so they go around and they plant. he asked a lot of good questions. One that stuck out with me the most was the difference between root vegetable roots like carrots compared to the roots of a tomato. His question was simple, but the answer was really educational. Arzina explained us that vegetables grow by the plant focusing all of its attention on a certain part. Plants that bear fruits, for example, are where you will find all the sugars and carbohydrates build up. For root plants, it's the opposite, making the roots the main focus instead of what grows above the surface. I also didn't know that you should leave your potatoes in the ground until the leaves start turning yellow. Just like garlic, like it wilts away. You do not do that when we grew potatoes? I was just so impatient. would like to my hand in there and be like, ⁓ I need to do potatoes. I've done it. I've done it. yeah, so I've just always been way too impatient. So they're always too ⁓ yeah, that was kind of the gist of the first episode. He roamed the fields with Arzina asked her a lot of questions. ⁓ I thought it was ⁓ interesting how like there's everybody just plants their things differently. Yeah. But farmers like, when we grow our plants at our house, we're just like so particular and like do all these things. This one tiny seed and farmers are just like just Throw it in there and stand on it. What? Well, I've noticed that some things work for some people and they don't for others. Yeah. Like I'll be scrolling on our TikTok, which is like 99 % gardening videos. And someone, the video I'm referencing, someone was like, I hate having to pluck out all of these seedlings because they're, they're going to compete for space. Yeah. It's the worst part of gardening. They always feel bad for them. Yeah. And someone's like, ⁓ I never thin my seedlings. I always just let them battle it out. And someone commented and was like, doesn't it make them small No. And they like sent a picture and these radishes are like whole sized radishes. They didn't thin them, but other people, they were having a hard time with it. So they had to. ⁓ Right? Yeah. I was thinking about stuff like that. I just think it's interesting. also saw a video where people are saying like, screw companion planting. Like just get a handful of a mix of seeds and throw it into a bed and like. They were saying as soon as something's ready, harvest it in that way it will get out of the way for the next thing. I don't know about that, but it sounded really interesting. That sounds pretty cool. Maybe we should have a wild bed. Yeah, we should try. That'd be pretty funny, honestly. Wild vegetables rather than wild flowers. Yeah, right? We should definitely try that. see what happens. I'm down. Pick a spot in the garden. We'll try it out. Put them out of dirt, you know me. I'm ready to go. So in episode five, Zach takes us to the cornfields. You know how I feel about cornfields. You sketch me out. But. Are you gonna tell them about the one cornfield? If you want me to. Okay, one time we went to Maine for a wedding with some of our old coworkers and we ended up at this gas station, but the gas station was literally surrounded by cornfields. It was really creepy. not much service out there, whatever, just like the start of a really horrible horror movie and I hate horror movies and I hate being out in the middle of nowhere. what enticed you into this field? I don't know, maybe aliens, something. So like me and this kid were like, oh, we're going to go into the cornfield and There's pictures of us coming out of the cornfield. We are literally hauling ass out of the cornfield. They're just a blur in We're a blur, okay? Cause like the flash is going off and we're like... And I can't even tell you. what happened? I just was walking and then all of sudden I was hauling my ass out of there. Something was like, out of my cornfield. Yeah. ⁓ so yeah, I just, I don't trust them. You know, I'm a 90s kid. So I remember like the kid, the children of the corn bullshit. Like I'm all set. you know that the main kid in that movie was like an adult? He has some sort of growth. That's creepier. didn't know that, but that was really creepy. I don't think I even ever watched that movie. what makes that movie extra creepy, because ⁓ he's on an intelligence level that is above these kids. Yeah, was way this was actually a kid, it would be very creepy because of how intelligent he was, but he's a grown man, so it makes sense. But it's still creepy though, because in movie he's a child. anyway, so He he does go to the school and it's just a bunch of corny jokes lol lol all it is I'm gonna spare you Then he then we go and we meet Murray Murray Murray was a character. I feel like I'm probably going to be Murray when I'm old ⁓ He, Murray is the guy from McNabb's farm. All he does his entire life is corn. he was very straightforward farmer. ⁓ Very straightforward. ⁓ I thought was funny know, Zach would ask him like really random, scientific questions about corn or the history of corn. He'd be like, I know nothing ⁓ about that. I grow corn. I thought it was really funny. And then at one point he was just giving him a hard time. And then he goes, well, I'll ask you this, is corn a grain? And he was like, I don't know. And I'm and I'm really like, it? Like he's like, stop asking me questions. You know what I mean? So they go around the cornfield, like this man is very old. Like I said, he's close to retirement, very stubborn man has this huge tractor. Okay. And they're going around the farm and at first, like he gets in this tractor and he just drives away. So Zach is like literally chasing him to go to the next spot. I thought it was wicked funny. It's it's old man behavior, you know what I mean? Like, you're too slow. Exactly. So, anyway, he was talking about how corn self-pollinates and the top of the plant actually has to pollinate the strands of the hair on the cobs and I did not know that. I had no idea how corn came to be. I just thought it was kind of like cucumbers where like maybe it would flower but I've never seen flowers on corn that doesn't happen. True. So, okay. I'm going to tell you how it's But I'm going to read this so that I don't mess it up. so the top of the plant has to pollinate the strands of the hair at the tops of every cob. How does that happen through the wind? How does it pollinate itself? Yeah, I think just like the wind and stuff. I don't really know. So anyway, each hair represents a kernel. So if you've ever had a corn on the cob that's missing some, that's because it just, didn't get pollinated. That strand didn't get pollinated. Isn't that weird? And that's why all those pieces of hair are in there because they made the corn. It's like the umbilical cord is what it makes me think of. sense why there's so many of those hairs too. Yeah. I was... very impressed all of a sudden with the creation of corn because i didn't think it was like that i just thought it would like happen corn is fascinating yes the corn we have today is so much different than the corn that they used historically yes so i was just gonna get i was just gonna get into that look at me so corn hold on first introduce you to Michael because Murray did not know that information. Bring in Michael. Michael was the actual corn specialist. we need your answers. He's an archaeologist. Okay, so like he studies a lot of different things but his main focus was the history of like food and grains. Okay, Michael, I'm not sure about that but we'll give you the time of day. why you would pick that as your focus and studies book. we appreciate it. I was so expecting you to be like Michael is the expert in corn and instead no our archeology archeology. I'm like ancient grains and stuff like that which is corn so any that is true that is true. I just when I think of archaeologists I think of like dinosaurs. Yeah that's true that's a good point but there's more. I just imagine him the sand digging for fossils of ⁓ ⁓ don't know how they figured this out honestly but it's pretty funny to think of him doing that. anyway, corn was farmed by humans. The original corn is called Teosinte. So it's smaller. ⁓ corn itself or the kernels? Like the husk? All of it, the husk. All of it is smaller. Like not as sweet as well, which I thought was very interesting. He also answered the question is corn a grain. And he said, not only is it a grain, it is one of the three most important food crop grains in the world. Some other facts that I learned during this episode are that Europe was introduced to corn in the late 15th century. I didn't realize it wasn't something that could be grown everywhere, but that makes sense. Corn is so invasive in our culture. It's just all over the world. can't even picture that corn wasn't a native. ⁓ I know these explorers you know how they were with the spices don't get me started I already had a whole rant about it but they episode 5 yeah that's the mini episode but whatever ⁓ So yeah, I didn't realize that it wasn't something found on every continent at first, but like many crops, was brought over by greedy explorers in the 16th century. They began growing corn in Italy, Portugal and Spain because of, because of this. most European farmers still to this day will not eat it though. They consider it animal food. interesting. most of europe will not like corn. scotland does. scotland loves corn. i gonna say i can't remember if i ate corn in scotland. scotland loves corn. well scotland are the real ones so. so yeah um that was mainly the gist of that episode. murray was pretty stubborn but funny. can grow corn that's all he needs to do in listen he did let zack drive the tractor at the end. wow. He almost ran over his potato patches and he wasn't that happy but he did survive and it was really comical to watch that old man yell at him like that. think he did that on purpose just for the bit? I don't know. I really can't tell. He seemed, he was yelling. Like you know when an old man... Come on! I wanna see this! It was pretty good. He's like... potato patches because he was in the tractor with him like and they could barely fit like it was really funny because like he didn't trust him that much to drive no I wouldn't let him drive he's you know how to drive that thing and he's like yeah I do and then he like somehow turned it on so maybe he does know how to drive a tractor but he was like and that's what he said he said okay he's still not in there anyway so yeah that was ⁓ was episode five episode okay yeah corn it was pretty funny ⁓ but I did learn some interesting things about corn that I did not realize especially how it becomes corn yeah that's wild yeah but again a pretty short episode they're only like I think the shortest one I had was like 12 minutes, which is the composting one. And then I think this one was like only like 14 minutes. Yeah, they were really short. But I don't know. I thought I think he did a good job for like small information verse like comedy. Yeah, part of it. So, yeah, like I said, so episode six is all about composting. He was actually really excited to go. see this composting lady because he himself has been making his own compost so he was like really excited and I thought just that alone made the episode special because I think it was his favorite episode honestly I'm excited to know what you have to say because composting is one of those things that seems so simple and so confusing all at the same time yeah I did walk away kind of confused about what I should be composting. no. Well we should be composting. I mean more of like when do you rotate it? Because I mean we have a compost pile in quotes for our listeners and it is literally just we take our little kitchen compost and we throw the scraps on top of the scraps and then we put the leaves on top of it and then we walk away. We have never once rotated any of that. I have no idea what it would be like. ⁓ So he does go to a school to begin this episode and he like quizzes them on just like random garden things. And they, again, knew a lot. They were like sitting inside of a garden house. It was like a rainy day. Just like asking these questions to them. And it was really nice to see that kids not only naturally knew the answers to these things, that some of the adults that I know. in our in our lives daily like don't know how things are grown because they've lived in a city or really anything like that like they knew it they're being taught it and they're absorbing it you know what i mean like they're understanding the connections it's not just like this is a fact that i learned at school today like they really understand it which is really nice to see ⁓ considering everything else that's going on right now yeah I'm just now remembering I think this is all the same school. I think it's one school in Vancouver. It makes sense. ⁓ okay. Makes way more sense. That fact just plopped into my head. So after any questions the kids he heads over to ⁓ Merville. where we learn about the process of composing from expert Joyce. Joyce was very easygoing, very kind lady. You know what's weird? Sorry to cut you off. Every joy I've ever met, horrible. I feel like we've said this before on the episode. Horrible. Horrible. Joyce's lovely people. Sweethearts. What is that about? ⁓ It's like it's too ironic of a name. They just cannot hang. Yeah. You're not wrong. Sorry. Yeah. So we also learn about what is good and what is bad for your compost bins. So... What is composting anyway? was one of the first questions. And Zach does give us the breakdown before we meet the professionals. Composting provides the ideal environment for organisms like bacteria and fungi to break down organic waste. The stuff that is left is compost. Joyce dives right into what makes up a good compost mixture. She says a nice mixture of carbon like leaves or high nitrogen like grass clippings. sets up a game to test Zack's composting knowledge and this is where like I was thrown for a loop with some of the stuff. Basically from the game is this is what we learn Some things are good for the compost bin and others are horrible things that are horrible plastic dog and cat poop. Don't do it Don't be weird. Well is the whole point of compost is to get Compost for your garden. Is it not? Yeah, so why would you be putting feces in there? Horrible horrible bread fish eggs Bread? What? Okay, here I am judging people. Barbecue, Riddick's, gum, tea bags, dairy. And so this is why tea bags used to be compostable. Hold on, you're not giving me time to process any of this. Okay, so before you panic, eggshells technically, bread technically, it can be done, Joyce it was bad because it attracts animals to your compost bin. So that's why those things are labeled bad. Why do those specifically attract animals and not like the veggies that I'm putting in there? I don't know. Well, I feel like she, don't know. I'm not sure. Weird. Yeah. And so like the tea bag thing, like I didn't actually realize this that tea bag companies, shame on you. They started making their tea bags. out of plastic. You were telling that to the starter lady. Yeah, that's where I learned it. Oh, interesting. Because I'm still thinking about it. It's living rent free in my mind once a day when I drink my fricking tea. I guess I don't know what it was before that. Before it was plastic. was cloth. Yeah. it wasn't plastic. So not all companies do this, but a lot of them do. So shame on you and check your tea bags, I guess, because that's weird. Yeah, I wonder if it says it on the packaging. it's plastic. I should check. wonder. Looking at you, Bigelow. Oh my goodness. Are you plastic or are you good? So things that are good. leaves, shredded paper, sticks, coffee grounds, peels, cotton textiles, wood ashes, and cedar. That's it? Yes, that's it. Okay, now I'm even more confused because I thought compost was for food scraps. Peels. Okay, and like every other food scrap I ever produce. the tops of strawberries. Yeah, that's, that's okay. Like I consider that appeal an apple that got mushy before I could get to it. Like, yeah, I think you're okay. You're freaking me out. Well, I was freaking out too. So welcome to the club. I he leaves us on this. He's like, bye. Yeah. That's the end of the gardening show. But so, okay. Like I said, I was confused as well. like the eggshells are on the list but that's only because they attract animals it's actually really good for your compost and because it's high in calcium and Joyce still say that okay so she's like if you compost needs it put it in there but like just get a really good compost bin she actually had this really she was very simple did not turn she just like would dig at it layer it and it was like this metal box. Oh, a fancy guy. Yeah. It had a lid on top and she would just layer it. She said you would dig into it into the ground. You'd like dig a hole of the area that you needed to the ground. Put it in there and that way the animals can't dig into it because it's like a little further down. I like my dad and Nikki have one like that. Ours is literally just those segment fences, the metal black segment fences. build a fence. Yeah, the animals get in there all the time, but it's never an issue like every now and then I'll see like a Scrap of a clementine or something weird. Yeah out of the compost, but it's nothing crazy It's not like they've just blown up the area. Yeah, and they haven't destroyed it So don't this scare you from composting. Yeah, still compost. it's this complicated. ⁓ So they the episode with Joyce taking a look at his compost because he brought some. Oh wow. I say he was excited, like this was 100 % his favorite episode. And it was the shortest one, that's so weird. Like, light and humor because he was just excited, you know what I mean? He was still funny, but it wasn't, I don't know, there wasn't much filler because it was just him being very excited about the compost. And she said it was really good. that made him even more excited. that was the end of the episode. And it kind of made me inspired to at least try to do our own because we do have a lot of natural clippings and everything available to us already. So we could be probably making our own compost. But yeah, I don't know. I enjoyed watching them. I am kind of bummed that I can't watch the first three. But between Zach and then the people that he was choosing and kind of just all the topics and then obviously the kids at the school, like I thought it was a short episode season that he did because it was only six episodes altogether, ⁓ from like what 12 ⁓ 16 minutes probably at the most. Yeah. ⁓ But yeah, I enjoyed them. Yeah, I'm really bummed that I'm not gonna... Maybe you can like bootleg them or something. We're probably gonna end up with Netflix again at some point. Yeah, that's where all the good comedy is, unfortunately. We have been trying to be more conscious about the providers that we're using right now. Just because... I don't know, things are getting crazy and you really do have to vote with your money. You vote with your dollar every day. Every day and it sounds silly but it's true, you know, if you're gonna support the evil then... Which means Amazon Jeidan looking you. go to. We canceled our DoorDash. We canceled Netflix. We're about to cancel Spotify. We're about to cancel Spotify. Should we say that? I don't think we should say that. Okay, we take that back. We'll take it back. We haven't canceled it yet. We're thinking about canceling some other ⁓ because I don't know. It's important to us and it should be important to everybody too. Like our democracy is failing us. you got to them where it actually hurts them. And it's your dollars friends because like take it from us every single fucking day before we even get our paychecks. then again, yeah, support your neighbors. Your neighbor has fresh eggs. Get your fresh eggs there. Any little bit you can to bring it into your community instead of these corporations. Do it even if it's a dollar more if you can do it with it being just a little bit more expensive Sometimes it's not even that much more expensive. Yeah, sometimes it's shocking and it doesn't mean That we're not going out and getting food. That's takeout like that's still happening. ⁓ yeah, does it require a Car ride. Yes, and we are also trying to curb it in that sense too Like if we want to go out for pizza, we're not doing Domino's we're doing our local pizza place. Exactly. That's what I was just all about the mindset. Because that's the only way we're gonna get back on track when I think of the things that I miss the most as a kid when I when I think back even just like you know ten years ago. It's like all those small things, all those small connections and we just have to get back to them. We forgot about them and they are still important to us. So we have to value them and that means supporting them. So yeah. ⁓ That's our PSA. Farmer's Almanac time. Let's do it. All right. So today is May 28th. Hubble image of TMR-1C object released 1998. Good year. I was eight. You were eight? I was two. Yeah. I knew you were going say that. and is the best day to brew, demolish, buy a home, advertise to sell, mow to promote growth, plant above-ground crops, breed animals, and slaughter livestock. Damn, what a productive day! Alright, Thursday. Well, you know you guys should be doing. Not to us. We're done so you should go be productive. With your livestock. ⁓ And your Yeah, tell me about your mowing. Not about the slaughter of the And your brewing and demolishing. True. ⁓ Demolish on, and sisters. ⁓ You can follow us at Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok @twotoolsnocluepodcast You can to our Patreon at patreon.com/twotoolsnoclue. 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