Epic Gardening

They were both in my kitchen garden, but they were in two different, very different beds.

One of them was my 15 inch tall metal raised bed from Epic Gardening.

And one was my 30 inch tall metal raised bed from Epic Gardening.

So the difference there is obviously 15 inches tall versus 30 inches tall, but that wasn't just the difference.

That wasn't the only difference.

Gardening, I think it's called.

Yeah, Epic Gardening.

He's this really handsome, cool dude who you would not think is into gardening, but he loves it.

And he started a website, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube on gardening.

And if you innately have it, then you're sort of good to go.

My name is Kevin Espiritu and I am the founder of Epic Gardening, which is the world's most followed gardening brand.

Bootstrapped it to $7.3 million a year and now do tens of millions a year in revenue.

[upbeat music] So we're here at my homestead, I call it, in suburban San Diego.

And you can...

There, there's a website called, or there's a YouTube channel with Epic Gardening.

He's out in California.

He does a fantastic 40-minute video on it.

It's not gonna be as prolific as what happens in March, March, April, and May, that when, you know, they shoot up and it may be within three months they go from just still being, you know, three or four inches tall to I've had some that are two and a half feet, almost three feet tall.

So it really depends on your soil, how well they're cared for.

And one other thing I wanna talk about the garlic is, yeah, if you go to Epic Gardening, man, he's a, a man and he has an assistant who, you know, they, they, they, they grew several hundred pounds of garlic, and I had fifty pounds last year, and the biggest challenge was trying to cure all of it.

But now I'm doing the, um...

And the idea is that over time, that will break down and become part of the soil.

Um, I have seen some YouTube videos, I think Epic Gardening did one, where they buried a log and they checked, like, three or four years later, and the log was still completely intact.

So it takes a long, long time.

Depends on the species of wood you're burying.

[laughs]

But many of my subscribers and friends would, uh, know that a, uh, pretty epic video came out this weekend, and the whole reason why I shaved my beard, uh, the video we filmed for Epic Gardening, What to Grow in October, finally came out, and everyone got to see me in my three, count 'em, three Michael Jackson costumes, uh, planting in October.

It was a pretty fun video, so, uh, my kids really got a kick out of seeing that.

[laughs] What about you, uh, Derrick?

Hmm.

'Cause I know Kevin over at Epic Garden, he just, uh, dropped a video.

He's been growing his coffee beans, uh, you know, his cherries for three years, and he finally was able to get enough to harvest.

Mm.

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I got into some filming projects.

I'm going to say, look, if you're not subscribed to Epic Gardening, you need to because we have a pretty big project coming up.

And it's the whole reason why I shaved my face.

Did Epic and did Kevin asked me to shave my face? No, but I am that committed to my craft that I said the beard needs to go.