016-Composting Guide A to Z: The Quick and Dirty on Everything Compost
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Joe Lamp'l
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🗓️ 7 September 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
If I were only able to give one piece of gardening advice, it would be to feed the soil (and let the soil feed the plants). The essence of any garden’s success begins and ends with the soil. And the best way to build the health of any soil is with compost – the greatest organic […]
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Joe Gardner show, the podcast all about gardening, |
| 0:08.0 | where we cover everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required. |
| 0:13.0 | And now, here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, |
| 0:16.5 | and the Joe behind Joe Gardner, Joe Lample. |
| 0:19.9 | Hi everybody, it's Joe Lample, the Joe behind Joe Gardner and I am your host for the |
| 0:24.4 | Joe Gardner show thanks for listening today today |
| 0:27.8 | today we're going to talk about one of my favorite subjects okay maybe it is my favorite subject and that is compost or composting and |
| 0:37.9 | we've talked about that a little bit in the past. We had an episode with Lee Reisch |
| 0:41.1 | about it and I probably allude to it all the time but today we're going to take a deeper dive into this subject. |
| 0:48.6 | Consider this your complete guide to home composting. In fact I wrote that guide by that title |
| 0:55.3 | which is going to be available to you for free as a download and I'll tell you how to |
| 1:00.6 | do that at the end of this episode. |
| 1:02.8 | But we're going to pick it apart and talk to you |
| 1:06.3 | about some of the most important things |
| 1:07.9 | about why composting is important, |
| 1:10.2 | how do you make it quickly, the do's and don'ts the objections so here's the bottom line just right off the |
| 1:16.7 | bat in all of gardening especially organic gardening the essence of the |
| 1:22.0 | success begins and it ends with this soil. I have this mantra, |
| 1:26.7 | feed the soil and let the soil feed the plants. Okay? So the point of that is, do you want to feed the plants with a junk food diet of synthetic |
| 1:37.0 | fertilizer that there's no soil fertility and the plants are dependent to get that fertility |
| 1:42.3 | on what you're providing it through |
| 1:43.7 | artificial fertilizers or do you want to build that health within the soil and the way |
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