2 Steps to Improve Sandy Soil
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Less common but still an issue in the garden is overly sandy soil. Here is the "one-two" punch to fix your soil and get growing.
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| 0:00.0 | What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. I hope you are having an incredible day. |
| 0:06.0 | It's a beautiful day in the garden and your plants are growing to epic proportions. |
| 0:10.0 | Today we're going to talk about something that I have never discussed on the |
| 0:15.1 | podcast because it's a less common problem at least in my experience but I think it is |
| 0:20.4 | one that hopefully some of you out there can get some value from and that would be how to improve your sandy soil. |
| 0:27.0 | I've done a lot on improving clay, that's the one that I'm more familiar with, but sandy soils what we're talking about today. |
| 0:33.2 | Before we do so, let's go ahead and talk about the podcast review of the day. |
| 0:38.4 | This is from Roses and Red Hair. |
| 0:40.0 | I recently discovered Epic Gardening on YouTube and I am thrilled to as a result have access to this |
| 0:44.7 | podcast. |
| 0:45.7 | This is my very first year gardening and the simple straightforward information has been an immense |
| 0:49.2 | help to me. |
| 0:50.2 | It makes me feel like I got this. Well, we got you, roses and red hair. |
| 0:55.0 | Thank you so much for reviewing. |
| 0:56.0 | And let's go ahead and get into today's episode, |
| 0:58.0 | Gardening and sandy soil. |
| 1:00.0 | It can be a great challenge because there's not a lot of inherent nutrition within that soil. |
| 1:06.0 | Water will drain through very quickly and it can be quite frustrating. |
| 1:12.0 | There are some advantages though to growing in sandy soil. |
| 1:16.7 | If you listen to the earlier episode this week on carrots, you'll know that most root crops |
| 1:22.0 | will do a lot better in a sandy loam |
| 1:24.6 | than they will do in a clay loam. |
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