237 - How to Amend Your Soil Before Spring Planting
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.7 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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On today's podcast I will help you amend your soil organically before planting this spring.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, I don't know where this week finds you, but here we are in the middle of spring break, |
| 0:06.2 | which usually means this week is a little bit more slow-paced, but I also do a lot of work in my garden over spring break as well. |
| 0:14.1 | So if this episode finds you in your garden, then I'm hoping this will be a timely one. |
| 0:20.2 | We're going to be talking about how to amend your soil |
| 0:23.6 | before your spring planting. |
| 0:25.1 | It's a question that I have gotten repeatedly |
| 0:28.1 | over the last several months. |
| 0:29.9 | And I thought, you know, it would be a good idea |
| 0:31.7 | just to address how to do this or how I do it. |
| 0:35.0 | It's not necessarily that there's one size fits all. But as I like to do, |
| 0:39.6 | I'm going to talk to you a little bit about the big picture. As an organic gardener, what are you |
| 0:45.1 | trying to accomplish? Because you may or may not have figured out that organic gardening is |
| 0:51.8 | different. It's not just a matter of I'm not going to spray certain |
| 0:56.2 | pesticides or herbicides. The actual feeding of our soil, which in turn feeds our plants, |
| 1:04.1 | is a completely different process than if you're gardening in a conventional way and you use |
| 1:09.8 | the fertilizer with the big old numbers on the |
| 1:12.4 | bags that a lot of us grew up watching our parents do. |
| 1:16.8 | Organic gardening is different. |
| 1:18.6 | It's slower. |
| 1:19.5 | It's long term. |
| 1:20.5 | It's not a quick fix. |
| 1:22.1 | Conventional gardening is a quick fix. |
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