Hi everybody, it's Joe Lample, the Joe behind Joe Gardner and welcome to the Joe Gardner

show.

Are you ready for another strong geek alert today?

For your listening pleasure, this episode is all about bricks, not the bricks you use

to build houses, but the bricks spelled B-R-I-X that measures the sugar level in plants.

It's a powerful tool to help farmers and gardeners determine the overall health of their

plants, which in turn can give strong clues as to the plant's vulnerability to pest as

well as other related threats.

And perhaps you've heard of this term before, but measuring the bricks reading as a tool

for making adjustments to your soil health or plant nutrition can be a powerful tool for

minimizing the pest pressure on your plants.

And if you've ever researched bricks before, there's a very good chance you've read or

listened to or watched a video featuring today's guest, Dr. Tom Dykstra.

He's the man in the know when it comes to everything bricks.

So today that's what we're doing, as well as sharing with you how you can take your own

bricks readings and what you can do to improve those levels for the plants in your gardener

farm.

And here's a bit more about our guest today, Dr. Tom Dykstra.

Dr. Dykstra received a degree in entomology from Cornell University in 1990 and then a

master's from University to Florida in entomology.

And he followed that up with his PhD in insect bioelectromagnetics in 1997, both from the

University to Florida and he didn't waste any time following his degree and starting

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