3 Raised Bed Soil Combinations Tested
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🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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There are a lot of different raised bed mixes out there, so which is best? Jill McSheehy tested three different mixes over the course of a year to answer this question!
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. |
| 0:16.6 | Jill McShihyhi is back with me on the podcast. She is behind her own |
| 0:20.7 | podcast, the Beginners Garden Podcast Podcast I recommend you go check that |
| 0:23.8 | out I've been on there before and it's a fantastic fantastic podcast she's also |
| 0:28.2 | the author of the book Vegetable Gardening for Beginners which I've linked in the podcast description, and again, I recommend you check out. |
| 0:36.0 | Now yesterday we talked about a really fun experiment that Jill did with some surprising results about organic aphid control and now we're switching but still |
| 0:45.6 | keeping that almost scientific methodology at play here you tested out three |
| 0:50.6 | different types of raised bed soil combos, Jill? |
| 0:54.0 | Yes, I did that last year. |
| 0:56.0 | Okay, cool, and could we describe maybe at the start, first of all, why did you decide to test it? |
| 1:01.0 | And then second of all, kind of like we did with yesterday's |
| 1:04.0 | a fit episode could we lay out the the structure of that test? Sure yeah the |
| 1:10.4 | main reason that I did this I've been gardening in raised beds my entire gardening |
| 1:15.3 | career, so seven years or so. But we've used native soil in those raised beds. We have a large property, my husband grates our |
| 1:24.3 | property sometimes and so I've had plenty of native soil to fill those raised beds |
| 1:28.9 | but having my podcast and having my blog a lot of people would ask questions about filling their raised beds because they didn't have native soil to go with and so I decided that I want to test some of these different combinations out to be able to share with people what experience I had had with some of these other combinations if you don't have native soil. |
| 1:54.1 | And so that was kind of the impetus behind it. |
| 1:56.2 | I had built a brand new raised bed. |
| 1:58.8 | I had three sections that were sectioned off. |
| 2:00.9 | They were three by six inch or three by six foot raised beds. I planted |
| 2:05.5 | Roma tomatoes and all of them and I was able to compare the growth of the Roma |
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