327 - Helen Atthowe - Fall Cover Crops for Different Soil Types

The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

Jill McSheehy

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey, you guys and welcome back to the podcast. A lot of you have told me over this past year and
0:05.5	other years that working on your soil fertility is something that you really want to do more of.
0:12.0	And cover crops is a great way to do that, especially as we head into the fall. So today we're
0:17.2	going to be talking with a guest who knows a whole lot about cover crops and
0:22.0	about soil fertility and management, not only from her educational experience, but also from
0:28.3	decades' worth of trials in her own garden.
0:32.1	It's very, very fascinating.
0:34.1	We're going to be talking to Helen Atow.
0:36.7	She's the author of The Ecological Farm, a minimalist, no-till, no spray, selective weeding, grow your own fertilizer system for organic agriculture. Before we bring her on today, though, I'm going to bring on with you my assistant, Sarah. You heard from her a few episodes ago where we did the
0:55.5	Q&As. Sarah's here with me right now and then she'll come back at the end. And the reason I'm
1:01.1	bringing her on right now, hey Sarah, is because Sarah's the one who read the book and said,
1:06.3	Hey, Jill, you need to have her on the podcast because she's got some great things to say. So Sarah,
1:11.1	just tell us a little bit about what attracted to you to what Helen said in her book.
1:16.8	Yeah. Hey, Jill. And hey everybody. So I really like this book because I feel like that it not only
1:23.4	has a lot of information for beginning gardeners, but I feel like it also has a lot of information for beginning gardeners, but I feel like it also has a lot of
1:28.9	information for advanced gardeners. The beginning of this book is definitely more of that advanced
1:35.4	level cover crop soil fertility knowledge type of thing. And if you're really into that,
1:41.4	this would be a great read for you, especially in the beginning of that book.
1:45.2	The back part of the book is more of a little bit of, I don't want to say elementary, but just that basic knowledge.
1:53.0	But then how does that tie into your soil fertility?
1:56.4	So it's a really great read for a lot of different people.
2:03.6	And I think that everyone can learn something from this book.
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