Hello welcome back to today's episode of the epic gardening

podcast we are continuing with yesterday's theme and looking at some

indicators when you're out in your garden, observing it, specifically your soil, what is going on in that

soil that might be indicative of a problem that you can correct so you can have better

harvests and a more successful garden.

So let's continue on.

We have five more indicators for you today.

And this next one is going to be more of a maintenance tip.

This is when you have volunteers in the garden. So let's say you have, I don't know, a tomato plant that came back up after you rotated it out and you've now planted let's say beans in that bed.

Oftentimes what you will want to do there is just pull that volunteer,

maybe pull and transplant, but just it's a good idea in general to give your crops a little bit of a rotation.

Sometimes that helps avoid disease, you know, if there's let's say a particular disease that

really affects one plant, let's say a powdery mildew, just put something in that bed that's not as susceptible

to powdery mildew, right?

So if you do see a volunteer show up, then go ahead and pull that and move it out.

But there's also another reason that you might want to rotate and

that's because different plants use different amounts of all the different

nutrition within the soil, all the nutrients, the macro micro trace

nutrients. Sometimes it's good to rotate to balance that out,

or perhaps throw something like a legume in there,

a nitrogen fixer to just amend that soil

as well as get a nice little harvest.

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