What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the show. Today we're talking about healing your soil. How do you do it? This question comes from my friend Isaac. How you doing Isaac?

Has been a while since I've got a question from

Isaac happy to answer this one and it's one that I've been thinking about because

I do have some less than perfect soil in my front yard right now because I've discovered that it's a little heavier in

clay than I would have liked, especially the lower levels of it and now that I'm growing

some root crops, that clay is actually a real problem.

So how do we fix soil that may not be perfect?

Well, the first sort of meta answer is going to be,

you actually do have to know in some capacity what's wrong with it is it a texture issue

Is it a nutrient issue is it a specific nutrient deficiency? But we're going to talk about building soil generally speaking.

So one thing that I've heard a lot about from a couple of my Australian gardener friends

is their dependence on livestock manure.

They actually use manure over compost.

So what they do is they will take any sort of manure that is well

rotted and they will apply it and what they'll do is they'll allow about three months between application of manure and

harvest of any root crop or leafy vegetable and that's to guard against contamination of potential pathogens, etc.

But because nutrients from manure are so readily available,

they often can leach out of the soil into groundwater, into streams, and then they actually do become pollutants.

So you don't want to go balls to the wall on just simply doing manure.

So fresh manure, you can use.

You can actually use it.

So like, but you just want to use it on something like maybe

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