Whether you are an edibles fanatic like myself or an orchid expert, like John, who

is our guest this week, John Clements, who is the director of gardens at San

Diego Botanic Garden, no watering is the fundamental practice, but I don't

think we've dived into too much, John, the actual qualities of water. I mean, if

I'm watering at my home, unless it's coming from my rainwater capture system, I'm

using the city tap water, and I'm really curious since you are quite

literally directing an entire Botanic Garden, you know, what what does

someone need to know about water quality? Well, as we all know, we can't survive

without water and certainly our plants can't survive without water. And water

is really the single biggest factor that affects raising plants. And so some

places in the country, they have fabulous water. I was just in central coast last

couple of weeks and from Los Angeles, Northward, they have a completely

different water supply than we do in San Diego. And I was in Carmel and the

water coming out of the shower was soft and wonderful. And I'm thinking, man,

this is like beautiful, pure water. And then I come to take a shower in San

Diego and it's full of dissolved solids. It's very hard. It's salty. It's

really not great water. And so the water you use on your plants will affect

the plant's growth. And, you know, I know you love the edible stuff. Well, my

entire backyard is everything. Edibles, you know, the front yard's one thing,

but the backyard is fruit trees and vegetable gardens. And I want to have

good water on these things. And so what you'll discover in San Diego is our

water is very salty. It comes from Colorado. It's really the western part of

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