Back to Eden Gardening

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Have you heard of the Back to Eden gardening method? If not, you should. This gardening technique will greatly improve your soil tilth and fertility over time. It promises a major reduction in tough weeds and the ability to grow almost everywhere. Water conservationists should rejoice, as this technique is great for drought conditions. But what exactly is the Back To Eden gardening method? Let’s break it down to a barebones layout of how it works and how to do your own. It does take time, but it will reduce your labor over future years and make gardening an enjoyable, easy task. Learn More: Back To Eden Gardening: Rich Soil Done Nature’s Way Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the podcast.
0:03.0	Today we're talking about a gardening method.
0:05.0	So this is a technique similar to something like the square foot
0:09.0	gardening method. It's a way of being in gardening.
0:11.0	And this would be the Back to Eden gardening method. So if you haven't heard of this method,
0:16.3	well you're going to, but also it's super interesting. It will greatly improve your soil
0:21.1	tilt and fertility over time and it makes some pretty big
0:24.4	promises. It promises a large reduction in weeding, a large reduction in water.
0:30.8	So water conservationists should rejoice.
0:32.7	Someone like me here in San Diego Zone 10B
0:35.0	should be, you know, doing backflips because this should be a method
0:38.8	that saves quite a bit of water.
0:41.1	So first of all, what is the Back to Eden gardening method? It was invented
0:45.6	created by Paul Gauthi. He is the creator and the way that he approaches this is he comes from a Christian background so his beliefs
0:54.6	are consistently mentioned in the documentary film there's a film about this
0:58.4	method by the way but it's those beliefs that sort of inspire him to garden as he does and that's sort of why he called it back to Eden going back to that biblical garden of Eden.
1:10.5	Now whether you are a religious person or not there's still quite a bit to learn from the method
1:16.0	So let's go ahead and dive right into it first of all just as a preface this is a long-term method. This isn't something like a planting technique or a
1:26.5	mulching technique per se. It does take quite a bit of time. And the first
1:31.4	thing you're going to want to do is select your supplies.
1:34.0	For Paul that's using wood chips. For other people it might be dry leaves.
1:38.0	It might be wheat, rice, or oat straw. A lot of people will also use grass clippings as well. But it's not as simple as putting the
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