What's up everyone? Welcome back to the show. First of all, before we get into this episode, I do apologize for some of the audio quality. There were some recording issues on this one. So it's not too too bad, but it's a little more grainy than I would have liked so I apologize about that but it should still be a good episode we're going in depth on the soil mix that I

created with Bill and Garden Maker so it's the epic soil starter Mix if you haven't heard me talk about it. And, you know, this isn't something

to push that mix on you, but it is an interesting episode as far as how we went through the process.

We already talked yesterday about how you make your own, right?

How would you construct your own mix?

And then here's a mix we've constructed.

And so we're gonna talk about the different weightings

and the different ratios of ingredients

and why we chose them in that ratio and what we think that's going to do for your garden or

for my garden because again I'm using this all the time right now especially as spring has sprung and so let's go

ahead and get into it with Bill. Let's move on then to a quick sort of rapid fire breakdown of what's in the mix we created. I think it'd be

cool if we just kind of ran down the list and talked about maybe the weddings and why we chose what we chose. I know a couple of them. Well let's in the world of

business I let's let's start at that 30,000 foot level and talk about the key strategy.

And the key strategy for us was that as I remembered and please correct me is that we

wanted a more general product that would work across a fair amount of areas

and one of the big overarching views we wanted to achieve was diversity

because when we're feeding 25,000 species in a soil system, we kind of want a

diversity of things to go in the ground. So in your mix, we paid a lot of

attention to make sure we had a variety of ways to solve nutritional problems

to give what I would view is the maximum opportunity for populations to stimulate and to grow and to hopefully build into the balance.

So the first two major ingredients were alfalfa and wheat mids.

We were not after a particularly super high number in nitrogen that has challenges sometimes and so we chose the

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