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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Common Fertilizer Amendments

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Connect With Mike Chang: Mike Chang is the in-house agronomist for Grower’s House, with history in the tomato, cucumber, and cannabis industry. https://growershouse.com/ https://ventanaplant.science/ https://cannacribs.org/ Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design.   Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast, Kevin Espiritu here.

0:18.9

We are joined again by Mike Chang, in-house agronomist for Growers House, huge hydroponic

0:23.6

retailer.

0:24.6

You know, you guys have been listening to the week, it's been a fantastic week, Mike.

0:28.9

We are rounding it out with, dare I say, potentially, a slightly simpler topic and talking

0:34.7

about some common fertilizer amendments.

0:37.8

And maybe let's shift it over more towards the soil growers today and talk about, you know,

0:42.7

some of the things that they should be keeping in mind when it comes to adding these fertilizers

0:48.4

to their garden.

0:49.7

Yeah, absolutely.

0:52.0

You know, as far as fertilizing, I like how you brought it up, it should be simple.

0:58.0

Things should be simple when it comes to fertilizing.

1:00.1

We've been doing it for thousands of years, we don't need crazy technology to fertilize

1:04.4

our gardens.

1:05.4

We know what the plants need at this point.

1:07.6

So, you know, basic things in your garden like gypsum, lime, humates, just adding carbon

1:15.1

and nitrogen at the right balance is going to be super key.

1:19.4

Organic meals, I think, are one of the best tools as far as home gardening organic gardening.

1:25.2

It's all of it, most of it is slow release, I should say, but it's slow release that

1:31.8

improves the just ecology of your soil too.

1:34.9

It's not a, not an inert fertilizer that just provides a single element or a single elemental

1:39.8

molecule.

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