Hello everyone. Welcome back to the show. Today we have a special episode. I'm going to talk a little bit about this fertilizer blend that I've partnered with Garden Maker on.

And so if that's not interesting to you, all good.

Feel free to skip ahead to tomorrow's episode.

But you know what? I thought it would be interesting because here is the reason I created it.

Let's talk about that in the first place. I do a lot of

raised bed gardening and I know a lot of you do a lot of raised bed gardening as well

and one of the things that I like to do is keep gardening cheap.

So what that means for me is I'll construct a simple raised bed or I'll invest in some really

high quality raised beds that I know will last a lifetime, which might not be cheap at the outset, but over the course of my life,

of course that price will go down over the years.

Now, when it comes to the soil, again, if you're filling in new soil and you're not working with improved soil that you already have in your yard, well, it can be very expensive to get that quote unquote perfect blend right out of the gate, especially if you're building somewhat high-raised

beds because then that volume goes up. So what I wanted to do is say, you know what

for a lot of these beginner gardeners and for myself, how do I supercharge a relatively basic

raised bed mix and when I'm talking about a basic raised bed mix I'm talking about

something as simple as maybe two-thirds topsoil screened, of course it has to be screened,

and one-third screened compost that you can just get from somewhere in your local environment.

Maybe you're a municipal source,

maybe a nonprofit somewhere around you.

There's a lot of different places

you can get your compost, maybe from your own yard.

But even that mix, of course you can grow pretty well in that

mix, but it might be deficient in nitrogen, might be deficient in some micronutrients that a

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