Feeding Your Soil for Long-Lasting Garden Results
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
We’ve talked about soil quite a bit on the podcast, but another refresher on the importance of feeding soil (not plants) is always warranted, and Charles Malki puts it eloquently in today’s show.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | Kevin here from Epic Gardening. Charles Malki is back on the |
| 0:17.9 | podcast. He's the author of Saving the World with the Home Garden and has a degree in biology and is the plant expert for Ivy |
| 0:24.5 | organics which is a gardening product company that I think you should |
| 0:27.7 | definitely check out and make some great stuff. So Charles yesterday we talked |
| 0:31.5 | about kind of rethinking our approach to the role of pests in an organic garden. |
| 0:37.0 | And next we get to probably one of the more fundamental concepts, and this would be the idea of feeding our soil, building our soil versus |
| 0:45.8 | fertilizing our plants and almost just the way you think about that can change how your garden |
| 0:50.6 | ends up performing for you right? |
| 0:52.3 | Absolutely and Kevin thank you for having me an epic gardening podcast for this opportunity. |
| 0:58.0 | And in answer your question in regards to feeding us, absolutely positively yes. |
| 1:02.0 | So why is that, why is that? feeding your soil absolutely positively yes. |
| 1:03.9 | So why is that the distinction? |
| 1:06.3 | I know the answer but you know for the audience and just for extolling the benefits. |
| 1:10.8 | Why do we feed our soil? |
| 1:11.8 | Why do we not feed our plants? So hopefully I can explain this in a the dichotomy in the two different like logic and two different ways of farming |
| 1:24.3 | that's happening across the country and unfortunately organic is the |
| 1:27.3 | smaller part of the overall you know farming and agriculture that's happening across the country |
| 1:33.7 | including with the backyard gardener and just by looking at what's available on |
| 1:37.7 | garden shelves across the country there's a lot of synthetic products available and a lot of people are reaching for those over the organic |
| 1:46.0 | alternatives. |
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