Hello everyone welcome back to another episode here on the epic gardening

podcast we're talking today about fertilizing specifically in containers it's a

question that is very confusing both to myself at times as well as beginner gardeners

because the way to think about fertilizing was kind of two of two ways, right? The first is the

traditional way and when I say traditional I mean common or commonplace. I don't

necessarily mean like the ancient recommended way and that would be using some kind of synthetic liquid

fertilizer and feeding your plants that way to give it a quick hit of nutrition.

This is what was recommended during many many decades worth of gardening knowledge, especially commercially,

but there is another way and that would be using more of an organic fertilizer.

The idea behind an organic fertilizer is you're feeding the soil and then the soil is feeding the plants.

But the idea behind what I just spoke about earlier is that you really truly are just feeding the plants there by giving it a bioavailable liquid and water soluble nutrient that the plants can just

take up right away.

They don't need it to go through a soil life breakdown process like the organic fertilizers do.

And so the thing about it is most organic fertilizers

also have fast releasing

components within them.

So it's not just like if you grow organically, everything is slow.

That's not really how it works.

There's a lot of different types of fertilizers available to you and ways to mobilize the nutrients within fertilizers.

So let's say you have some sort of manure-based soil amendment,

you can get those out a lot quicker than perhaps a bone meal, right?

So let's talk about some basics of container fertilizing.

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