How Plants Feed the Soil
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
“Feed your soil, not your plants” is an often-repeated mantra, and for good reason. But do plants feed soil as well? Turns out the answer is yes, as Paul from Aliki Gardens explains in today’s show.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's up? |
| 0:04.0 | What's up? |
| 0:05.0 | What's |
| 0:08.0 | What's up? |
| 0:10.0 | What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Thanks so much for |
| 0:17.4 | hanging out with us. I hope you're having a good morning evening whenever |
| 0:20.1 | you're listening to this podcast. we're joined again by Paul. |
| 0:23.5 | He's the owner of Alyke Gardens. |
| 0:25.6 | They're a local San Diego Soil Company that really focus on making soil mixes |
| 0:29.9 | that support a no-tiller regenerative agriculture style to gardening and which is you know you guys who listen to the |
| 0:36.2 | podcast know I've evolved in my gardening methods and I'm certainly moving myself much more over to that in my soil garden, my raised bed front yard. |
| 0:44.8 | And so it's just a great topic for me personally and hopefully for you guys as well listening. |
| 0:49.3 | So today we're talking with Paul about how plants feed the soil, which I think is an interesting |
| 0:55.7 | twist on some of the common ways of thinking. |
| 0:59.0 | And Paul, I would love to hear from you, first of all, you know, how do plants feed the soil we don't really |
| 1:04.9 | think of it them in that manner so I'd love to have a little primary from you on |
| 1:09.1 | that great yeah I'm excited to talk about that. That's the concept that plants feed the soil. |
| 1:16.0 | It's really interesting because, like you said, yourself, |
| 1:20.0 | most of us have come from hydroponic start and so to see plants grow without the use of any fertilizer and rely on the soil biology. |
| 1:31.4 | It's fascinating to see how much healthier the plant is when you just leave it to its own devices and maybe scared in the right direction with some minor amendments. |
| 1:43.7 | Now, how do plants feed the soil? |
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