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Pioneering Today

How to Improve Soil Health- the single BIGGEST factor on garden success

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9931 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Almost all of your garden success comes back to the health of your soil and learning how to improve soil health is the answer to virtually every gardening issue you have. Plants not actually producing food, stunted growth, lots of green growth but your carrot or beet is super tiny, blossom end rot, yellowing leaves, all signs of poor or imbalanced soil health. Get blog post/resources at https://melissaknorris.com/209 and access our full detailed soil amendment guide as a pre-order bonus for the Family Garden Plan, get all the details here https://familygardenplan.com

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0:00.0

If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them,

0:06.4

I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make

0:16.2

sure that you are registered and signed up for our herbal summer series. This is completely free, though you definitely could charge for it because it is

0:28.2

packed with information. Once you sign up starting in August, every week you are going to get an email from me going over my top 10 favorite herbs.

0:40.0

Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb,

0:47.8

but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.

0:56.9

We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.

1:02.1

So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by

1:06.2

that point in your medicine cabinet my favorite top 10 herbs to always have at the ready. Go to Melissa K Norris.com forward slash

1:18.2

summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better.

1:25.2

You are listening to episode number 209 of the pioneering today podcast.

1:37.2

I'm your host, Melissa Kay Norris, and this is where we dive into everything living homegrown and handmade. Modern homesteading to raise, preserve, and

1:42.3

cook your own organic food no matter where you live.

1:47.0

In today's episode, we are going to be talking about the most important thing when it comes to the success of your

1:58.0

garden and the health of your plants and usually not, but most of the time, this is the reason that people have subpar

2:10.1

harvest and or issues with their plants.

2:13.6

And we are talking about the base and backbone of your garden and that is your

2:19.2

soil help.

2:20.4

Now I know in quite a few previous episodes we have talked about soil health before

2:25.6

ways to organically increase it and different things to do but the reason I want to

2:30.9

circle back around to it today and talk about it is one because it really is that important.

2:38.4

And I want to give you a few more tactical tips that you can do right now in the fall. So if you are listening to this

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