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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Improving Your Soil Over the Fall

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Norris is a 5th generation homesteader and loves to help people use organic methods to grow their own food. She’s the host of the Pioneering Today Podcast and you can find her website at https://melissaknorris.com/.

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0:00.0

What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast which is available for you to review on iTunes if you haven't yet and I know who you are so please go ahead and do that.

0:11.0

It actually helps way more than you think we are here again with

0:14.5

Melissa Norris she is a fifth generation homesteader and like myself she has a

0:20.2

passion for helping people use organic methods to grow their own food.

0:23.0

Extremely creative as you guys have learned if you've been listening this week,

0:26.0

great tips and recommendations and she has her own podcast.

0:29.0

It's called The Pioneering Today Podcast, which you can find in the podcast description and you can also go check

0:34.1

her website out at MelissaK Norris.com, also in the podcast description.

0:39.2

So, Melissa, we've given people some awesome recommendations of what to plants in fall as well as how to

0:44.7

extend their season, whether that be at the beginning and spring or at the end and fall.

0:50.3

Now what about things that we need to be doing to our most important asset in the

0:53.7

garden which would be our soil are there some things that we need to think about as

0:57.1

we do go into a bit slower period in the garden to make sure that our soil is set up

1:01.7

for the next year.

1:03.0

Yeah, there's actually quite a bit that you can do in fall.

1:05.6

And I think one of my favorite things about is a lot of the stuff that we do in fall.

1:09.0

Nature does the workforce over the winter, and I love gardening. but if I can find a way to have something be improved

1:16.2

and I just have to do very little work and nature can do the rest, I'm all about it.

1:20.6

So that's where a lot of my tips are going to come in for today. So the

1:24.8

first thing and I know this sounds pretty obvious is remove your old plants. So even

1:30.6

if they didn't have any noticeable signs of bacteria or fungus or

1:35.0

disease or anything like that, you want to make sure that you don't just let them die

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