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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

John Kohler's Favorite Soil Amendments

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Soil amendments are a hot topic, and a contested one at times. John has a lot of opinions on this as well and drops some serious knowledge about which he finds to be most effective. Learn More: Growing Your Greens OKRaw Discount Juicers Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back. Today we are talking with

0:03.4

junk holder from growing your greens and he's going to share some of his

0:05.9

favorite soil amendments. I actually remember one of the maybe second or third

0:10.5

videos I ever watched on John's YouTube channel which is just

0:12.9

growing your greens type that into YouTube or look at the podcast description was

0:16.7

about his love for rock dust and that's kind of what got me into even thinking about soil amendments, I guess in the past really early on in my gardening life,

0:27.0

I just didn't really know that much about soil.

0:29.0

And I know if you've listened to the podcast, you know by now, I at least know a little bit more. I've been really studying the

0:34.6

soil food web and all these sorts of interactions that go on as well as the

0:38.0

amendments that you might put into your soil to fix some of the problems that your

0:41.3

native soil might have.

0:42.6

So with that being said, I'm going to let John come in and share some of his favorite

0:46.8

soil amendments and why he likes them so much.

0:50.2

All right, this is John Kohlle with Growing Your. Come and today I'll be talking about soil amendments for you guys and some of my favorite soil amendments, right?

0:57.3

There's so many different things you could add to your soil, you know, some are probably not needed and

1:01.8

some are super critical,

1:03.0

super important, and unfortunately not talked about enough.

1:06.8

Of course, top my list, compost.

1:09.6

Oh my God, compost is the king and should be added but not all compost are created equal right

1:16.5

most people put a bacterial dominated compost it's made with a you know a heat pile

1:20.3

or whether that's from your local municipality that's basically taking green bins and

1:24.4

composting that down. Most compost have lots of bacterial matter, but little or no or actually

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