Quick tip for you guys today. More is oftentimes not better and I've had a problem

with this in my garden because it's epic gardening guys we try to do more here I try to do as much as I can I try to try as many methods as I can and this particular

tip is about moderation.

It's about calming down a little bit,

especially when it comes to over-loving

and over-caring for our plants.

And let's hone in on one of them.

This would be fertilizing. A lot of us think that, you know, unless we're actively doing something to our plants, then we're failing them. And it's simply not true. You need to get the soil right in the first place

you can add some organic amendments as we've talked about earlier this week and

really many times on this podcast and from there you need to calm down and let things play out.

You know unless you start seeing a really obvious nutrient deficiency issue cropping up

then don't worry about fertilizing even more.

What's that what that's going to do is either it's just going to throw off the

balance in the soil or you're going to throw off the actual growth of the plant by supplementing it with too much

nitrogen or the wrong stuff at the wrong time or really just kind of throwing off the entire balance of not only

the plant but the ecosystem that that plant is living within.

And you know it's funny because you see this show up in the house plant world too with people

who overwater their plants which is probably the number one cause of death and it is a symptom of human activity.

We often think that if we're not acting then we are doing something incorrect.

But a lot of the times the correct thing to do in the garden is nothing. It's to look at it, to observe it to make sure

that nothing is falling out of balance, out of whack, and make an adjustment if it is, but if it's not, then just let it be.

Because remember, our plants are growing themselves.

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