N-P-K Are NOT The ONLY Macro Nutrients Plants Need

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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NPK, the three macronutrients a plant needs...or are they? Charles Malki shares his six macronutrients that a plant needs in today’s show. Connect With Charles Malki Charles Malki is the author of Saving The World With The Home Garden: Improve Our Planet's Health With Natural Gardening Lessons. He has a degree in biology, and is the plant expert for IV Organics, a gardening product company and also has a fantastic YT channel of the same name. Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is up everyone?
0:04.0	What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are joined for our final
0:18.9	episode for now with Charles Malki, the author of Saving the World with the Home Garden,
0:23.4	improve our planet's health with natural gardening lessons.
0:26.8	Charles has a degree in biology and is also the Plant Expert for IV Organics,
0:31.2	which is a gardening product company and he has a
0:34.3	YouTube channel you do a lot of things Charles I just have to say that right out of the
0:38.2	game so we're talking today about MPK, but you have mentioned actually earlier on in this week of
0:46.8	episodes that you say that there are three other macro nutrients that plants need, right?
0:52.0	Absolutely, thanks Kevin, an epic gardening pot. macro nutrients that plants need, right?
0:52.7	Absolutely, thanks Kevin and Epic Gardening Podcast for having me and absolutely positively,
0:57.8	yes, like it has been troubling me for many years that I would be listening to these lectures and
1:06.0	and these so-called plan experts, which I again, you know, respect and admire and so forth,
1:12.0	but when they get up there and they basically share you know plants only have
1:17.0	three nutrients that they need and if you just simply Google or you can research if you don't like the word Google but if you
1:25.2	research what are the plant macro nutrients it's not just three and in fact it's
1:30.6	six and ivory organic came up with a product called Six Macros.
1:35.0	It also goes under its all-purpose fertilizer as well.
1:38.0	And what Ivory Agistics offer
1:42.2	is all of the macroronutrients plants need in one.
1:46.0	And we are taught for those of us that have some experience in gardening that plants have
1:51.7	NPK, which are the elements that represent n for
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