In today's Q&A, I'm going to answer a question I received from one of my members of my online

course Dream to Garden. And it's one that I'm going to attempt to answer because, to be honest with you,

it's one I'm still asking myself. And it's an area that I'm evolving as a gardener as well.

But I wanted to just give my thoughts in response to this question to give you an idea

kind of where my head is and where my head has been the last eight plus years in gardening.

So the question is this.

An area that I just don't have my head wrapped around is fertilizing.

When, what, how much frequency.

And then she goes on to ask about if there was any kind of resource in my online course,

Dream to Garden, about commonly grown crops and their fertilizing needs from seed to harvest.

Well, I don't have anything like that in the course right now,

but it's definitely something I'm considering because it is something that I've been asked

about quite a bit. And the reason why this is a little bit tougher of a question to answer is because

I think that I went into gardening as a beginning gardener thinking that part of gardening was

figuring out the right way to fertilize because that's kind of the conventional

mindset even though I didn't pay much attention growing up to gardening I knew that that's what my

mom did was fertilized and that's what everybody I knew did you planted your crops you fertilized

you fed them like you feed a child right but as I have continued gardening and especially gardening in an organic way, I have found

the need to fertilize less and less necessary, the healthier that the soil is that I plant into in the

first place. In fact, when I'm starting a brand new raised bed now, my typical go-to soil blend is a blend of compost top soil like if I

have native soil or if I get some hauled in or whatever but compost is a huge component of that

and in those new raised beds I haven't fertilized at all, and they've done remarkably well.

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