The Benefits of Soil Blocking

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Soil blocking is a time-honored way of starting a LOT of seeds effectively. Learn how from Briana Bosch in today’s show. Connect With Briana Bosch: Briana Bosch is the owner of Blossom and Branch Farm, where she field-grows flowers as well as works to regenerate the wooded section of her property. Blossom and Branch Farm Facebook Instagram Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You all know that I like to start most of my seeds in trays and various different types
0:18.6	of trays.
0:19.6	Of course we have our Epic 6 and Epic 4 cell trays that we have in our store and there
0:24.0	is a way to start seeds that actually doesn't require trays at all and that would be
0:28.2	a soil blocking.
0:29.2	I first learned about this maybe five years ago from my friend Steven, many of you may
0:34.7	have remembered some of our stuff that we did with him on the YouTube show.
0:38.4	But today we have Brianna Boshon from Blossom and Branch Farm and honestly this is, I believe
0:42.8	how we first started talking.
0:43.8	Brianna was talking about starting seeds, right?
0:45.8	Yeah, I can't remember what it was that I commented on but it's something about trays
0:49.5	and I don't know.
0:52.5	Yeah, something about trays versus no trays I think I think you asked if I had ever tried
0:56.8	soil blocking.
0:57.8	Typically, I ask everyone that I would meet people in a store and I would have you ever
1:01.0	tried this?
1:02.0	Like you're writing an MLM or something like that?
1:05.0	It is, it's very MLM like I'm like, but you can change your life.
1:09.0	Can you imagine how many seeds you can grow from this one seed?
1:11.9	Yeah.
1:12.9	Anyways, so I mean I will say I have tried it in a sense of I've physically done the task
1:18.2	but not at my own house.
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