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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

The CarbonNitrogen Ratio

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The carbon to nitrogen ratio is crucial, but confusing for many gardeners. Join Kevin and Tony as they discuss how to balance out these components in your compost. Connect With Tony O'Neill: Tony O’Neill is the founder of Simplify Gardening, a blog, YouTube channel, and the author of the upcoming book Composting Masterclass: Feed The Soil Not Your Plants. Buy this book on:   Amazon UK Bookstore US Bookstore AUS Bookstore Simplify Gardening YouTube   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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you wanted to learn about composting this year, then I think this week of episodes

0:17.7

is going to be really exciting for you.

0:19.4

We have my friend Tony O'Neill on the podcast.

0:22.3

He's the founder of what was once called UK Here We Grow, and that's how we met.

0:26.7

Now it is called Simplify Gardening, which is a blog, a YouTube channel, and Tony's

0:30.8

also the author of an upcoming book called Composing Masterclass, Feed the Soil, Not Your

0:36.5

Plants.

0:37.5

It's great to have you on Tony.

0:38.5

I feel like it's long overdue.

0:39.5

Yeah, I think so too, Kevin.

0:41.3

Yeah, been a long time.

0:42.5

I think we probably met, oh, at least three years ago, right?

0:46.2

Yeah, probably longer than that.

0:48.4

Probably longer, yeah, because at that time, obviously, we can tell what the accent you're

0:51.9

from the UK.

0:53.5

The company was called a totally different name, and then you've now re-randed it to

0:57.0

Simplify Gardening.

0:58.0

Yeah, and it's been rebranded for three years, so yeah, it's definitely longer than that,

1:01.3

yeah.

1:02.3

Okay, then yeah, we've known each other probably since the beginning of our days and online

1:06.8

gardening, I suppose.

1:08.0

Yeah, yeah.

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