What's going on everyone?

What's going on everyone?

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Charles Malky is back again.

He is the author of saving the world with the home garden, improve our planet's health with natural gardening lessons.

Also a degree in biology, plant expert for IV organics, which we've been talking about quite a bit

here on the show.

Now yesterday we talked about feeding the soil, not your plants, makes total sense,

especially if you've delved into the science and the practicality behind that. But now Charles,

you're saying that the perfect soil is 95 to 99% native learn why.

And when I hear that one of the things that I would be thinking of if I was trying to tear that apart would be saying you know a lot of the times we build our own soils for a raised bed or a container and a lot of the times that isn't native and so I'd love to know where your head is at with this one.

Absolutely. Thank you again, Kevin and Epic Gardening Podcast for having me. And to answer your

question, and something I've been teaching now for several years is something called like a new era planting method.

I don't know if you remember like with older labels and it's actually still on a lot of planting labels and specifically like for trees. Doesn't necessarily have to be free. of labels come with the idea that once you prepare a whole, a planting hole for this plant,

they're supposed to take the native soil that you've just excavated out of that hole

and mix it with 50% compost before backfilling that

product back into the hole.

And what happens when you do that, which is mixing native with compost and compost just to let you know will

eventually break down in a matter of weeks to just a few months into like

practically dust and disappear.

It's basically all organics,

whether it started as leaf litter or bark or whatever it is,

but when you're mixing it into the soil

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