Tips for Soil Healthy Gardening

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Whether you have healthy soil or you need to do some remediation, it’s important to implement proper habits into your garden routine to ensure that you stay safe and healthy. Connect With Anna Paltseva: Dr. Anna Paltseva, Endowed Assistant Professor, is an international urban soil scientist at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL), School of Geosciences. Her expertise is in urban soil contamination and remediation of urban gardens. She helps people to determine soil heavy metals, their potential impact on human health, and to find the best ways to improve soil quality in urban gardens. In 2021 she established the Delta Urban Soils Laboratory at ULL to provide soil testing services and informal education to communities, small production farmers, and gardeners in Louisiana and beyond. Instagram YouTube Website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% 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	We've learned a lot about soil, soil remediation, soil testing, heavy metals and soils this
0:18.4	week with Dr. Anna Palsava, but what about things you can do proactively to make sure that
0:26.2	your soil is healthy going forward, perhaps after remediation or maybe you're lucky and
0:30.3	you don't have any contamination, you just want to make sure it stays that way.
0:33.8	What are some things, Anna, that we can do just as good preventative measures?
0:39.1	That's a great question.
0:41.1	I think you should definitely want to prevent yourself by not trekking soil into your home
0:48.6	with garden tools or your shoes or your clothes.
0:52.5	Make sure you take this clothes off before you come in and it doesn't spread dust in the
0:57.2	house.
0:58.6	If you have children, watch them.
1:01.1	Make sure they don't eat if the soil is contaminated, they should not eat it.
1:05.6	It's great for kids to be exposed to in the environment and consume some soil.
1:09.8	If it's clean, it's healthy for them.
1:13.6	Make sure they wash their hands and do not lick their fingers in the garden if the soil
1:18.8	is contaminated.
1:21.2	What is also important in terms of management of the garden is that one we said we can
1:26.6	have raised beds, we can add organic compost or mulchers.
1:31.4	You can also make your garden more not only nutrient available but also less toxic when
1:40.8	you have your pH of the soil close to neutral.
1:45.0	Not less acidic pH like 6 to 7 is beneficial for availability of nutrients.
1:51.4	Most of plants like growing in this environment but what is also interesting that metals are
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