What's up everyone? Welcome back to the podcast. This is Kevin from Epic Gardening.

Hope your season's going well. I'll tell you one thing. I planted for fall this year, of course, because it's fall right now,

but I live in San Diego in zone 10b, and we are currently experiencing 80 to 92-ish

degrees temperature. So I basically have failed at a lot of the stuff that I've put in the fall garden, especially

my brassica.

So my heading brassicaas like broccoli and kale, they have totally, or sorry broccoli and cauliflower,

they have totally failed.

The heat is much too high for them to form heads and they're just putting out leaves like crazy

which are getting eaten up by cabbage worms.

So I guess I'm feeding someone, but not myself.

Unfortunate, unfortunate, unfortunate.

Well, today we're going to talk about soilless growing mediums.

So what are some soilless growing mediums that you can use or maybe amend your

soil with? So let's go ahead and get into it. You can use these for hydroponics if you wish,

but you can also use these as good soil amendments

if your soil is lacking one of the qualities that one of these amendments has.

So first we're going to go with spagnum Pete Moss. So that is coming from

Pete Bogs almost exclusively in Canada these days. Technically it is not a

non-renewable resource. You can renew it. It just takes thousands of years, so in the span of a human lifetime may as well not be renewable.

But Canada is pretty good at managing the extraction of peat from their bogs and they say that they have enough

for thousands of years to come.

So let's get into it.

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