What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. This is our final

episode so sad with Nicole Masters, the International Agrocologist who's been just

dropping some really, really helpful and complete knowledge on soil health, signals between plants, insects, and today we're talking about the signals we as gardeners are sending to

our plants in our garden as well as just weeds in general. How are we cultivating

weeds without actually knowing it? And this is really interesting. I'm I don't think I've ever

thought about it quite this way. So Nicole, do you mind sort of explaining what you mean by us sending

signals to weeds? First I'd like to just define what I mean by a weed because some people

everyone's got a different version and for me weeds are just an indicator plant so I get excited about you know plants that

that might be weeds and so different people see you know weed invasions

depending on what the different crops are whatever you're trying to grow. So for me, I'm just talking about

indicator plants as weeds. So what's really interesting is that plants will

germinate depending on different types of soil condition or

environmental conditions so you want to look at what is the condition that I'm

providing what are they trying to tell me is it I've got bear disturbed soil is

it that I've got low organic matter is it

Mineral imbalances microbial balances or what I call the safety valve weeds so I do like a whole day just on this topic. So it's trying to figure out what's most succinct for you, but it's looking at what is the signal that you're sending because that determines who germinates.

So if you are seeing, for instance, a lot of broadleaf weeds,

and so I'm thinking, what have you got?

You've probably got Doc, or what else have you got you got we do not plantain

fissles things like that just trying to think

Kevin what you might have you said you don't have any.

Hmm. Okay, so but I mean I don't the thing the thing with me is I get so few I

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