Hey everyone, Kevin from Epic Gardening here.

We are continuing on with the best of weeks here on the podcast.

Hope you enjoy.

What's up everyone?

Welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast.

This is our final episode, so sad with Nicole Masters, the international agroecologist

who's been just dropping some really, really helpful and complete knowledge on soil health

signals between plants and 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 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 plants that might be weeds and so different people see 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 condition.

So you want to look at what is the condition that I'm providing?

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