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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

What Are You Growing - How to assess quality 2021

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Kevin from Epic Gardening here.

0:15.6

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

0:20.2

Hope you enjoy.

0:23.3

What's going on everyone?

0:24.3

Welcome back to the podcast, Kevin here from Epic Gardening.

0:28.0

I'm here with Nicole Masters.

0:30.0

She is the international agro-ecologist and we are going to be talking today.

0:34.1

We've talked a lot about my chrysal fungi.

0:36.1

We've talked about protozoa, about nematodes, about the soil, food web in general, and

0:40.6

kind of just what's going on beneath the soil.

0:43.5

So today we're going to talk about how to know what's going on in your soil, what is growing

0:49.8

down below.

0:50.8

And so Nicole, I think this is a really good one because it brings it back down to, hey,

0:55.7

how do I use this knowledge in my garden?

0:58.3

So how does someone even begin to tackle this problem?

1:04.8

So really the whole process starts, but really turning on your eyes and your observations.

1:10.9

And so a lot of gardeners are just extraordinary at above ground, what plants are they growing,

1:18.0

the health of those plants, they blow me out of the water with their practical skills,

1:23.5

not enough for digging underneath the soil to have a look at what's happening around

1:27.1

the plant roots and what's happening with plant health.

1:30.1

And so if we really want to figure out what's happening above ground, we have to dig below

1:34.8

ground.

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