Yo, what is up everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. I am, whoa, it's hot here, I

I'll tell you that much, and today's podcast is about some heat some hot topics if you

will we're talking about solarizing soil solarization it's something that I don't think

too many people know about because typically, especially if you've

listened to the podcast in the past, you'll know that keeping what's going on under the soil alive is pretty important, right?

The Soil Food Web from that book Teaming with Microbes by Jeff Loeenfeld is one of my favorite

gardening books out there.

Just really stresses the importance of keeping healthy soil, keeping that soil alive

because what's alive is the complex network of organisms that are interplaying down there,

right, and helping your plants survive.

Now, there are, unfortunately sometimes too many bad things and not enough good things.

And if that's the case sometimes the only way out is to solarize your

soil. Now what that means is that you basically cook the soil.

So what you'll do is you will figure out,

let's say you have one bed.

This is really good for things like persistent weeds,

any soil-born diseases, root-not nematodes as well will really, really

be eradicated if you use this technique. But what you'll do is you will till all that land till that bed up remove any rocks remove any

clumps of plant material soak it hardcore soak it until it's about 70% saturated at least two feet down and then put clear

plastic over the top because what you're going to do is basically create a mini

greenhouse and cook that soil.

But it needs to be six to eight weeks.

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