What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. So I'm here again with

Dr. Mark Meriwether Vordobrugan. Again he's the creator of Foraging Texas.

He's the author of Idiot's Guide Foraging, and in his normal life, if you want to call it that, he is a formulation chemist for consumer products like Workman's friend.

So today we are almost doing a bit of a call back to another week on the

podcast a couple months ago with Nicole Masters, the Regenerative Agriculturalist.

And so what we were talking about in that episode is we're going

to expand on just a little bit in this episode and that would be what can

weeds tell you about your soil?, Dr Mark, what is, what could weeds possibly tell us? I know many of us probably, especially beginner gardeners, were coming out into the garden and we see a weed and we just pull it we don't think about what

it actually means that that weed in that way was in that location thriving

under these conditions right? Absolutely correct.

A lot of gardeners, they talk to their plants as they're walking through the gardens,

they're whispering words of encouragement and so forth,

but they never stop and listen to see what their garden is telling them.

And if you think about it, talking,

it's just a transfer of information.

Any sort of communication is the transfer

of information from one entity to another and weeds are how the

garden talks to you. Like you said a lot of people don't give much thought into

weeds they just assume a weed pops up

that any weed can grow anywhere,

and that's completely wrong.

Now true, there are things like dandelions that,

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