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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

When is Algae BAD For Your Garden?

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

This whole week has been singing the praises of algae...so let's look at the opposite side of the coin. When is it bad to have algae in the garden, and what can you do about it? Learn More: Soil Algae on Kickstarter Keep Growing, Kevin Follow Epic Gardening Everywhere: YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Twitter   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the show. Today we're going to talk about algae yet again, but we're talking about today

0:07.6

When might it be actually be bad for the garden? When are we gonna try to remove it or when are we going to try to remove it or when are we going to look for a

0:16.1

potentially a warning sign of hey you know what we've learned a lot about algae

0:20.0

We know it's it's present in the soil, but you know what I might just have a little bit too much in the garden right now and in this

0:26.2

episode which I think is very interesting we talk about a potential new method for covercropping

0:32.4

or adding nitrogen back to your soil without using a cover crop

0:36.3

and skipping plants altogether and I think you can guess what we'll be using

0:40.5

instead. So tune in this was a very interesting little segment, I think you'll really enjoy it.

0:46.5

Cool, well let's move on then. Let's talk about, so we've talked a lot actually about why it's, why algae not only is in the but why it's it's good that it is in the

0:55.1

soil right? Yeah, yeah. Let's talk a little bit about the the reverse case.

0:59.3

When could that potentially go too far? When is that actually not good or what should we be looking for?

1:05.0

You know, yeah, that's a great question and I've been doing a little bit of sloothing around for this.

1:10.0

You know, I don't know any when when algae is actually going to be really bad for your garden

1:16.7

If you if you over water and you don't want it there if it's unsightly or if it's competing for resources that you want to, you know, a target for a different plant,

1:26.0

then of course that's going to be bad because it's in competition for what you're doing.

1:29.5

But I think what you may want to do at this point if you're growing algae and not growing say your tomato or anything else you may want to adjust your physical

1:39.3

Conditions of the garden so algae is going to be to be there's you know hundreds of different

1:45.1

strains that are going to be available in your in your dirt and they're going to

1:49.2

grow whatever they can if you leave it wet enough.

1:52.5

So that might, that condition might be great

1:55.1

for a diatom, but not so good for a cucumber.

1:59.2

So you've got to be able to dial those bad things back in.

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