What's up everyone?

What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we are joined for our

final episode with Paul, the owner of A leaky Gardens. They are a local San Diego soil company.

They create really high quality soils that support a regenerative no-till style of gardening.

And that's what we're talking about in today's show.

The No-Till, no no dig style movement has really been gaining

popularity. You know, people like Charles Doubting, who I was fortunate enough to go over and

tour his garden. You know, people like Paul, there's so many people that are doing a flavor, let's call it that, of this style of gardening.

And so, Paul, I thought today we could talk and kind of put a button on a lot of the topics we've we've

dived into. You know why should a gardener consider this method over whatever they're doing right

now? Yeah you know a great question. Most people that have made the

switch to no-till methods of growing, I've done a fair amount of soul searching. They've had, you know,

their ups and downs in gardening and, you know, it seems fairly consistent as, is when growers switch to a no-till method, life gets a bit easier. Now, when I say that in larger scale agriculture,

when you eliminate or reduce tilling events,

you're saving money on labor, on fuel, on farm equipment.

You can make a list of time and money saving activities.

And so on a small scale, whether you're growing cannabis or you're growing lettuce.

If you're growing with no-till methods, it's a fairly simple approach.

No-till utilizes some ground cover, some cover crops, companion crops, or just crops that provide some sort of residue on that soil to feed the soil microorganisms.

Let's say if you're growing cannabis that's what where I come from.

When you defoliate and manage your canopy, it's so simple you do is just let the leaves that you cut down drop to that soil floor and over time the leaves dry out decomposed and are consumed by the soil biology.

Now if you're growing vegetables in a raised bed, it's similar. You use a mulch layer to protect the top layer of topsoil and then, you know, you're not really worried about a messy garden.

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