GREEN Organic Garden Podcast14 Des 2019

304. The Organic Gardener Soil Food Web Expert Jeff Lowenfels | What would Greta Do? |

Jeff Lowenfels author of the Teaming With Microbes Soil Trilogy shares his system for creating healthy organic ecosystems and how we can all work to save the world if we just answer the question What would Greta think?

If you wondered why we changed the name to the GREEN Organic Gardener Podcast there will be no doubt when you finish with this amazing episode. Get ready for Jeff to drop Golden Seeds Galore!

JEFF LOWENFELS "LORD OF THE ROOTS" AUTHOR OF THE SOIL TRIOLOGY:

Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web

Teaming with Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition

and

TEAMING WITH FUNGIThe Organic Grower’s Guide to MycorrhizaeAND NOW HIS NEW BOOK:

DIY Autoflowering Cannabis: An Easy Way to Grow Your Own

Tell us a little about yourself.

I was a lawyer, I worked for a fortune 500 company

always been a gardener

Tell me about your first gardening experience?

my father had to take over a family

8 acres

frustrated farmers

all the magazines

JI Rodale

came over to the house for dinner

I must have been about 10-11

How did you learn how to garden organically?

My first memories are being pushed around in a wheel barrow by my father in the garden

The first thing I planted was a wedding cake strawberry planter

Im in Anchorage Alaska, the longest running garden columnist

My new book is on a brand new kind of cannabis

It will be the next tomato plant

remember when the snap peas came out

everybody had to grow them

still growing them today

has no photo period

same size as a tomato
produces from seed to harvest
just like a tomato plant
small plant

one of the things I love about the books is the diagram in the back with the plant diagram, leaves

plant leaves

nitrogen deficiency

if you don’t know what the photoperiod thing is

cannabis has to have 12 hours day 12 hours night

they require

12 hours + one minute

poinsettias

cactus

triggered by length of light

If you take a christmas cactus and leave it in a situation where it gets more daylight then darkness it won’t bloom no matter what.

A Russian guy was...

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