I took a week long seminar with her about 10 years ago. Every lecture was as mind blowing as this one. The highlight of the seminar, however, was using the microscopes we were required to have, and seeing those fascinating creatures she talks about. This video shows that today she is even sharper and more humorous than she was ten years ago. My suspicion is that she drinks compost tea.
I am a science educator and I aspire to be as engaging as Dr. Ingram. I came here to learn how to improve my garden, and I'm leaving inspired to be a better teacher to my students
This is something you would’ve had to hear about from a friend or on the radio, then have to drive 2-4 hours just to watch it in person with a notepad and paper 📝
I am currently a university student and I tell myself this everyday: I can literally learn anything because I have the internet. I love this content and can't wait to continue expanding my knowledge! I wish the best to you all!
@@ScottMason-ss8wwlike my med school professors would say and we found out sure enough.....don't miss lectures..."a good lecture comes to you courtesy of hundreds of books read by the presenter."
Reading information on Dr. Ingham's ideas, or hearing them distilled by other commentators, you forget what a clear and compelling speaker she is. How great would it be to attend her classes!
When you think you're versed in a subject, like gardening - at it for 56 years - and along comes Elaine Ingham informing you that you must live a whole nother life to catch up. Years ago she taught me to feed my 'soil pets' instead of feeding my plants.
She's great at putting things in perspective. It's really very basic, and about understanding the fundamentals. So many people over complicate things, that it becomes confusing for new farmers.
I’ve been composting for 20 years. I have no idea what bacteria or fungi we’re growing, but it turns our adobe soil into something that grows plants! 👍❤️👍
i'm just getting into gardening and composting. really interesting to think of it as "tending to life". seeing my compost pile steam for the first time, seeing bugs and flies, and even little mammalian critters scurrying around it has been encouraging :)
This is such essential information… I’m applying it since 2 years in my little garden seeing beautiful results and can only imagine what would happen if the whole world of agriculture would get these fundamental insights and build systems of food production upon that understanding … one giant step toward paradise, abundance, freedom. Nurturing life’s capacity to take care of itself. Understanding life deeper and deeper and not interfering where it knows how to manage itself!! This topic is just tremendously important to understand and share the knowledge. I’m deeply grateful to this amazing woman who is paving the way for a new and better world with better food for people and healthy ecosystems for all life including humans ❤️ I pray this knowledge will become embedded in our agricultural systems 🙏🏻 thank you Elaine Ingram and all those seeking to live sustainably ❤️
I do not think it will be embedded in our agricultural systems. It is not profitable. abundance is the worst thing that could happen to capitalism. Scarcity is necessary for something to be profitable. killing the soil is a strategy, not a mistake.
Wow. Thanks, Dr. Elaine! I don't like biology but I understood how to bring life to my (backyard) soil; thanks to your very easy explanation. This would really help me build a sustainable backyard vegetable. I rarely watch 30+ mins videos but this seems like it just passed by! Thanks again for the knowledge. NOW I AM INFECTED! Haha!
SUCH an interesting lecture. I’m so blessed to have access to such information. I’m working on rebuilding my soil for my vegetable garden. It’s total dead soil so it’ll take some time.
Thanks Lou, this is very informative. I see this as another foundation in Ecology on a more micro level probably but still essential to understanding lifeforms etc. Appreciate it so much.
I did the back to Eden gardening thing. Got rid of all my back yard grass by covering it with black weed blocker fabric for about a month. Then removed the fabric. Dumped 2 truckloads of wood chips, which covered my entire backyard about 3 feet high. Topped it with horse manure from a ranch. Pick up leaves from my neighborhood park during 3 consecutive autumns and dumped them over the wood chips and manure. Got chickens and let them roam free in the yard. At the same time I kept burying kitchen scraps for 3 years. At the end of 3 years, I have the most amazing soil that sprouts out any seed you drop in it. I'm still open to suggestions to improve it if possible. Thank you. I hope this helps somebody.
Add in charcoal (biochar as the gardening people call it). Lump charcoal can be extremely porous (and also reasonably resistant to breakdown) providing massiver surface area for bacterial growth.
I think there's something that people need to do is take this information into their hands start to work systems such as Terra Preta, in order for the clay pottery to provide oxygen in the biochar to work holding nutrients to be charged. and for the organisms to be able to mine from the clay. This full living system needs to be made correctly.
Thank you Dr. Ingham! That was fantastic and very much more entertaining than I thought from the opening picture. I have tried for years to wrap my head around the correlation between things like nutrient density, PH, beneficial biomass, & organism relationships. There's a lot of reading out there from some people that (just like in all industries) shouldn't be talking! But listening to this lecture put so much into prospective and gave me a clearer picture. I almost had a stroke trying to absorb it all! But it was worth it. Now I gotta go get me a microscope!
Thanks for the video. Excelent work. This is just an FYI, my friend Crafton is a kindred spirit of yours. He was asked if we had to evacuate Earth, and go live on Mars, never to return. And you were only allowed to bring one item that would fit in a box 12 inches square, what would you bring? He answered without a second thought, "A box of the richest, microbe infested, gorgeous topsoil from my garden." Everyone one else shut up, because there just wasn't a better answer than that.
Miss Ingham, thank you for the advanced science lesson. The man in my profile picture is my grandfather, he had a major in biology and a minor in botany, he worked for California fish and game and taught me a lot about scientific reasoning.
I couldn't wait to return to my property to see it in a different way. I have left it for more than 30 years without any additions and the soil is spongy and healthy.
That’s what I like. Someone who speaks the facts. If I got it she indicates that the $ spent on growing needs focus at all the fungi n bacteria level n not the ways usually done -chemicals !! Sounded like the plant s will self suffice short of a lil periodical boost.
Dr Elaine thank you for your teachings....this is bipartisan and very informative and inspired me to create my own garden....it is going well...especially my medical cannabis
Sorry I’m late. A huge thank you for your fantastic analysis. And, in a way that, even though i thought I knew what I was doing, i still learned a lot! I appreciate your great work. Thank you!
I started out growing marijuana. Not the best thing to grow but it has started me down a gardening rabbit hole that has transpired to what I do now. I love gardening. I grow all kinds of stuff now. It’s super easy. Everything in my garden is edible. I don’t use wire or plastic or chemicals. My raised bed is fire wood piled up and buried with me “super soil”. All the leaves and stems are used in the next round. Soon I’ll be posting on my channel how we grow everything with mother nature. I don’t use pots or containers of any sort. I use corn stalks dried up to support tomatoes and so on. Sometimes I’ll buy amendments like dead animals or rotten fruits from road side stands. It’s amazing.
THANK YOU! You already know, it was exactly what I needed to hear. Not only informative but entertaining, too! I 💗your style😎 I will spread this faster than pertussis!👩🌾
Cette personne ne manque pas d'esprit. Elle rend la pédologie amusante sans compromis sur l'exigence de rigueur scientifique. This person is smart . She makes sciences fun without compromise on knowlegde.
The statements made in the lecture by Dr. Elaine Ingham convey a specific perspective on the importance of bacteria and the relationship between soil aggregates, bacterial glues, and pH. While it is important to acknowledge Dr. Ingham's expertise in soil microbiology, it is necessary to assess the accuracy of the statements in a broader scientific context. Importance of Bacteria: It is widely recognized that bacteria play a crucial role in soil ecosystems. They contribute to nutrient cycling, organic matter decomposition, and the formation of soil aggregates. Bacteria are indeed essential for the overall health and functionality of soil. Glue Production and Soil Aggregates: Bacteria, particularly aerobic bacteria, can produce extracellular substances that help bind soil particles and organic matter, leading to the formation of soil aggregates. These aggregates help stabilize soil structure and provide habitats for microorganisms. The role of bacterial glues in soil aggregation is well-documented. Alkaline pH in Aerobic Bacteria: It is generally true that many aerobic bacteria thrive in environments with slightly alkaline pH. However, it's important to note that the pH preferences of bacteria can vary, and there are bacterial species that can function optimally in neutral or even slightly acidic conditions. The relationship between bacterial glues and alkaline pH is not universally applicable to all bacterial species or soil environments. Anaerobic Conditions and pH Drop: Anaerobic conditions, which occur in waterlogged or poorly oxygenated soils, can lead to a decrease in soil pH. This drop in pH is primarily due to the production of organic acids by anaerobic bacteria during anaerobic respiration. However, it's important to emphasize that not all anaerobic bacteria are detrimental to soil health. Some anaerobic bacteria can perform beneficial functions, such as nitrogen fixation. Toxicity of Anaerobic Compounds: The lecture suggests that anaerobic compounds produced in compost tea or in anaerobic conditions can be toxic and harm beneficial bacteria more than harmful bacteria. While some anaerobic conditions can produce compounds that are detrimental to certain organisms, the overall impact depends on various factors, including the specific compounds involved, their concentrations, and the resilience of the microbial community. It is important to recognize that the effects of anaerobic conditions and associated compounds can vary depending on the context and the specific microbial populations present. While the lecture emphasizes certain aspects of soil microbiology and their relationship with pH and bacterial activity, it is crucial to consider the broader scientific understanding and the complexity of soil ecosystems. Soil health and microbial dynamics are influenced by a multitude of factors, and the relationships between bacteria, soil aggregates, pH, and anaerobic conditions are more nuanced than can be conveyed in a brief excerpt.
Aphids are attracted to excessive nitrogen. A high brix content will deter them from eating your plant. They can't handle the high sugar content. They will always attack the weakest plant.
This is great. They say, you can’t feed the world with using only organic inputs. Therefore, we need to use synthetic fertilizers. Also it’s important to prevent pests and diseases, therefore we need to be applying pesticides, insecticides, and herbicides. The solution is to modify the DNA of the crops we grow the most of, that way we can use round up and our favorite crops will not be bothered with the round up application. How convenient for monocropping, and how nice to be the companies that profit from the sales of these products. Now we find ourselves heavily dependent on inorganic methods of growing food. Uh oh. Good lecture. Everyone’s engaged and enjoying the topic. Coffee’s gone, back to work!
I took a week long seminar with her about 10 years ago. Every lecture was as mind blowing as this one. The highlight of the seminar, however, was using the microscopes we were required to have, and seeing those fascinating creatures she talks about. This video shows that today she is even sharper and more humorous than she was ten years ago. My suspicion is that she drinks compost tea.
Funny! I like her style
😂😂😂💕
😂
Lol 👍🏽👍🏽
Hahahah leachate the age away
I am a science educator and I aspire to be as engaging as Dr. Ingram. I came here to learn how to improve my garden, and I'm leaving inspired to be a better teacher to my students
💚💚💚
I think passion is essential .
How did you improve your garden so far?
This is something you would’ve had to hear about from a friend or on the radio, then have to drive 2-4 hours just to watch it in person with a notepad and paper 📝
This is the best thing about TH-cam. Access to information like this before TH-cam was quite a bit harder than it is now.
that is absolutely true. Learn as much as you can now, before they notice this is too dangerous for the system to work and censorchip goes ballistic.
I am currently a university student and I tell myself this everyday: I can literally learn anything because I have the internet. I love this content and can't wait to continue expanding my knowledge! I wish the best to you all!
@@ichillingiwe still have books too, remember?
@@ScottMason-ss8wwlike my med school professors would say and we found out sure enough.....don't miss lectures..."a good lecture comes to you courtesy of hundreds of books read by the presenter."
You can say that again.
I just became the custodian of a large forested lot that was last logged in about 1949. This will help me do right by it, learning from the ground up.
wow, that sounds like an incredible opportunity! may I ask where this is? sounds fascinating.
Would love to hear more, send updates of what you discover.
Thank you!
The Key word seams to be diversity.
How did you do that?
This is what a good teacher looks like holy smokes; incredibly articulate
She makes soil sound like a rock concert. So cool!
Reading information on Dr. Ingham's ideas, or hearing them distilled by other commentators, you forget what a clear and compelling speaker she is. How great would it be to attend her classes!
It is definitely worth it! www.soilfoodweb.com
This is a true masterclass with a world-class professor.
I bought and read their book, "Teaming with Microbes". Thank you for posting Dr. Elaine's talk. Blessings Abound
When you think you're versed in a subject, like gardening - at it for 56
years - and along comes Elaine Ingham informing you that you must live a
whole nother life to catch up.
Years ago she taught me to feed my 'soil pets' instead of feeding my plants.
@MikeN Ike Blood meal, bone meal ,fish emulsion, compost, leaf mold, rock dust, companion planting...
She's great at putting things in perspective. It's really very basic, and about understanding the fundamentals. So many people over complicate things, that it becomes confusing for new farmers.
I’ve been composting for 20 years. I have no idea what bacteria or fungi we’re growing, but it turns our adobe soil into something that grows plants! 👍❤️👍
i'm just getting into gardening and composting. really interesting to think of it as "tending to life". seeing my compost pile steam for the first time, seeing bugs and flies, and even little mammalian critters scurrying around it has been encouraging :)
Brother!
I've worked about 10 piles of hot compost this season...
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
I'm a little excited to meet you 🌍🌎🌏🕊️
Be well brother Ben 🙏🏼✨
I love the whole process
Long live life!
This is such essential information… I’m applying it since 2 years in my little garden seeing beautiful results and can only imagine what would happen if the whole world of agriculture would get these fundamental insights and build systems of food production upon that understanding … one giant step toward paradise, abundance, freedom. Nurturing life’s capacity to take care of itself. Understanding life deeper and deeper and not interfering where it knows how to manage itself!! This topic is just tremendously important to understand and share the knowledge. I’m deeply grateful to this amazing woman who is paving the way for a new and better world with better food for people and healthy ecosystems for all life including humans ❤️ I pray this knowledge will become embedded in our agricultural systems 🙏🏻 thank you Elaine Ingram and all those seeking to live sustainably ❤️
Don’t tell Bill Gates!
I do not think it will be embedded in our agricultural systems. It is not profitable. abundance is the worst thing that could happen to capitalism. Scarcity is necessary for something to be profitable. killing the soil is a strategy, not a mistake.
Bless this human for saving the world with knowledge.
I absolutley LOVE Dr Elaine Ingham...so refreshing to hear her! Dirts worst enemy and soils best friend!
Wow! Thanks for the in-depth content. Great to hear from someone so knowledgeable.
Jason!! Fancy seeing you here brother
Really like this lady's style and agree 100% with her conclusions.
This woman is a Saint!
Thank you very much Dr. Elaine Ingham for sharing your knowledge with us on this media. Greetings from a cacao grower from Queensland. Thanks again
Massive upload Diego, thanks for doing it, will watch them this weekend
A Great Lecture to tell the importance of Microorganisms balance in our soil in order to improve our farming. Love from Agronomist. Very Helpful ❤
I need to learn more from this woman, she explains it in a way I am able to understand!!!
Wow shes amazing.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! You are such a good teacher.
Going to need to watch each of these twice to make sure my notes are accurate 😊 thank you for making this available to us
Wow. Thanks, Dr. Elaine! I don't like biology but I understood how to bring life to my (backyard) soil; thanks to your very easy explanation. This would really help me build a sustainable backyard vegetable. I rarely watch 30+ mins videos but this seems like it just passed by! Thanks again for the knowledge. NOW I AM INFECTED! Haha!
She explains this so succinctly. Halfway through and I really want to buy this woman a beer.
What an excellent teacher.
SUCH an interesting lecture. I’m so blessed to have access to such information. I’m working on rebuilding my soil for my vegetable garden. It’s total dead soil so it’ll take some time.
Wow wow wow. This woman is a blessing!
Thanks Lou, this is very informative. I see this as another foundation in Ecology on a more micro level probably but still essential to understanding lifeforms etc. Appreciate it so much.
Yassss!!!! Finally, someone says it! This is what we need! Blass you for posting this!
This is genius. I have been looking for this information for thirty years.
I did the back to Eden gardening thing.
Got rid of all my back yard grass by covering it with black weed blocker fabric for about a month. Then removed the fabric.
Dumped 2 truckloads of wood chips, which covered my entire backyard about 3 feet high.
Topped it with horse manure from a ranch.
Pick up leaves from my neighborhood park during 3 consecutive autumns and dumped them over the wood chips and manure.
Got chickens and let them roam free in the yard.
At the same time I kept burying kitchen scraps for 3 years.
At the end of 3 years, I have the most amazing soil that sprouts out any seed you drop in it.
I'm still open to suggestions to improve it if possible. Thank you. I hope this helps somebody.
Add in charcoal (biochar as the gardening people call it). Lump charcoal can be extremely porous (and also reasonably resistant to breakdown) providing massiver surface area for bacterial growth.
I think what people really need to take from this is that this compost is the most important tool in your growing tool shed
I think there's something that people need to do is take this information into their hands
start to work systems such as Terra Preta, in order for the clay pottery to provide oxygen in the biochar to work holding nutrients to be charged. and for the organisms to be able to mine from the clay.
This full living system needs to be made correctly.
And hydrology
Thank you Dr. Ingham! That was fantastic and very much more entertaining than I thought from the opening picture. I have tried for years to wrap my head around the correlation between things like nutrient density, PH, beneficial biomass, & organism relationships. There's a lot of reading out there from some people that (just like in all industries) shouldn't be talking! But listening to this lecture put so much into prospective and gave me a clearer picture. I almost had a stroke trying to absorb it all! But it was worth it. Now I gotta go get me a microscope!
Who needs universities, I just need this woman in my life!
Honestly, the david Attenborough impression? 😍 I'm here to learn seriously about soil, but what a treat that was.
You speak the language of science so even a truck driver can understand!
Wow, she's amazing, I loved listening to her!
Been watching for about 5 minutes…. GREAT info. Taking notes!
Excellent lecture Dr. Elaine Ingham
Dr. Elaine. you are great teacher. thanks!
Excellent lecture.
I wish Dr Ingram had been my Life Science teacher back in the 70s! 😘
Thanks for the video. Excelent work. This is just an FYI, my friend Crafton is a kindred spirit of yours. He was asked if we had to evacuate Earth, and go live on Mars, never to return. And you were only allowed to bring one item that would fit in a box 12 inches square, what would you bring? He answered without a second thought, "A box of the richest, microbe infested, gorgeous topsoil from my garden." Everyone one else shut up, because there just wasn't a better answer than that.
What a great teacher
Miss Ingham, thank you for the advanced science lesson. The man in my profile picture is my grandfather, he had a major in biology and a minor in botany, he worked for California fish and game and taught me a lot about scientific reasoning.
What a passionate teacher!
I could listen to her all day, I relisten occasionally to reinforce
Within the first sentence of this lady talking I knew it would be good!
I couldn't wait to return to my property to see it in a different way. I have left it for more than 30 years without any additions and the soil is spongy and healthy.
Balance! The formula and key to all life
Great understanding of the subject, 🙏🙏🙏
Clarity of thought
Great Teacher
That’s what I like. Someone who speaks the facts. If I got it she indicates that the $ spent on growing needs focus at all the fungi n bacteria level n not the ways usually done -chemicals !! Sounded like the plant s will self suffice short of a lil periodical boost.
That is a truly excellent speaker. I learned a lot and was highly entertained at the same time. Glad I found this video series.
Wow fantastic, and aligns with what I've noticed in my garden. Need to find more from her.
Just enjoyed listening. What a great teacher♡
Dr Elaine thank you for your teachings....this is bipartisan and very informative and inspired me to create my own garden....it is going well...especially my medical cannabis
This was a gift to me, thank you. I will share it with the world
Sorry I’m late. A huge thank you for your fantastic analysis. And, in a way that, even though i thought I knew what I was doing, i still learned a lot! I appreciate your great work. Thank you!
Wow! This is eye opening. Thank you for the upload.
I happened upon this by chance. It's fascinating! Thanks for sharing!
Seems like a fun class to take, I enjoyed the teaching style.🎉
It's interesting to learn how to maintain the soil good to plant on and preserve the bacteria...Thanks .
Such and interesting speaker and beyond brilliant!
Excellent lecture. Thanks, Diego!
A verry informative video.
She is awesome at making a topic really interresting
Fantastic lecture... thanks everybody.
What an amazing speaker!
Extraordinary balance, being understandable to laymen (like me)& an Intellectual heavyweight.(unlike me)
Bravo
such a fine speaker
I started out growing marijuana. Not the best thing to grow but it has started me down a gardening rabbit hole that has transpired to what I do now. I love gardening. I grow all kinds of stuff now. It’s super easy. Everything in my garden is edible. I don’t use wire or plastic or chemicals. My raised bed is fire wood piled up and buried with me “super soil”. All the leaves and stems are used in the next round. Soon I’ll be posting on my channel how we grow everything with mother nature. I don’t use pots or containers of any sort. I use corn stalks dried up to support tomatoes and so on. Sometimes I’ll buy amendments like dead animals or rotten fruits from road side stands. It’s amazing.
Wow! She is wonderful!
Dr. Elaine Ingham for President!
Yup. She's got my vote ;-)
This is simply brilliant!
This woman is incredible!! How inspiring
This is absolutely fascinating
Wow! Thanks for posting this! just awesome- so helpful!
Awesome info thank you!
I think this channel could save the world
❤❤❤ thanks madam from Philippine
ty for sharing
THANK YOU! You already know, it was exactly what I needed to hear. Not only informative but entertaining, too! I 💗your style😎 I will spread this faster than pertussis!👩🌾
I am happy I stumbled upon this
YES! Kiss the ground, thank you very in the moment of my gardening observations and the soil health.
Cette personne ne manque pas d'esprit. Elle rend la pédologie amusante sans compromis sur l'exigence de rigueur scientifique.
This person is smart . She makes sciences fun without compromise on knowlegde.
We have been totally infected by her knowledge. Always captivating hearing from the great leaders of soil science.
Can anyone tell me what microscope she is referring to towards the end of this video? Thank you!
Did you get an answer to this?
I did not
So far all I got was add compost to help bring back life balance to my soil. Check working on that.
Elaine... you mentioned an affordable microscope with a camera; can you pls send more info and source for microscope? thank you
Did you get an answer to this?
So glad i stumbled upon this! 🤯🤯
Would love to get that link for the microscope
Here is a link to her talking about microscopes which might be helpful.
th-cam.com/video/kSLWx-u_b1I/w-d-xo.html
If only everyone had a wholistic approach... Great Content!
Thank you so much for the upload!
I would be interested to hear a conversation with Dr. Elaine Ingham and a well experienced practitioner of KNF!
The statements made in the lecture by Dr. Elaine Ingham convey a specific perspective on the importance of bacteria and the relationship between soil aggregates, bacterial glues, and pH. While it is important to acknowledge Dr. Ingham's expertise in soil microbiology, it is necessary to assess the accuracy of the statements in a broader scientific context.
Importance of Bacteria: It is widely recognized that bacteria play a crucial role in soil ecosystems. They contribute to nutrient cycling, organic matter decomposition, and the formation of soil aggregates. Bacteria are indeed essential for the overall health and functionality of soil.
Glue Production and Soil Aggregates: Bacteria, particularly aerobic bacteria, can produce extracellular substances that help bind soil particles and organic matter, leading to the formation of soil aggregates. These aggregates help stabilize soil structure and provide habitats for microorganisms. The role of bacterial glues in soil aggregation is well-documented.
Alkaline pH in Aerobic Bacteria: It is generally true that many aerobic bacteria thrive in environments with slightly alkaline pH. However, it's important to note that the pH preferences of bacteria can vary, and there are bacterial species that can function optimally in neutral or even slightly acidic conditions. The relationship between bacterial glues and alkaline pH is not universally applicable to all bacterial species or soil environments.
Anaerobic Conditions and pH Drop: Anaerobic conditions, which occur in waterlogged or poorly oxygenated soils, can lead to a decrease in soil pH. This drop in pH is primarily due to the production of organic acids by anaerobic bacteria during anaerobic respiration. However, it's important to emphasize that not all anaerobic bacteria are detrimental to soil health. Some anaerobic bacteria can perform beneficial functions, such as nitrogen fixation.
Toxicity of Anaerobic Compounds: The lecture suggests that anaerobic compounds produced in compost tea or in anaerobic conditions can be toxic and harm beneficial bacteria more than harmful bacteria. While some anaerobic conditions can produce compounds that are detrimental to certain organisms, the overall impact depends on various factors, including the specific compounds involved, their concentrations, and the resilience of the microbial community. It is important to recognize that the effects of anaerobic conditions and associated compounds can vary depending on the context and the specific microbial populations present.
While the lecture emphasizes certain aspects of soil microbiology and their relationship with pH and bacterial activity, it is crucial to consider the broader scientific understanding and the complexity of soil ecosystems. Soil health and microbial dynamics are influenced by a multitude of factors, and the relationships between bacteria, soil aggregates, pH, and anaerobic conditions are more nuanced than can be conveyed in a brief excerpt.
Very very interesting. Thank you.
I need some help with aphids 9n brassica... Elaine says brassica are different to other plants.... What do I do to the soil to fix the aphid problem?
It might be through figuring out how to draw in something like katydids or small birds that eat aphids?
Aphids are attracted to excessive nitrogen. A high brix content will deter them from eating your plant. They can't handle the high sugar content. They will always attack the weakest plant.
loved every second of this
This is great.
They say, you can’t feed the world with using only organic inputs.
Therefore, we need to use synthetic fertilizers. Also it’s important to prevent pests and diseases, therefore we need to be applying pesticides, insecticides, and herbicides.
The solution is to modify the DNA of the crops we grow the most of, that way we can use round up and our favorite crops will not be bothered with the round up application. How convenient for monocropping, and how nice to be the companies that profit from the sales of these products.
Now we find ourselves heavily dependent on inorganic methods of growing food.
Uh oh.
Good lecture. Everyone’s engaged and enjoying the topic.
Coffee’s gone, back to work!