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H: LetÕs talk about plants. PHIL: Okay.
H: You do the talking, I will do the listening. Phil: When you are growing plants in containers
especially when they are inside, itÕs a very unnatural environment for them. They donÕt
have their microbial partners in the soil and itÕs even the case in our gardens because
of pesticide used or just air pollution or tilling are all kinds of things we often have
lower bacteria and fungi than we want and so we always are trying to improve that as
organic gardeners and the main way to do that is good compost.
If you can find that, now thatÕs hard to find and hard to decide for that but if you
have some locally made worm compost thatÕs usually very nutritious, like those in your
soil, it has nutrients but also has beneficial microorganisms to establish that soil ecosystem.
They protect your plants from disease and even from some insects by being right all
around the root zone and all over the leaves and being like a first line of defense up
there. The other thing we do is, we feed nutrients
to your plants and then the plants feed them carbohydrates in returns with this bartering
system than happen, so your plants really get protection and food and water, especially
a lot of the conventional party mixes even organic ones becomes sterile. We want to reintroduce
these microorganisms, so one way to do that is to bring some compost in worm compost is
really great, if you can find some in your area or you can make some itself, there is
also another one I really love called effective microorganisms and itÕs a liquid you buy
from amazon.com or other places online and you mix it with water sprayed on your plants
and on the roots and on to like on the soil and the leaves, it inoculates them with these
beneficial microorganisms and itÕs basically a liquid.
It just really like less than 20 different species of mostly bacteria provide amazing
benefits for plants and what you do is you spray them onto the plants, our spray bottle
isnÕt working, so you are going to be spray, thatÕs your contribution to the video.
H: I went to university. Phil: And you can get a bottle for say 20
to 25 dollars or sometimes even less on amazon and the results are incredible and their other
usage for humans that I am not going to get into today but this is the one thing I recommend
people do even before fertilizing, we are going to talk about fertilizing in the next
video and thatÕs all for this one. H: ThatÕs all folks.
Container Gardening Series - Inoculating Your Container Plants