Story: Improving your garden plants health by improving your soil health
Episode: 1
Presenter: Trevor Cochrane
Air Date: 18th March 2023

Trevor gives us the perfect lesson on how to maintain a healthy garden, and it all starts with soil microbes!

• If you have ever had a poor performing plant, one that’s just not happy, or perhaps a plague of insects affecting your favourite plants like aphids on these roses then this story is very important for you to watch.
• We often apply large amounts of fertilizer, spending money on soil tonics or spending lots of money on chemicals that can be harmful to beneficial insects and even our own health.
• Focusing on one very important thing which will help you turn your garden into a lush healthy oasis overflowing with happy productive plants is key here!
• Happy healthy plants grow in healthy organically rich moist soils. One of the most challenging garden environments is Perth, for any plant exotic to its deep, gutless, sandy soils.
• The key to gardening success is a soil rich in organic carbon, free draining, capable of holding consistent moisture levels and rich in beneficial soil microbes.
• It’s not impossible to have a beautiful garden in a harsh extreme environment such as Perth’s but you have to work at things to ensure plants exotic to this unique environment can thrive.
• These rules actually apply to gardens all over Australia, and the principles of permaculture really resonate here, adding lots of carbon in the form of leave litter, compost, manures and other organics helps provide the beneficial microbes we want in our soil to thrive.

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