I’m a certified plant killer. I’m really terrible at indoor plants. Please tell me I’m not alone. Luckily, this just applies to indoor plants or a garden, not the crops. I’m getting better. With more knowledge, you do better. Each time I kill another plant, I learn something new. My latest venture has been in fresh herbs. And I love it.
The thing I do wrong with my house plants is treat them like we treat our crops-only omitting a few very key variables. Our crops use the same soil again and again so why can’t my plants? Our soil grows multiple crops in a year, so why can’t my indoor soil?
I’m sure you’re all much smarter than me, but it finally clicked when I had a lengthy conversation with the woman that sold me my cilantro plant. Duh! Lightbulbs went off in my head. We REPLENISH the nutrients on our crop ground. (Like the fertilizer that we are applying right now) We rotate crops that take and put back different nutrients into the soil. We also utilize really natural approaches to keep the soil in tip top shape like keeping the microorganisms in the soil healthy and happy. We also let our cows graze the crop stalks and cover crops. They churn the soil up a little with their feet, while also putting natural fertilizer back out on the ground.
It never dawned on me that I couldn’t expect the soil in pots in my house to produce like the soil on our farm. When I bought my cilantro plant, that woman explained and I got it, finally. Not all of us think alike. Matt, I’m sure, could have told me how dumb I was being, but his interest in my house plants is zero. It took a caring greenhouse worker to say it in a way that I could get. I couldn’t figure out why people would buy potting soil when they lived on a farm with soil all around them. The greenhouse employee further explained that the things I’m growing in the house aren’t really growing outside in our part of the world. The potting soil is structured more like the soil that the plant is normally grown in.
So as we spread fertilizer on the pastures and hay ground, it’s just like when you replenish your plants’ soil nutrients. We do it in a very precise manner so as not to over or under apply. The outside soil has so much more going for it than the soil in my pots in the house. The soil is our livelihood. Without it we grow nothing. We want to keep it healthy so it will grow grass or crops for us. Nutrient dense soil produces nutrient dense foods.
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~Matt & Kelsey