That’s what I asked my organic gardening friend who had taped the TV show for me to see. It was a famous gardener with a regular show and an expensive book out on “how to” grow vegetables.
The fellow was actually promoting not feeding the plant, only the soil---and then proceeded to kill the soil and feed the plant—through a tube stuck in the ground down to root level!
But no, sadly, it wasn’t a comedy. I didn’t know whether to laugh at the humor, or cry at the possibility that someone would actually do what he was promoting, even though it was an extremely complex set of instructions. I was told the fellow had a PhD in something.
He was seriously putting whiskey, liquid soap, Coca Cola, and some other less harmful stuff in his planting hole. Whiskey is often used for sterilization, as the alcohol kills bacteria and microbes. Liquid soap is intended to kill bacteria and microbes. Who knows what’s in Coca Cola, because the recipe is locked up in a safe somewhere. At best it will rust a nail, kill a worm and draw ants. How anyone would believe that any of that stuff could possibly “feed the soil” is well beyond my ability to comprehend.
Fertile soil is a universe of vibrant life. Yet here the fellow was, right on TV, advising people to wipe it all out—and feed the plant through a tube!
Nothing is more common than dirt. Nothing is less common than fertile, uncontaminated dirt.
If we want to survive at all, we need to feed our soil. Our soil will feed us.
The drug and chemical companies, among others, have a vested interest in our continuing to destroy the soil.
If we were getting real nutrition, we wouldn’t need so many of their drugs.
If we want our soil to be able to produce vegetables and grain loaded with vitamins and minerals, we won’t buy their chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
Feed the soil what nature created it with in the first place. It’s much cheaper in the short run---and it’s infinitely cheaper in the long run.
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