304. The Organic Gardener Soil Food Web Expert Jeff Lowenfels | What would Greta Do? |

Jeff Lowenfels author of the Teaming With Microbes Soil Trilogy shares his system for creating healthy organic ecosystems and how we can all work to save the world if we just answer the question What would Greta think?If you wondered why we changed the name to the GREEN Organic Gardener Podcast there will be no doubt when you finish with this amazing episode. Get ready for Jeff to drop Golden Seeds Galore!JEFF LOWENFELS "LORD OF THE ROOTS" AUTHOR OF THE SOIL TRIOLOGY:Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food WebTeaming with Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant NutritionandTEAMING WITH FUNGIThe Organic Grower’s Guide to MycorrhizaeAND NOW HIS NEW BOOK: DIY Autoflowering Cannabis: An Easy Way to Grow Your OwnTell us a little about yourself.I was a lawyer, I worked for a fortune 500 companyalways been a gardenerTell me about your first gardening experience?my father had to take over a family8 acresfrustrated farmersall the magazinesJI Rodalecame over to the house for dinnerI must have been about 10-11How did you learn how to garden organically?My first memories are being pushed around in a wheel barrow by my father in the gardenThe first thing I planted was a wedding cake strawberry planterIm in Anchorage Alaska, the longest running garden columnistMy new book is on a brand new kind of cannabisIt will be the next tomato plantremember when the snap peas came outeverybody had to grow themstill growing them todayhas no photo periodsame size as a tomatoproduces from seed to harvestjust like a tomato plantsmall plantone of the things I love about the books is the diagram in the back with the plant diagram, leavesplant leavesnitrogen deficiencyif you don’t know what the photoperiod thing iscannabis has to have 12 hours day 12 hours nightthey require12 hours + one minutepoinsettiascactustriggered by length of lightIf you take a christmas cactus and leave it in a situation where it gets more daylight then darkness it won’t bloom no matter what.A Russian guy was...