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 Web Teaming with Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition and TEAMING WITH FUNGI The Organic Grower’s Guide to Mycorrhizae AND NOW HIS NEW BOOK: DIY Autoflowering Cannabis: An Easy Way to Grow Your Own Tell us a little about yourself. I was a lawyer, I worked for a fortune 500 company always been a gardener Tell me about your first gardening experience? my father had to take over a family 8 acres frustrated farmers all the magazines JI Rodale came over to the house for dinner I must have been about 10-11 How did you learn how to garden organically? My first memories are being pushed around in a wheel barrow by my father in the garden The first thing I planted was a wedding cake strawberry planter Im in Anchorage Alaska, the longest running garden columnist My new book is on a brand new kind of cannabis It will be the next tomato plant remember when the snap peas came out everybody had to grow them still growing them today has no photo period same size as a tomato produces from seed to harvest just like a tomato plant small plant one of the things I love about the books is the diagram in the back with the plant diagram, leaves plant leaves nitrogen deficiency if you don’t know what the photoperiod thing is cannabis has to have 12 hours day 12 hours night they require 12 hours + one minute poinsettias cactus triggered by length of light If 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...