Maintaining healthy soil is fundamental for growing food and flowers. Chelsie Anderson, owner of Chelsie’s Garden Soil-utions, dishes the dirt on soil amendments and how to help your garden thrive.

Plus, Elyse Abma-Bouma shares a story about her balcony garden.

Topics in this episode:

• Worm castings. Read more about worms and soil microbes on Chelsie Anderson’s blog.

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Happy gardening!

Music composed by: Doug Hoyer