Subtropical gardeners in Australia suffer greatly from our mostly European cultural heritage. Those in the tropics at least can’t delude themselves that all the lovely pictures and techniques in the glossy gardening books are worth trying. Instead many of us go through a drawn out process of trying and failing to bring those temperate ideals to life. Those of us who persist long enough eventually figure out different ways of approaching things. One crucial ideal we have inherited is the idea of “building soil” and that deserves closer attention.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://zaszambia.wordpress.com/2022/05/16/look-on-my-compost-ye-mighty/