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Back to EpisodesYour Cover Crops Need Some Compost + A Boring and Effective Pest Strategy
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Welcome to episode 193 of Growers Daily!
We cover: "can I use the rock dust from the well we dug", the complicated relationship between compost and carbon, and why my pest strategy is so boring.
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Compost and cover Crop study:
https://caes.ucdavis.edu/news/compost-key-sequestering-carbon-soil
Compost/Cover Crop human pathogen study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8519115/
Thrips study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11050518/
Earthworms helping tomatoes with thrips https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0038071718304061
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Storm Watch byh American Legion
Phosphorescence by Kylie Dailey
Mayfliesd in the Fading Sun by Velvethead
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