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May 30

May 30 E171: Experimenting In The Garden With Jordan Mara from Mind & Soil

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May is here and it feels like a lifetime since our last episode! Today we catch-up about our May gardens, Spring weather challenges, garden redesigns, trips to Italy...there's been LOTS going on for us both this Spring!

Today’s Guest: Jordan Mara from Mind & Soil

Jordan Mara is a Canadian gardener and content creator based on the West Coast. He’s the founder of Mind & Soil, a gardening platform that covers seasonal gardening topics by trialing gardening experiments. He has over 250,000 YouTube subscribers, +300,000 Instagram subscribers and many many across all the other Mind & Soil channels.

Jordan carries a range of gardening products on his website, including worm castings. Available for gardeners across Canada.

Links & resources mentioned in this episode:

Blog post on Maggie's New Zone 3 Food & Flower Garden ("Cottage Core" Vibe)
Goth Plants available at Sage Garden Greenhouses
Jordan's Mind & Soil channel links: YouTube, Instagram and website
Jordan’s YouTube video experiment “Full Tour of my NEW Automatic Irrigation System!”
Jordan’s YouTube video experiment “Compost vs. Fertilizer: I TESTED Potting Up Tomatoes with 5 Fertilizers - Here's What Happened!”
Jordan’s YouTube video experiment “I TESTED growing 5 Crops with and without straw - Here are the results!”
HealthiStraw garden mulch product mentioned at the 1 hour 11 minute mark in the Patreon episode
Luay’s (@urbandfarmandkitchen) Instagram reel showing how he keeps pests off brassicas
Evolve Organic Fertilizers as Maggie & Dave mentioned as their fav Canadian fertilizer

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