You're listening to the Beginners Garden Podcast.

I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey With Jill.net, and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the tools they need to grow a rewarding, productive garden.

Music Today we're going to talk about planning your garden space. The idea of planning a garden seems simple. Just plant in the dirt, right?

But before you can ever get to that

point, you have to make several decisions like the type of garden and location. First, let's talk

about the three most popular garden spaces, a plot of land, raised beds, and container gardening.

I do a mixture of all three, and I'm going to share with you

what I've found to be the benefits and the drawbacks of each type. If you're just starting to

plan your garden, I hope these tips help you decide what type of garden space to have.

And if you already have a garden space and use one of these methods, you might determine to add another.

If you have the time and space, I think a mixture of all three methods works really well.

The first that I mentioned is a plot of land.

Now, when I think about a garden, I think about my mom's gardens growing up.

No matter where we lived, she had a garden. And they were always in a

plot of land, in the backyard or the side of the yard, and they always contained rows of vegetables.

Now, there are benefits to gardening in a plot of land. First of all, they are cheaper to start up. You don't have to purchase many supplies.

The second is they offer a greater flexibility of crops. For example, larger crops like corn and

potatoes do better in a plot of land. Another benefit that I've found just from my experience is

I see more earthworms in the soil in my plot of

land. If you know anything about soil biology, you know that earthworms are good. They take the

organic matter in the soil and they consume it and then what they leave behind is called

earthworm castings and these are highly nutritious

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