Good morning everyone. Welcome back to the Epic Gardening

podcast. I just realized it might not be morning when you're listening to

this. So good whatever and wherever you are in the world and

whatever you're doing so today we're talking about three mistakes that you can

make when planning out your 20-20 garden and I really want to highlight this

because a mistake at this phase can ruin an entire season, right?

If for example you were to plant your garden on a shady north-facing slope?

Well, you're probably going to have a bad time for the whole year.

So here are three things that you can do incorrectly right now and hopefully this episode helps you avoid them.

The first is going to be overcrowding your garden.

Now I personally think it's fine to start more seeds than you need. I would say by at

least 25% or so because you just never know. You know the best plans, what's that saying the all best plans are laid to

waste something like that you don't know so I think it's good to over-start

seeds that being said I think it's bad to say, you know what, I think I can cram another broccoli in there.

I think I don't need to go with this spacing.

I can half the spacing.

Now sometimes that's true because seed packs aren't the best indicator of true

planting density that you can achieve because most of those are based off row

style planting not raised bed or intensive planting but no matter what you do have to

visualize that plant at its end state right so for cabbage it was big leaves that

come out you need to give them the space that they need.

I mean, the smallest spacing

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