Welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net, and my goal is to give beginning gardeners today. Today we're going to be talking about one of the topics that I'm really passionate about, and that is making the most of your garden space by

utilizing succession planting and relay planting. For those of you who aren't

familiar with the terms I am going to give you a brief definition of relay

planting and succession planting but I wanted to kind of give you a little bit of background first

about how I stumbled upon these methods of gardening

because like most things, it wasn't something that I did right away.

It was one of those things I realized I needed to adjust for

after a season or two.

One of my first years, I'll never forget.

I was so excited because I was able to plant potatoes for the first time and harvest them.

And I don't know about you, but harvesting potatoes is one of my favorite things to do.

It's like going on a treasure hunt or an

archaeological dig or something. You just put your spade in the soil and you dig up treasures, right?

So I loved harvesting my potatoes and so it is a lot of work, but thankfully usually we harvest

in the early part of the summer when the heat isn't too oppressive yet.

But I remember even looking at that wheelbarrow full of potatoes and feeling such a sense of satisfaction.

Once I got those tubers out and those plants out, then I just kind of sat and looked at the soil

and it dawned on me. Well, what now? I mean, I normally

harvest my potatoes in, I'd say early June usually, although this year I have a feeling it's

going to be much later just because our spring has delayed so long. But early June is pretty

much the beginning of the summer. I mean, I had a full summer left, and yet I had this huge amount of space that I hadn't planned anything for.

And I don't know if you've made this mistake too, maybe in your first couple of seasons,

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