You're listening to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net,

and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the tools they need to grow a rewarding, productive garden. Hey there, so glad you're joining me today.

If you're like me, you're getting super excited about the garden season.

I know my to-do list is a mile long,

but every hour I'm able to spend outside on a pretty day, I'm just eating it up. I love it so

much. And so I figure since you're listening to me today that you're kind of getting a little

bit excited too. So I'm super excited about what we're going to be talking about in the podcast today.

If you're a long time listener to the podcast, you may recall last February. I did a podcast on

seven common raised bed gardening mistakes. And I also wrote a blog post that accompanies the

episode, just like I do every show, because I know

not everybody likes to listen, they also like to read. But little did I know at the time that

this subject would be one that would resonate with so many people. The article itself is

still read thousands of times a day, even over a year later. And probably many of you who are listening

to the podcast, that may have been the article or even the podcast episode that introduced you to

the Beginners Garden podcast. So I know that so many of you are gardening in raised beds.

That's why I thought it would be fitting to return back

to that blog post because since I published it, there have been at this time close to 100 comments

on the post itself, and lots of them were questions. They were questions that have come up as you all

are building and growing in your

raised beds. I thought many of you who may have read the post or who have listened to the podcast,

you might be interested in some of those follow-up questions and some of the responses that

not only I provided to some of those comments, but also many of you chimed in with your experience and

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