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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Avoid These Common Landscaping MISTAKES

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

We're back with Ben Hale from Easy Living Yards. He's a landscaper who focuses on blending edible + ornamental landscapes into your life, connecting more with your community, and making an impact on the environment as a whole. Today's episode focuses on the mistakes beginners make when landscaping their yards. Avoid these and save yourself a TON of time, money, and effort! Learn More: Easy Living Yards with Ben Hale Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone Kevin from Epic Gardening here and we're back again with Ben Hale from Easy Living Yards and today we're talking about some of the more practical elements of landscaping your yard.

0:13.4

And the first one would be avoiding mistakes.

0:17.0

Because if you can avoid a mistake,

0:18.5

you're probably going to avoid a lot of the other problems

0:20.8

that are going to happen in your landscape down the road.

0:23.5

I mean, these are very tried and true principles.

0:26.4

Same with edible gardening.

0:27.6

If you avoid planting mistakes, well, then you're not going to have crowding out

0:31.7

down the road later in the season or if you

0:33.8

plant something in too small of a pot well then you might be in trouble and a lot of

0:37.6

that time is wasted so it's always important to avoid mistakes before you can

0:40.9

even come into the problems that they cause.

0:44.2

And so Ben, what are the, I guess, principal areas where people are making mistakes in

0:50.7

their landscaping?

0:52.4

So when it comes to principal areas that mistake... making mistakes in their

0:55.0

happen.

0:56.0

Really, there's kind of, I would say, almost one overarching thing,

1:00.0

which is not thinking with intent before making a decision.

1:05.0

And so when you're coming into a landscape, and unfortunately for us,

1:10.0

a lot of us moving to a new property might already have existing mistakes that we have to deal with.

1:15.0

And that's the worst because you're not the one that did it.

1:19.0

But when it comes to actually say you want to plant a plant in your space and it could be in your garden too.

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