Hey, what's going on everyone. Kevin from Epic Gardening here. Today we're talking about

spacing your plants and how you tie that to how much to grow of a particular plant.

You know, this is something that a lot of people have issues with I

certainly have in the past and I certainly still struggle with it you know

sometimes it's hard to plan how much I want to grow of a particular plant.

I get really excited and I'll plant either way too much or way too little of something because

you know I'm managing a small space garden. I really do have to be particular about what does and

does not go into my garden and of the things

that do make it into the garden the question then becomes well how much of them am I going

to plant the thing that I think is the easiest way to visualize this is you always have to start

with the end in mind when it comes to planting the harvest and that's hard because you're

thinking in a way that I don't think many of us are used to thinking in.

We're thinking in the future at the future size of these plants and also tying that to how much we need of them, right? So let's say, you know, we want

some Romaine lettuce. Well, Romaine lettuce gets decently large and you usually want to space that at something like four per square foot or maybe four to six inches apart depending on your spacing methodology.

You know, I personally like to space

in the square foot gardening method

because I don't plant rows and rows and rows of things

in my raised beds.

I like to go really high density and try to get as much yield as I can

because again I'm growing in a small space so every square inch even counts.

So you know with with Romaine let's go back to it one square foot of my garden equals four heads of

romaine so then the question becomes well how many heads of romaine do I want

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