How's it going everyone?

How's it going to be?

How's it going everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. I hope you are doing okay and you are staying nice and healthy and safe today. Spring is coming, spring has actually already come, but what should we do about our gardens?

Should we clean them? Should we not clean them? How do we prepare them? Now this is something I used to do a little differently and now I've changed my tune, right?

As I gain my gardening knowledge and grow as a gardener, I adapt my processes and oftentimes I actually do less rather than doing more.

Let's talk about why spring is the time to clean your garden and why fall is not the time.

Okay?

We've talked about this a little bit.

A couple of people have been on the podcast talking about this and this was really

eye-opening for me. I loved it.

So here's what the reasoning is behind this.

We want a good ecosystem in our garden, right?

We want pollinators, we want things to start breaking down over the fall

in the winter, working their way into the soil.

We want these natural processes to happen because

as we let those happen, we let a lot of work just get done for us, right? If you clean up in the

fall, you are removing the ecosystem.

You're removing the dead material that the pollinators will overwinter in,

and you're removing the dead material that will break down into your garden and feed your soil again. So if you wait until the spring you're

going to do your garden a whole lot of good. Now when do we clean up in the spring?

Waiting is a great idea. when do we clean up in the spring?

Wading is a great idea because all of those pollinators,

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