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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Lessons Learned: 3 Common Garden Planning Mistakes

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this pre-2020 rerun, Kevin outlines the 3 most common gardening mistakes and how to avoid them. While much has happened since then, these missteps are still a regular problem for some gardeners. Learn how to make the right choices ahead of the 2024 season here. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/46YT0c1 Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3GIaO0k Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/47PETax EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3RgGejq Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design.   Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead!  Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, and Jacques) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello my friends Kevin here from Epic Gardening we are recuperating resting and

0:16.7

planning for 2024 so today's episode is a rerun of some of our favorites from years past.

0:23.7

Hope you enjoy.

0:26.7

Good morning everyone.

0:28.3

Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast.

0:31.1

I just realized it might not be morning when you're listening to this. So good, whatever, and wherever you are in the world and whatever you're doing.

0:38.0

So today we're talking about three mistakes that you can make when planning out your 20-20 garden and I really want to

0:44.3

highlight this because a mistake at this phase can ruin an entire season right if

0:51.6

for example you were to plant your garden on a shady north-facing

0:56.4

slope, well, you're probably going to have a bad time for the whole year. So here are three

1:01.8

things that you can do incorrectly right now and hopefully

1:06.7

this episode helps you avoid them. The first is going to be overcrowding your garden. Now I personally think it's fine to start more

1:18.2

seeds than you need. I would say by at least 25% or so because you just never know.

1:23.6

You know, the best plans, what's that saying,

1:26.4

all best plans are laid to waste, something like that?

1:29.4

You don't know.

1:30.3

So I think it's good to over-start seeds. That being said, I think it's good to overstart seeds that being said. I think it's bad to say you know what I think I can cram another broccoli in there. I think I don't need to go

1:41.0

With this spacing I can I can half the spacing now sometimes that's true because

1:45.1

seed packs aren't the best indicator of true planting density that you can

1:50.6

achieve because most of those are based off roe style planting not

1:54.0

raised bed or intensive planting but no matter what you do have to visualize that

1:59.8

plant at its end state right so for, it was big leaves that come out.

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