Lessons Learned: My 2020 Garden Goals

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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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.
0:23.5	Hope you enjoy.
0:25.0	What's going on everyone?
0:27.0	Kevin here from Epic Gardening.
0:28.0	Today we're doing a fun one.
0:30.0	I thought I would just share my goals for the garden this year. Now they always change, they always shift based on what I did last year, my shifting interests in the garden, and some things that I want to do for epic gardening, right?
0:44.7	And so they may be a little different from yours. I'm actually really curious to hear what your goals are as well,
0:49.7	so feel free to share those with me on Instagram at Epic Gardening.
0:53.6	You can just shoot me a message.
0:55.3	Let me know what you're kind of thinking about, what you're planning.
0:57.3	I would love to hear it.
0:58.7	Now, for me, it makes sense to look back at last year.
1:03.0	Last year was a crazy year both for gardening and epic gardening.
1:08.0	I was traveling a lot more than I would have wanted to,
1:11.0	although they were some cool stuff that I traveled for, I still wasn't consistently in the garden as much as I would have liked.
1:17.0	So that changed the things that I grew.
1:20.0	I grew lower maintenance crops. I grew crops that I could kind of just leave for a week and it wasn't a big deal and
1:26.8	There were gaps in my garden throughout spring summer throughout fall winter and it just wasn't exactly what I would have hoped.
1:35.0	Now I still had some incredible successes in the garden to the point of actually living off of my
1:40.1	garden in June for the Apocalypse Grow Challenge. I survived by growing 100
1:45.0	pounds of potatoes, various other vegetables, fishing and foraging, so that was a
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