What's up everyone? Welcome back to the podcast. I hope you're doing well out there wherever you are in the world.

I am in Los Angeles today and that's because pretty soon I will be in Mexico City and so all the

podcasts from now until the next Wednesday are pre-recorded so I hope you

enjoy them I will be in limited contact, enjoying some Mexican food, and exploring

some of the urban gardens down in Mexico City, which there are quite a bit of actually.

Today's question comes from a friend who is going from a smaller

garden and he's upsizing to a much larger garden. And his question is this,

how do you make the work doable in a short amount of time in respect to garden chores and time management?

What things can we eliminate that a small gardener does that might not be applicable, cost effective, or time effective to someone going from a small garden to a larger

garden.

So basically he's saying, let's say I tripled the size of my garden.

Would that triple the size of my work or are there things that I can stop doing or do any more efficient manner?

I think this is an important question because when we're gardening or really

doing anything in life it's important to think about if what we're doing needs to be done.

So there's something called the Do Something Syndrome, where people, organizations, companies, etc.

They all think that doing something is better than doing nothing.

Well, that's not necessarily always true.

You can see this in the medical field all the time where doctors will overprescribe medications or they will

advise on a procedure simply because the patient seems like she or he wants something to be done when perhaps doing nothing and letting the body

heal was the correct choice. Now I'm not a doctor of course but there are clear examples of that

in medicine and many other fields.

And the same goes for gardening.

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