Today I figured we should do a story time on some of the mistakes I've made in my gardening journey. Just some basics that I have really messed up and they've caused a lot of issues.

The first thing I'll say is the biggest mistake is a mistake in which you keep paying the price for it. So it's one thing if you go out into the garden and you

like miss prune a plant and oh no a branch got cut off of one tomato plant that

had some fruit on it and now that fruit is not going to be

perfectly developed. That is certainly a mistake, but it's pretty recoverable from

because the whole plant isn't destroyed and it really is sort of an isolated incident.

Whereas the first mistake I'll share with you is an improper respect of soil.

I got a soil mix in my early early days at the old Epic Gardening Front Yard

Garden and I got it in bulk I got three yards maybe four yards of that soil

which is quite a bit I mean that would fill up 10 raised beds probably.

And I thought it was as advertised, a 50-50 mix of screened topsoil and compost. Now upon current knowledge I now know that was at least an 80-20

topsoil compost blend that was very far from advertised and so I should have done my due diligence a lot better because I ended

up having to dig out half of my raised beds because the clay was simply so compacted.

It may as well have been just trying to grow in straight up topsoil that had been

barely sifted I will say I mean it was sifted to maybe a half inch instead of a quarter inch it just

really wasn't good and so that was a huge

mistake because every single day from the day I received that soil I paid for that

mistake. In a similar fashion, starting seeds incorrectly or sloppily is a mistake that your plants pay for every single day they're alive.

And so make sure, and I have a whole guide on YouTube, starting seeds indoors, under grow lights, on exactly how to do that and get perfectly healthy seedlings no matter what. So that is huge. I mean you really you wouldn't raise a child

from zero to three and mess it up and then and then perfectly parent it from

you know like three to 18. It doesn't make a lot of sense to live life that way or approach life that way. And so you would not do that with your plants. So that's something I certainly did. It's like, oh, they're resilient. They'll be fine. And it turns out they're more susceptible to pests, more susceptible to a failure to thrive,

lots of different issues there that you really don't want in the garden.

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