Dda da da da. Welcome to the New Year everyone. How's it going? Kevin from Epic Gardening here.

Hope you had a fantastic New Year's Eve, I guess. Today is New Year's,

hope you're enjoying the New Year, and I I guess. Today is New Year's. Hope you're enjoying the new year.

And I hope you have big plans for your garden in 2018. I know that I certainly do.

And speaking of plans, first of all, we have a new announcement on the podcast. Yes, that is right. After I think

265 episodes, we actually have a sponsor for the next couple of months and this is a company that I use I love and I would never take a sponsor unless I actually believed in the product and used it myself because I really don't appreciate or believe in people who

Just take sponsorships for money. I mean the podcast is a labor of love. It's nice to have a sponsor,

and it's especially nice because I already like the company

and I use them in my garden.

And so let's talk about it for a quick second,

and then we'll get into the rest of the episode,

which is about how to plan a garden what are some rules and

tips for planning a garden so today's sponsor is going to be Garden Maker

Natural's so the cool thing about Garden Maker Natural's they they're a fertilizer company, but they are a natural organic fertilizer company and they have complete ingredient transparency, meaning you know every single thing that's going into that fertilizer.

And what you can do is you can get these signature blends,

which are made for specific purpose.

Let's say vegetables and herbs or fruit and berries.

Or you can just literally go on to the site and say, all right, well I want 10%

corn gluten, 15% cottonseed meal, 15% fish meal, and you just add all the ingredients that they have available until you hit 100%

and they will actually just fill a custom mix of fertilizer from organic natural components

to your exact ratio which is pretty darn special

pretty darn neat so you get the precision of maybe let's say a more conventional

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