What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the epic gardening podcast today.

Excuse me. We're going to talk about bio-intensive planting specifically for

greens in a raised bed and so this is a question that I have for

myself because I have a bed out in my front yard right now that's all Arugula. I love Arugula

it's one of my favorite greens and I absolutely love it when I mix it with a little

olive oil, a little parmesan cheese just to cut down on that spiciness, but recipes are for maybe another episode. What we're going to talk

about is how do I get the most out of my bed right? So let's imagine that I've got a

four foot by four foot bed and I'm growing arrugala or any sort of green that has a standard

size when it's an adult. Well you might be tempted to follow the seed packet what's on the back of the seed packet,

what's on the back of the seed packet,

but that might not be the best approach

when it comes to squeezing the most out of your garden.

And so what I noticed for myself is the first time I ever planted Arugala, I spaced it as per the seed packet.

And what that did is it made it so that when an Arugola plant was next to another arrugal plant at an adult

size the leaves the very end of each leaf of each plant was we're touching each other

but just barely so there's quite a bit of

open space in between those two plants and so what I realized is I could

drastically decrease that amount of space while not losing a lot of the upsides of that

spacing. So what I did is let's say you have a four foot by four foot bed.

First of all one of the things that people

will do is they'll they'll plant in on the edges. They'll plant a little bit too

far in on their edges because I don't know what it is. Is maybe some psychological thing where we want to, you know, not plant too close to the edge?

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