What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we are

30 something days away from spring. So the first day of spring officially is

March 20th.

Are you ready?

I'm ready.

Well, I'm getting ready.

And that's exactly what we're talking about on this podcast today.

We are talking about how to prepare your garden for spring planting and there's going to be a lot of episodes I'll be doing on

Getting ready for spring and so this is just going to touch one little aspect of something you should be thinking about when it comes to getting your

garden prepped for spring.

Before we talk about that, we're going to talk about Garden Maker Naturals who are the sponsor

for the podcast.

They make organic natural fertilizers that they custom mix to your specifications if you so desire,

although you can also use their signature blends. I personally enjoy the all-purpose.

That's the one that I will treat most of my garden beds with out in the front yard

unless I'm growing something specialty or specific. So if that's interesting to you,

W.W. gardenmaker.com. Okay, so a question that's often asked is what's the best way to get my garden beds

ready for the first crops of the year and so there's a lot of time before

spring happens that that you should be using to prepare your garden beds.

Loosening that soil, building that fertility.

So the first thing you should do is a few weeks before you plan to actually plant into your new

beds or your old beds that have been left over the winter is if you decided to plant any cover crops, it's time to chop and drop those bad boys.

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