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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Top 3 Beginner Mistakes To Avoid

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

40% of new gardeners don't garden for a second season...which is a huge shame! In this episode, John Kohler shares what he believes are the top three mistakes beginners make that sour them on gardening...avoid these! Learn More: Growing Your Greens OKRaw Discount Juicers Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone Kevin from Epic Gardening here today? We're again back with

0:04.3

John Kohler from Growing Your Greens and you know I've talked about this before a lot of

0:09.5

the mistakes that gardeners make are a hundred percent avoidable but some of the early mistakes that gardener can make are 100% avoidable but some of the early mistakes that

0:14.4

Gardner can make before they kind of get the green thumb and they get that bug in

0:18.7

them can put them off from gardening forever which is a real shame, and it's my mission, it's also John's

0:24.9

missing to create as many perennial gardeners as we can.

0:29.2

And so how can you avoid some of these mistakes and what are those mistakes? That's what we're talking about today on the

0:33.6

podcast. So let's let John take it away. All right, this is John Kohler with Grownier Greens. Today I'll be talking about three top

0:40.6

mistakes you guys could make in your garden and why you may never

0:43.8

garden again if you make these mistakes right and I want to start off with the

0:47.4

number one is watering watering is probably the most important thing we need to give the

0:51.7

plants enough water and not too much

0:53.8

water. I know a lot of you guys out there love your plants and like you think if you water it more

0:58.0

that means and translates into you love them more. Not necessarily because if you're overwatering they're really hating it and they could lose their life. You know, I've known people that killed Rosemary and sage and if you know those plants you know that they actually don't like it too wet they actually would prefer it on the

1:12.9

drier side and don't need as much water you know other plants like lettuce may

1:17.2

like a little bit more wet than dry you know they're gonna dry out

1:20.0

pretty fast you know suckilins of. Aloe vera I love growing

1:23.4

aloe vera you know they don't need as much water either so you need to find the

1:26.7

proper water to give your plants and how can you know well by observation look at

1:31.8

your plants right if it looks happy if the leaves are

1:34.9

just folding out nice and erect then that means they're pretty happening if they're

1:38.2

drooping hey you could be underwater and could be overwarding get a simple moisture

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