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In other words, an answer to a question that you have asked.

Okay.

Getting on to next is your main crop where those are your crops that you're going to, you know, you still have to take care of the garden, but you're going to be harvesting maybe a few times a year or some things even once a year, like say winter squash. You know, you're really out there just checking on it and then you've got a harvest time. And so that can go out a little further, but you still want it in a good location a good sunny location as much as possible

and somewhere in your path of travel that it just doesn't life gets busy we're trying to do a lot

and sometimes people put the garden way off to the side somewhere and it's easily neglected you

don't mean to you don't intend to but it's easily neglected so again try to keep it in path to travel in your zone one if you're familiar with permaculture zoning.

We have had that in a couple places we've lived. We had, you know, we inherited a garden space.

And so as we moved in, we're kind of like, okay, there's the garden, we're going to plant in it. And it was so far out of view, out of path, out of everything, it was just hard to even use anything out of it

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