What is going on everyone?

What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening

podcast. Hope you're doing awesome today. Today we are joined again by

Darrell Byers, author of the New Gardner's Handbook, which is out soon, so check out the

podcast description if you're interested.

And Darryl's also a garden instructor at New York Botanical Garden.

At this point in the week, we've talked about quite a bit as far as gardening

building blocks if it's your first time gardening or you're a beginner so today

we're going to be following up we're talking talking about, okay, our plants are in the ground. We've transplanted them appropriately. We've set them out for success. But how do we actually water them and feed them throughout the course of their life? And I think, correct me if I'm wrong here,

Darryl, but I know that this is where a lot of gardeners

will go wrong because they do potentially just

too much to their plants.

Yes, yes.

Water is the key for establishing all new plants.

That's like your, that's the main place where you can make a mistake and you can overdo it and even more frequently it gets under done basically.

One of the things going, all this kind of builds on itself,

so we've been talked, we talked about, you know,

how plants grow, roots and shoots, and the soil

and all this other stuff,

and sort of understanding the water holding capacity of your soil becomes really important,

knowing that as you build a good soil by adding organic matter to it, you are actually

improving the water holding ability of that

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