Don’t let your enthusiasm for spring cause you to plant more than you can handle. Everything you plant comes with a laundry list of maintenance tasks that includes watering, weeding, feeding, pruning and harvesting. Start out small with a few rows or a small bed, and expand from there.
5. Planting too closely
Why leave 3 feet between your tomato plants when you can squeeze them closer? The reason is that they’re going to grow and fill in very quickly. Plants that are too tightly spaced can’t get enough sun and air circulation, which can result in disease and a low harvest.
6. Ignoring maintenance
Without regular water and food, plants stress out and shut down. With too much competition from weeds for water and nutrients, your plants will not grow properly and will yield less. Weeding, feeding and watering are requirements that can’t be ignored.
7. Not putting up a fence
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