Oh, not at all! You want to have enough but without making it too hard for the sprouts to reach the surface. Here, let me-- [She presses on the mound a little to flatten it a bit] Like this.

Did you get it? Maybe I'm not explaining things too well -- I lived all my life in a little village, so this sort of thing feels so natural to me.

[Therefore she never had to truly explain to anyone before any of this]