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Hey there! and welcome back to

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the podcast. It probably goes without

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saying that spring is probably the

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busiest time in the garden. How

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they do, we keep all of

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our task straight without missing something

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important. Our default, if we're honest,

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is probably just to focus on

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at the lowest hanging fruit no

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pun intended that we know we

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have to get done test flight,

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preparing the guardian space and planting.

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Those are usually our primary focus

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is this time of year and

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for good reason, but if we

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get too carried away with the

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obvious tasks we sometimes have missed

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the not so obvious. Tasks that

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are still very important. So today I'm

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going to give you a Spring Garden

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checklist so that you can take a

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mental note of what you've already completed

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which would be great, but also maybe

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you'll learn a few things that you

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still need to do and not forget

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about. Welcome

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to the Beginners Garden Podcast! I'm

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Jill and I'm so glad you're

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We get started to the park yesterday.

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of too quick things. The first is

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that we are getting ready to do

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the third of ours series of workshops

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through the year. In April I believe

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it's April twenty fifth, we are going

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not only how to grow your own

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You can grow everything you need are

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almost everything you need in your garden.

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It's also going to be talking about

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these things because not everything grows at

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the same time and I give you

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recipes that I turn to for my

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Know. Another thing I want to tell you

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about as we're talking about the Spring. Garden

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Checklist It's I have a full checklist

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that's for free for every season Spring,

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Summer, Fall, and winter. It does not

3:49

depend on your zone. It's definitely more

3:51

of a seasonal checklist and if you

3:53

haven't downloaded that I have the link

3:56

in the description or in the show

3:58

notes or even go to Journey Would

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kill.net/garden sign up and you can get

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that in that were you have something

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that you can download and print that

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has. A full season or task

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list not just for spring, but for

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all the seasons and there's actually more tasks

4:14

on that then we're going to talk about

4:16

today right now and going to be

4:18

focusing mostly on tasks for one that I

4:20

want to make sure that you've already got

4:23

these done in if you don't need to

4:25

try to get them done pretty quickly

4:27

and then we'll move on to the second

4:29

section, which is things that you want to

4:31

do a fair away from where the things

4:34

you want to have implants probably before summer

4:36

before the harvest begins in accounting. Felt

4:38

blessed to start out with things that you

4:41

want to make sure are already done. These

4:43

are things that I hope it's you can

4:45

say. Yup. And then I got that the

4:47

If: for some reason it slips your mind.

4:50

that's why I'm doing the parker said a

4:52

so that you can make sure you didn't

4:54

pretty quickly that the first thing that I

4:56

would make sure that you haven't forgotten about

4:59

is probably not going to come as any

5:01

surprise you. but that is to make sure

5:03

that you have your garden plan completed and

5:05

it doesn't have to be a real detailed

5:08

plan, especially. If maybe you're just starting

5:10

out in, you're just starting to listen

5:12

to these podcasts episodes. Maybe it's just

5:14

a matter of what you want to

5:16

plant in. When you want to plant,

5:18

that's the bare basics and that is

5:20

the bare minimum of what I want

5:22

to. Make sure that you know that

5:24

way you know exactly what you're going

5:26

to plant in your garden and when

5:28

now. I would also recommend that you

5:30

have a rough estimate of what you

5:32

want to plant in the fall and

5:34

even when now your brand new gardener

5:36

you may have no clue what. To

5:38

do with this. and if that's the

5:40

case, we will leak some blog post

5:42

and podcast episodes in the description so

5:44

that you can look back on that

5:46

as far as far gardening. But if

5:48

you sir Percy then you may want

5:51

to hold off on that right now.

5:53

But if it's not your first started,

5:55

I really recommend that you get a

5:57

rough estimate of your fall garden now

5:59

and the reason is because you are

6:01

going her want to play and and

6:03

even start planting some of your fall

6:05

crops in July and July is actually

6:07

a time of year when you're really

6:09

busy with other things. You're going to

6:11

be busy with watering and waiting and

6:13

harvesting and pests and disease and existed

6:15

just in general. and it's really hard

6:17

to plan a fall garden in the

6:19

middle of all that. That's why I

6:21

really recommend that Now when you're not

6:23

super super busy you get an idea

6:25

what you want to plant for the

6:27

fall. Now the good news as many

6:29

of the same. Crops that you're growing

6:31

in the spring you can plant again in

6:33

the carrots and rid it's and greens and

6:35

briefly courage and say you could just basically.

6:38

Copy paste earnest all of. Those crafts

6:40

and plan on planting those again in

6:42

the fall. But ultimately the first thing

6:44

I would like to make sure that

6:46

you do is have some kind of

6:48

garden plan completed right now. That way

6:50

it'll make the rest of your garden

6:52

season go a lot more. Stayed with.

6:55

The. Second thing that I hope that

6:57

you will get done. This probably goes

6:59

without saying that if you are acquiring

7:02

or putting in new raised beds, make

7:04

certain get those built. Make sure that

7:06

you get them filled. You want to

7:08

have them ready to go whenever it

7:10

is time to start planting. I talked

7:13

about how I did this with a

7:15

new kitchen garden in a recent You

7:17

Tube video because I had six brand

7:19

new raised beds and it took a

7:21

long time to get them off filled

7:24

and I was very strategic about. Which

7:26

ones I filled first based on where I

7:28

was planting first serve. you need a visual

7:30

on that? I recommend you take a look

7:32

at that you tube video just because it

7:34

shows you where where I started and why

7:36

and in what was the last one that

7:38

I filled in. Why and it'll give you

7:40

had have an idea of of why that's

7:42

important and other thing is if you've been

7:44

gardening a while this definitely happened to me

7:46

last year is you might have some raised

7:48

beds that are falling apart for some reason.

7:50

I has a large race bad I think

7:52

it was a three by eighteen that I

7:54

had built out as. An old fence

7:56

several years ago. Guinness? maybe seven

7:59

years. The go in that fits.

8:01

With. Built like as a fence and two thousand and

8:04

three so this would was was old. Even that was

8:06

it was treated lumber, it was old and it was

8:08

then it wasn't your regular to buy forth. And.

8:11

So that bed with starting to fall apart so

8:13

last year we repaired it instead of instead of

8:15

scary thing at all he ended up repairing it

8:17

in said that's something that you wanna do to

8:19

Now this is in a are the things that

8:22

can apply to everybody but if you have any

8:24

kind of repairs like that that you need to

8:26

get done before you plant in or something you

8:28

want to get them. And

8:30

when I talk about filling your race

8:32

bad, obviously that's something that you want

8:34

to get done before you plant. That's

8:37

a no brainer for sure. But also

8:39

I would recommend that with fat or

8:41

in addition to that. Make.

8:43

Sure you have it. somehow. Source

8:45

of compost. For. Your used

8:47

throughout the season if you are growing

8:49

and raised beds especially if you're going

8:51

in News raised beds and you can

8:53

see this happening in my Kitchen Garden

8:55

series on you tube Every video you

8:57

can see the level of the soil

9:00

is dropping and mean it's like a

9:02

daily process. It it happens is when

9:04

you're filling in the race and you're

9:06

filling it with organic matter at the

9:08

bottom like I do is just going

9:10

happen. So having compost already on site

9:12

to top that bad off whenever you're

9:14

transitioning from one crop to another. Having

9:16

that handy. Especially. During

9:19

the middle of the growing season it's going to said you

9:21

so much time. Not. Only that,

9:23

but compost is always good if you

9:25

are putting new soil into a container

9:27

and you're trying to refresh maybe old

9:29

container soil, adding some new potting mix

9:31

with some old potting mix with a

9:33

little that a compost and then sometimes

9:35

you just want to add compost to

9:37

the top. There's all always going to

9:39

be uses for compost and so if

9:41

you don't have a ready made source,

9:43

if you haven't made your own and

9:46

it's what you want to use then

9:48

I would recommend just having some compost

9:50

handy. I like to buy it in

9:52

bulk. And get cubic yards just

9:54

piles him in my property and being

9:56

able to go in and borrow from

9:58

it whenever I. The and obviously that's

10:01

not gonna happen for everyone if you don't

10:03

have that the lane to be able to

10:05

do that but maybe you find a bad

10:07

to mix that you like. Having a couple

10:09

of extra ones of those will save you

10:12

a lotta time during the course of the

10:14

growing season. The next task that I recommend

10:16

that you make sure to get done is

10:18

to decide which areas you're going to grow

10:20

in a vertical manner and make sure you

10:22

have the trailers is secured. And when I

10:25

say secured I mean you want to decision

10:27

made on what kind of challenge you're going

10:29

to use base on the crop it's going

10:31

to grow and then I recommend to go

10:33

ahead and get them built, gets and set

10:36

up. You may or may not want she

10:38

put him in place depending on what's on.

10:40

as tall as you have you may like

10:42

for tomatoes if you're going to be doing

10:44

a large cage and I do quite a

10:47

bit or if you're gonna do a Florida

10:49

we've Alive hands those don't actually get put

10:51

into place until after you play the tomato.

10:53

but if you're growing poll leans a lot

10:55

of times what you want to do is

10:58

have the trellis in place when you're planting.

11:00

So when the been start to sprout then

11:02

they immediately concert to grow. That was the case

11:04

when I was growing peas in my new

11:06

kitchen garden this year and I had to

11:08

put a new trellis. Actually ended up planting the

11:10

peace but as soon as I saw them

11:12

germinate I'm like I got to get that

11:14

trellis in place and I ended up using a

11:17

flat cattle panel trellis ethics to t posts

11:19

and as papau on Instagram if you're interested

11:21

in taking a look at that. There.

11:23

Are lots of trellis ideas and I

11:25

have a guide actually a free guide

11:27

if you're interested in that will pick

11:29

a link in the showed us if

11:32

you're interested in different ideas for trial

11:34

thing because what decision I make when

11:36

it can see what trellis I have

11:38

depends on what kind of crop on

11:40

going to grow because different crops like

11:42

different trellis as but the whole point

11:44

is may have your crops are going

11:46

to need some kind of a support

11:48

if you're going poll leans cucumbers, tomatoes

11:51

of any kind even peppers. Now they.

11:53

Don't need a huge amount of chelsea, but

11:55

they will need some kind of support. Eggplants

11:57

You need to have that decision already made.

12:00

And hopefully you will already have the materials

12:02

acquired. It's so that you can have them

12:04

in place when you need them because the

12:06

last thing you want to do and it's

12:08

happened to me before. His.

12:10

Put this off and then your plants

12:12

get so tall they need the support

12:14

and then a windstorm, fans and couples

12:16

and over and and you just lost

12:18

a whole still a peppers and that's

12:21

definitely happened to me before seat if

12:23

we want to do that before you

12:25

need it, The next thing

12:27

it's hopefully you've already done as again to

12:29

help you can just say check the South

12:31

I got this is the have all of

12:33

your seeds purchased for the season again. This

12:35

is something like my garden plan that I

12:38

like to do at the very beginning of

12:40

the season to have it all together and

12:42

ready but also. Get. Your

12:44

Seeds organize. This is something that you

12:46

may think as if you're not naturally

12:48

and organized person that line new method

12:51

that I'm using this year that I'm

12:53

absolutely loving. It was actually a tip

12:55

from Jin of Garden Girls she gave

12:57

me last year on up on the

13:00

podcast back in the summer and that

13:02

was to buy and over the door

13:04

you organizer and then that the seeds

13:06

in there and I have that in

13:09

my where my grow room is a

13:11

So easy I had them organized by.

13:13

What type they are and it has made

13:15

getting seeds in and out so much simpler than

13:17

the other method that I use use I

13:19

used to use photobox with I think it's a

13:22

great idea still that just being able to

13:24

see them because the she organizer has a clear

13:26

front in people get them in and out.

13:29

How such a great up level for

13:31

me that I really like that. So

13:33

much better that having your seeds already

13:35

purchased I'm talking about spring seed. Some

13:37

receive an all seats, have them all

13:39

purchase for the whole season and having

13:42

them organize is gonna save you more

13:44

time than you realize what it actually

13:46

comes to planting the seeds. The.

13:48

Next thing I want you to take

13:50

a look at his to evaluate the

13:53

tools that you already have and maybe

13:55

tools that you need. There is nothing

13:57

more frustrating than going out and your

14:00

guard in trying to do a job

14:02

and realizing that number one. The.

14:04

Tools you have are not cutting it,

14:06

they're not working very well or never

14:08

to. You can't find them because they're

14:10

not organized that try to get the

14:13

tools that you need organize the ones

14:15

that I would recommend. That.

14:17

I use in and actually grab all the

14:19

time. I'm going to give you a list

14:21

here so the first thing is a trial.

14:23

This is what I use more than anything

14:25

you can get a large trial that's good

14:27

for. Digging. Planting holes especially

14:29

for a larger, large, larger crops. But

14:31

I also like to have a small

14:34

trial either something like a hurry hurry

14:36

knife or when. I. Did a

14:38

soil test with soil kit. I don't know

14:40

if they do this anymore but when they

14:42

might but I chose the kit with the

14:45

trolls the fact that they offered and it

14:47

was a very skinny trial and I use

14:49

that all the time. I use that with

14:51

my green thought planters that all a to

14:53

face is a few inches across but it's

14:55

It's more curved than the hurry so it

14:57

actually can scoop up dirt. I use that

14:59

probably more than anything. Like I said, I

15:01

don't know if they sell him anymore but.

15:04

All that to say you'll definitely need

15:06

a trial printers is also something that

15:08

you need and to me that kind

15:10

of confusing because printers you think of

15:12

pruning but not necessarily. I mean I

15:14

used my little snippets which may be

15:16

there more called snips and printers. I

15:18

don't know all that jargon I get

15:20

confused with, but I use those every

15:22

single day. I use them to harvest

15:24

my lettuces, I use them too thin,

15:26

my carrots and then my feelings and

15:28

the sniffs are definitely what I use

15:31

most. And then toward the middle of

15:33

the season when I'm harvesting larger. Things

15:35

like tomatoes and peppers and and zucchini and

15:37

things like that. I'll have a larger heavy

15:39

duty printers and so far I've tried lots

15:41

of different brands. So far I'm enjoying the

15:43

Cell Cope routers the best. I got them

15:46

from Epic Gardening and I have. I'll have

15:48

a link to that the Senate's if you're

15:50

interested in it. I still want to use

15:52

them for a couple more years because the

15:55

barn owl printers that I used to for

15:57

several years or really liked them and how

15:59

they just rushed. It's how bad I couldn't

16:01

revive them and then obviously the longevity. oh

16:03

be something I'll be looking at with Selkoe

16:06

but I really do this okay operators bet

16:08

those are some things that are some tools

16:10

and I use all that her in. Another

16:13

tool that I use. it. Not necessarily a

16:15

tool, but it's something that came in so

16:17

handy. Cirrus ways. The Farmers Defense sleeves are.

16:19

honestly didn't know that I would use them

16:22

as much as I did, but I don't

16:24

know if you're like me. but when you

16:26

go to harvest especially if you're harvesting something

16:28

like zucchini or okay are a thing with

16:30

leaves. If I had short sleeves on I

16:32

would always get itchy. And the Farmers Defense

16:34

fleas are really easy to put on but

16:36

they don't make you high a white. My

16:38

husband liked that long sleeves on him a

16:40

lot of at last leaves on it's not

16:43

evolved. Agree that bad, but the farmers

16:45

defense leaves actually wix away sweat and

16:47

it makes it where I don't feel

16:49

hot at all. and then it does

16:51

have some protection factor so I am

16:53

so grateful for those I'm I'm using

16:55

though was all summer long when I'm

16:57

out in the garden and harvesting. and

16:59

then another thing that always kind of.

17:01

Forget. About until Harvest is making

17:04

sure that I have enough harvest

17:06

baskets and then a see mike

17:08

as a simple thing, but when

17:10

you have to go harvest quite

17:12

a bit. And you run out

17:14

of things to put your harvest in an that's

17:16

something that. That. Can be frustrating

17:18

So I have and unless a different

17:20

things in the past I really like

17:22

the rule gardening apron for many of

17:25

my harvest that are not like. A

17:27

cute harbors the am when I was.

17:30

When. I was doing me know bushels of tomatoes

17:32

at once obviously. and aprons not gonna work with

17:34

that unless you do a little bit in an

17:36

empty at which I've done with that works well

17:38

but I'm. A. Wagon would be

17:41

good if you had a huge harvest

17:43

but if you are growing a smaller

17:45

garden the room apron may be just

17:47

perfect. Also I have gone to i

17:49

don't do this much but I went

17:51

antique something one day and I got

17:54

this beautiful basket editing antique shop that

17:56

it's a wicker basket and it's perfect

17:58

for harvest all it is. Hey, whatever

18:00

you want to use for harvesting I would

18:02

say to try to get it ready so

18:04

that you can have it at the Handy

18:07

When it comes to having to get your

18:09

harpists out of your garden, which is exciting

18:11

to think about right now, right? because the

18:13

harvest is coming. Another thing to have handy

18:16

is any kind of fertilizers that he planned

18:18

to use in your garden. To be honest,

18:20

I use very few fertilizers, but I will

18:22

tell you the ones that I keep on

18:24

hand and I use most frequently. Number one

18:27

is organic Raz. Obviously, I'd that I always

18:29

have organic grab. Handy to be able

18:31

to you throughout the season, but

18:33

that's not actually a fertilizer that is

18:35

a growth stimulant, so I'm using

18:37

it usually alongside other fertilizers when

18:39

needed. What I will use with for

18:42

those actual fertilizers is I'll use

18:44

number One, a granular, slow release fertilizer

18:46

I like to use as Bouma

18:48

Plant Tone at the beginning of the

18:50

year because Plant Town has a

18:52

little bit higher nitrogen, so I

18:54

like to use that when I want

18:57

to promote leafy growth but then

18:59

toward the middle. Of the year or

19:01

when I'm planting something like tomatoes are potatoes.

19:03

I like to use Guardian Town because it

19:05

has a little bit higher of phosphorus which

19:08

is good for those brooding and routing crops

19:10

and also experimenting with a slow really fertilizer

19:12

called Guy a green that was recommended by

19:14

Jonah when he was talking to us about

19:17

growing micro greens and so I bought that

19:19

actually to grow my for greens and I've

19:21

been using it in place of plant tone

19:24

lately. I'm not sure that can sell a

19:26

huge difference yet, but I'm experimenting with that

19:28

just to see. I'm. So those

19:30

are the flow release fertilizers and I'll have.

19:33

Sometimes I'll have worm castings handy especially when

19:35

I'm when I'm putting up and then I

19:37

like to have liquid fertilizer. Also, adult use

19:39

it as time actually don't use it at

19:42

all in my actual garden or my raised

19:44

beds because when your soil fertility is heavy

19:46

and nurse and it has and I mean

19:48

heavy as in saturated enough and you have

19:51

a good about compost. I haven't found the

19:53

need to fertilise my crops in the ground

19:55

or in raised beds, but I do find

19:58

the need to do it in country. There

20:00

are in my greenstock that I want

20:02

to have a liquid fertilizer he any

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20:26

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23:10

Years and I can count of because

23:12

we get so many spring rains. Typically,

23:14

I don't even think about irrigation because

23:16

I don't need to. It's the blessing

23:18

of the spring. I guess we're where

23:20

I'm located for the most part and

23:22

I don't think about irrigation until oh

23:24

shoot, it hasn't rained in a week

23:27

and now we're at ninety and I

23:29

better get an irrigation plan in place.

23:31

A fab, right? I've learned from my

23:33

mistake to some degree of this year

23:35

for sure. When I was building my

23:37

new kitchen garden, I put my irrigation

23:39

and. Before they've implanted, because I knew that

23:42

Bethlehem needed to do. With

23:44

are you using like the dirt in

23:46

a minute? Thirteen grades which would be

23:48

my number one choice for raised beds

23:50

so easy and self active. Or you

23:53

use and thing night drip tape or

23:55

dripped lines. I used both of those

23:57

in different parts of my garden. right

23:59

now I'm trying to train this know

24:01

my race as to garden and minutes

24:03

but some of my ground beds I'll

24:06

do drip paper drip lines also. if

24:08

you want a hands off approach with

24:10

whatever method it is then I recommend

24:12

getting a timer and getting that ordered

24:14

and getting it set up that way

24:16

when you do certain needing to irrigate

24:19

your crops you can have it ready

24:21

to go on a timer. On.

24:23

Also I forgot to mention and Green

24:25

Sought now has an irrigation system. I

24:28

use that for the first time last

24:30

summer and I loved it called the

24:32

Greenstock Spring so that would be something

24:34

again that she would want to have

24:36

in place before you actually need it.

24:38

So all that to say, I recommend

24:41

having your irrigation plan in mind before

24:43

you actually need it because when you

24:45

need to surrendering your guard and you'll

24:47

be grateful that she took those extra

24:49

steps and you put them in place

24:51

into the made to. The

24:54

next thing is I would recommend

24:57

it's you would go ahead in

24:59

acquire any kind of covers you

25:01

might need for your garden. year.

25:04

Now I'm talking about covers. Their

25:06

basically three different divisions of covers

25:08

that I recommend that you have

25:11

a handy. wine is insects netting,

25:13

one is floating bro cover and

25:15

one is shade cloth. Eleni explain

25:18

the differences between the three if

25:20

you're new, insect netting is not

25:22

going to capture. Any heat

25:25

is basically. A

25:27

lot of people use tool which is like

25:29

bridal veil so you can picture that, but

25:31

I don't recommend that because I did use

25:34

that one year I thought it would be.

25:36

I think I bought the whole hobby lobby

25:38

full of tool that year but it is

25:40

so flimsy and it tore so fast in.

25:43

The purpose of that is to keep flying

25:45

insects out of your garden and if you

25:47

rip it. It. Mean, there's nothing you

25:49

can do. I mean, maybe if you're a good

25:51

seamstress, you could pass. It may be. but. That's.

25:54

Not me. So I actually bought insect

25:56

netting that's designed for that. not it

25:58

can read this. You're not. Therefore, but

26:00

I found it so much more resilient than

26:02

the The Tool. But the point of insect

26:05

netting is to keep the insects off of

26:07

your crops to begin with. and that is

26:09

one. Sure, Fire Way. If

26:12

you do it right, you have to have

26:14

it all. Make sure that there's no places

26:16

where they can get in. That is a

26:19

way to keep insects out of your garden

26:21

in an organic way without having to use

26:23

chemicals. Floating Roque hovers will actually trap heat,

26:25

so floating brokers what you would want to

26:27

use in the beginning part of the spring

26:30

or early part of the fall to be

26:32

able to extend your season to protect from

26:34

frost to allow a little bit more insulation.

26:36

If you are a pass your average less

26:39

prostate now you probably don't need that until

26:41

the fall, so you. Can you know put

26:43

that offer later? but that's something that

26:45

again if you have that early freeze

26:47

or that late frost it's really nice

26:49

to have in Hindi and then shade

26:51

cloth may be the thing that she

26:53

want to. The next thing besides insect

26:55

netting that she want to make sure

26:57

to acquire status. Has become

27:00

to me more and more unnecessary.

27:02

It seems like the hotter and

27:04

hotter that we get each summer

27:06

because making such a cloth will

27:08

make a difference in the heat

27:10

that our crops experience. Even crops

27:12

like peppers that are generally very

27:14

heat tolerate can benefit from some

27:16

afternoon shade. I learned that from

27:18

my Texas friends and that's something

27:20

that he want to have handy

27:22

when. Number. One when you do

27:24

have those heat waves and I've noticed that

27:26

is that is not confined to the south,

27:28

you can be in the north and have

27:30

the heat waves, and your crops may actually

27:32

be even more susceptible because they're not as

27:34

used to the heat like those of us

27:36

in the south, so having the same cloth

27:38

is really helpful. As for that, But

27:41

also I probably use my said cloth and

27:43

the most in the late part of the

27:45

summer when I'm planting fall crops because as

27:48

fall crops like the cool weather but we

27:50

have to place them in the height of

27:52

the summer so planting them below say cloth

27:55

bother acclimating can make a big difference in

27:57

whether they die from the heat or they

27:59

make it in a nail will produce a

28:01

father did So those are the things that

28:04

I hope that you have already done and

28:06

if you have it make note to get

28:08

them done Asap. The next thing I want

28:11

to tell you is just a list of

28:13

a few things that his. Plan.

28:15

To do these as you're going through

28:17

the early spring. Number one, if you

28:20

planted garlic in the fall you want

28:22

to make sure in guess the we've

28:24

cleared from your garlic bed. what will

28:26

happen is that if you haven't most

28:29

your garlic deeply in the fall and

28:31

even if you have some from that

28:33

most breaks down over the wintertime those

28:35

early spring late winner we've are going

28:38

to be the first ones to pop

28:40

up in any kind of crop in

28:42

that garlic family, the allium family. whether

28:44

it's. Garlic or onions. They don't like competition

28:47

and sell the more weeds that are around

28:49

them. Them worth going to affect their growth.

28:51

It was that the bulb size so make

28:53

sure and we'd your garlic Bad: If you've

28:55

already planted onions, do the same thing for

28:58

onions and then mulch them. You want to

29:00

mulch them so that we've they're not a

29:02

problem for the rest of the season. That

29:05

brings me to the next thing you

29:07

want to do it acquire of mulch

29:09

with whatever most you decide to use

29:11

whether be wood chips or should it

29:13

leaves. if it's trade leaves you probably

29:15

already had it from more the fall

29:17

but which had a is what I

29:19

is with my those who for many

29:21

years in it's probably my second favorite

29:23

after shredded leave straw would be another

29:26

option but whatever you want to use

29:28

acquire it and have it handy because

29:30

as soon as your crops get to

29:32

i would say about six inches tall.

29:34

And as long as the soil has

29:36

warmed up, you want to get your

29:39

ground covered because most is so important

29:41

for regulating temperature, regulating moisture control both

29:43

with heavy rains and with drought. A

29:45

Most garden is a healthier gardens and

29:47

make sure you have that most handy

29:50

the next thing. If you are planning

29:52

on using any kind of organics insecticide,

29:54

I would recommend it. Should go ahead

29:56

and acquire it that way when you

29:58

start seeing problematic. You

30:01

want to treat for you, have it

30:03

ready to have to go like oh

30:05

man I gotta go to that. they're

30:07

gonna go into town Mcgonigal soaring out

30:09

to get to set you want to

30:11

have it handy? I don't use much,

30:13

hardly any really on my garden but

30:16

the three that I keep handy when

30:18

needed is number one Bt Bacillus or

30:20

and she insists this is for worms

30:22

specifically cabbage worms but it also works

30:24

on army worms and made a horn

30:26

Worms Any kind of worms basically you

30:28

spray on the leaves. And as they

30:31

eat the leaves, they ingest the

30:33

bacteria and then they start feeding

30:35

and so it is a safe,

30:37

organic an. Option The So that's

30:39

one thing I always keep on hand know

30:41

even that. Like I said, I don't use

30:43

it much because I like to cover my

30:46

crops. Obviously. With

30:48

indeterminate tomatoes that's not usually an option.

30:50

but I handpicked corn worms. The all

30:52

that to say if you have an

30:54

outbreak in you need to apply be

30:56

t you and have it on hand.

30:59

Another thing is die to make this

31:01

earth. I use it mainly for kill

31:03

bugs. Also known Israeli police for testing

31:05

my early. My. Early seedlings

31:07

starts after the crops get. To.

31:10

Be a decent sized, you know, like a

31:12

or ten inches in a museum. Bother them

31:14

by. I notice when I'm placing really young

31:16

seedlings sometimes of the pill bugs can be

31:18

a problem and I found it.some he says

31:20

her earth really help with that. And.

31:23

Other thing is a lot people use

31:25

name oil. I haven't used name oil

31:27

in a long time or really honestly

31:30

didn't find it to be other effective

31:32

but I know that are gardeners do

31:34

so is that something that that you

31:36

try out? Definitely take a look and

31:38

make sure that your content with an.

31:41

The. Risks to pull Editors for example, make

31:43

sure you played at the right from

31:45

the day of. My preferred I would

31:47

say would be horticultural oil. I tend

31:49

to use that more than name oil

31:51

but whichever one you want to use.

31:54

For. Whatever reason, like I said, I don't use

31:56

that all that much anyway. But if I need

31:58

to use some kind of and. Will the

32:00

and are you? It would be

32:02

good to have that handy in

32:04

in finally plant any perennial plants

32:07

that you want to have pretty

32:09

or meaning they will They will

32:11

produce year after year different ranges

32:13

depending on the crops that any

32:15

kind of bush's like your blueberry

32:17

buses, raspberries, blueberries, Anything

32:20

like asparagus. Now the time to play

32:22

asparagus. crowns strawberries. It's a good time

32:24

to plant strawberries are strawberry bad bear

32:26

routes. This is a great time for

32:28

that. And then if you already. Have

32:30

existing. Trees, bushes, things

32:33

like that. Add fertilizer. This is a

32:35

good time to add any kind of

32:37

organic fertilizer usually and nitrogen source and

32:39

I usually I usually just skip out

32:41

my chickens money or and put it

32:43

on my blueberry bus like underneath my

32:45

blueberry buses and him. but my fruit

32:48

trees and I also added to my

32:50

experience patch. But. In the

32:52

absence of chickens and chicken manure and you

32:54

can do, you get busted by chicken manure.

32:57

Is than smell the greatest but you can

32:59

buy it from as ballmer. they actually make

33:01

it into politics form or you can do

33:03

something like three Be Miller Cottonseed Mill. There's

33:05

lots of different things that if you have

33:08

any of those already this is a good

33:10

time to as fertilizer to it if they're

33:12

in their second year or beyond. All right.

33:14

So these are the things that I would

33:16

recommend that hopefully you have already done or

33:18

you can do soon and I hope that

33:20

this list has served as and hope for

33:22

you to go through and make sure that

33:24

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33:26

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Person Just for You All who were listening

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here on the podcast. This is something that's

33:46

actually been on my mind to the last

33:48

couple of weeks. And if you're a podcast

33:51

listeners, you can probably relate to this. I

33:53

don't know about you, but I am a

33:55

voracious consumer of information most of the time

33:57

that is through podcasts. Sometime it's on. Sometimes

34:00

it's through online courses, sometimes

34:02

it's through my email or

34:04

things that I read. books

34:06

are important to me, audio

34:09

books are important to me

34:11

and I'm just constantly trying

34:13

to learn. And wow, that's

34:15

not a bad thing. I

34:17

have been noticing that. I

34:19

need to be very careful about what I

34:21

consume them, what I put into my

34:23

mind. So case in point, a group

34:25

of lady from our church started to

34:27

do a bottle city at the beginning of

34:30

anyway called the Bible Recap. I don't

34:32

have you guys have heard of this

34:34

before but it's a really popular it's It's

34:36

basically reading the bible through in a

34:38

year and then there's every day and

34:40

eight minute recap of what you just

34:42

read. And at the beginning I didn't join

34:44

in with Sims because when you're reading

34:46

a bible through in in a year

34:48

you have. Several chapters you have to go

34:50

through when time a per day and I really

34:52

wasn't I really didn't think I could keep up.

34:54

I read my bible every day but I'm very

34:56

much a slow reader so I like to read

34:58

and they just read a few verses at a

35:01

time ago real deep on those to really worth

35:03

it for that Could keep up with. Two.

35:05

Or three chapters are more as

35:07

day. But then I

35:09

didn't realize this. But as they

35:11

were going through this, I realized

35:13

that I can listen to those

35:16

bible chapters through mobile app. And

35:18

then listen to the bible recaps.

35:21

Every. Day through my purpose player. So

35:23

instead of consuming first thing in the

35:26

morning is some other find, a podcast

35:28

or scrolling Instagram or whatever I decided

35:30

to jump in with Sam. I started

35:32

when they inserted dieter on me and

35:34

I just jumped in in the middle

35:37

and I started listening to the days

35:39

chapters in my ear buds as I

35:41

was getting ready and then listening to

35:43

the recap every day which was only

35:46

about eight minutes. So the. Actual

35:48

chapters may take ten fifteen minutes depending on

35:50

how long it is that day, and in

35:52

the recaps about eight. and I thought, you

35:54

know what? As. Much as I

35:57

consume the many other pieces of

35:59

information, Every day. If.

36:01

I can do that than and then

36:03

I can listen to the bible and

36:06

as I've been doing that adding that

36:08

into my day. Not only have I

36:10

been learning more, that guy's been teaching

36:12

me more and I feel like a

36:15

has set the course of my day

36:17

so much better because I really think

36:19

that guarding our minds and our hearts

36:21

with what we're listening you are consuming.

36:24

Whether you're a person of faith or

36:26

not, you can admit that it affects

36:28

you depending on what from the news

36:30

information. were. Getting depending on the

36:33

people that were falling on social

36:35

media, you know that algorithms are

36:37

set to basically play into our.

36:40

The. Our biases right? And so even when

36:42

we go on to Instagram we are going

36:44

into an echo chamber to some degree because

36:46

we follow people that we agree with and

36:49

in a keep telling us what we agree

36:51

with and and it can all the. Economy.

36:54

Toxic after a while. Not saying that we

36:56

should check out and opt out of all

36:58

of that, but maybe for me it's been.

37:01

Putting. Boundaries around it and then.

37:04

Honestly saying, if I can make

37:06

time for this podcast than I

37:08

can make time to spend listening

37:10

to the work everyday. So that's

37:12

something that has some been a

37:15

change in my life probably since

37:17

March. And if you are looking

37:19

to do something like that, I

37:21

absolutely adore the Bible recap. I

37:23

think it is so helpful for

37:25

learning scripture and if you've never

37:27

got into the bible it is.

37:29

It's so. Understandable. To

37:31

be able to recap what read each

37:33

day in a way that it makes

37:35

sense to you say? definitely, it's on

37:37

you to, but it's also on podcast

37:39

Players in the Battle that makes it

37:41

super easy to be able to pop

37:43

in as earbuds severe of High Castle

37:45

sinner which obviously aren't because. This.

37:48

Is where you're listening to this. I highly recommend you

37:50

take a look at it if is something that you're

37:52

interested in. So. Anyway, knowing

37:54

that your time is limited and that

37:56

you've chose to listen this far into

37:58

today's podcast, I just. How you thank

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38:02

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