You're listening to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net,

and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the tools they need to grow a rewarding, productive garden. Hey guys. I am super excited to talk to you today about the topic of today's podcast episode.

We're going to be talking all about garden projects that you can do

right now in the fall and maybe even the winter, depending on where you're located, to prepare

your garden for next season. I hope you can hear the smile on my face as I talk about this. Now,

I know that may seem like a crazy idea,

but actually at my previous job, I ran a call center and I trained people to talk on the phone.

And the one thing that we started out with is make sure that when you're talking, you are

literally smiling because it comes through. And you can probably picture that I'm actually smiling right now because this topic is so

much fun for me.

So we're going to be talking about 11 projects that you can do in the off season to prepare

for next season.

But first I want to address why now.

When we think of garden projects, don't we think of what we're

doing in the spring to get ready for the planting season? I know a lot of my garden projects I do

do in the spring just because you have so much excitement, you want to get everything ready.

But there is a great benefit to tackling some of these garden projects now.

First, you may notice in the fall, you're having to do fewer tasks in the garden to keep it up.

Even if you are growing a fall garden, your daily task load is significantly lower,

so you have the extra time to be able to incorporate some of these projects.

Another thing, and this is a big one, is that in most places, you're experiencing some nicer

days. You're not experiencing the height of the heat of the summer, and you're not yet

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