114 - The Autopilot Garden with Luke Marion

The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

Jill McSheehy

Gardening, Garden, How To, Education, Organicgardening, Home & Garden, Leisure, Homegardening, Beginninggardener, Vegetablegardening

4.4 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

How does a garden that requires minimal input and maximum harvest sound to you? Instead of you working for it, your garden works for you. It's almost like the garden runs on autopilot. Sounds too good to be true, right?

Not according to MI Gardener's Luke Marion. Luke spends 15 minutes a WEEK in his 5,000 sq ft garden, outside of the busy planting time. So, how does he do it?

Luke shares his methods in his book, The AutoPilot Garden, but in today's post and episode on the Beginner's Garden Podcast, he gives a bit of insight into some of the primary methods he has put in place in his garden: core gardening and high-intensity spacing.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net,
0:06.1	and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the intermediate and veteran gardeners alike, but specifically for beginning gardeners and intermediate and veteran gardeners alike,
0:38.7	but specifically for beginning gardeners, that I highly recommend for anyone to read,
0:45.2	especially this time of year when we just don't have a whole lot going on in the garden,
0:49.6	but we love to dream. These books are going to give you lots of information that you can take and apply
0:56.0	in your garden next season. Last week, we spoke to Kevin Espiritu from Epic Gardening, and if you
1:02.2	haven't listened to that one yet, I highly recommend going back and taking a listen to that one.
1:07.3	But today, I'm thrilled to welcome someone that I have been following ever since I was a
1:12.9	beginning gardener on YouTube, and I'm talking years. And that is Luke Marion from M.I. Gardner.
1:20.0	Many of you guys know Luke from his YouTube channel at M.I. Gardner, but you also may know him
1:25.3	because he launched an online seed shop, and you may have actually
1:29.3	purchased some of his seeds. I purchased some last year, along with several different seed companies.
1:34.7	I tried lots of different ones, but I really enjoyed in my gardener's seed collection and especially
1:40.0	the price point, and he's going to talk about that at the end of the show. But I'm getting
1:44.2	ahead of myself. Luke has a new book out that just released this year called the Autopilot Garden.
1:51.1	And I love that title, because how many of us would love to have our gardens run on autopilot?
1:58.1	It sounds too good to be true, right? Well, I ask Luke about those things because he makes
2:02.6	a pretty bold statement at the beginning of his book and I'm like, how is this possible? You guys are
2:08.5	going to want to listen to his answer of how he's able to maintain the 5,000 square foot garden
2:14.6	that he has in just minutes a week. Seriously, guys, blowing my mind here.
2:19.9	I can't wait to try some of the stuff he talks about. If after listening to this interview,
2:24.6	you are interested in his book, the autopilot garden, or you want to follow him on YouTube,
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