119. Planning Your Garden, Selecting Seeds, Preserving the Harvest | Meg Hollar of The Hollar Homestead

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Although winter is still in full swing, it’s already time to start thinking about planting seeds for your summer garden. In today’s conversation, Meg Hollar of The Hollar Homestead joins me to talk all things gardening: selecting seeds, preparing the soil, what we are growing, and even how to use and preserve the harvest. We have both been gardening for many years now, but we are continually learning more each year. Whether you are a seasoned gardener or just starting out, this conversation may give you some new strategies to try this year!

In this episode, we cover:

Ordering seeds
Preparing garden beds
What we are excited to grow this year
When to start planting seeds
Strategies for successful transplanting
Gardening mistakes and what we wish we had known before starting
Favorite methods of preserving
Why you want to include flowers in your garden

GUEST BIOGRAPHY

Meg and her husband, Ben, are trading in "normal" for making their own path. After suburban homesteading in Southern California for a few years, they sold most of their stuff, packed up the rest into a trailer, and set out across the United States with their four sons to find their forever homestead. The Hollar family is now revitalizing an old homestead in North Carolina, and they’ve added a baby girl and a variety of farm animals to their family along the way. They live small, love hard, and have one major goal: to LIVE a life worth living.

RESOURCES

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

Territorial Seed Company

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast.
0:02.3	Today we're gonna be chatting about something
0:03.9	that I bet a lot of you are starting to think
0:06.6	a little bit about and that is seed starting,
0:09.2	gardening, planting seeds indoors
0:12.3	and getting all ready for the upcoming spring season.
0:15.1	It just seems like the right time,
0:16.4	considering that right now at this time of recording,
0:19.6	there's a blizzard about to sweep through the entire Midwest.
0:22.9	So why not get out those seed catalogs,
0:26.0	start looking through them and seeing what you might wanna
0:28.9	plant on the nice warmer days ahead.
0:31.3	Now Megan, I had a little bit of trouble with the internet.
0:34.2	We had about a five second lag, I believe.
0:37.6	So it seems like the back and forth is a little bit awkward.
0:41.1	It's just because both of us were trying to see
0:43.2	if the other one was gonna keep talking or not.
0:45.8	And so we hope that you're able to still
0:48.8	enjoy the conversation where we just share
0:50.8	a little bit about our gardens and what we're excited to plant
0:54.1	and some of the preserving methods
0:56.0	that both of us prefer and use for the summer season
	...

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