127 - Early Spring To-Do List
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
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🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Do you have an early spring garden checklist? As I've learned to extend my growing season and plan my garden in more efficient way, I've begun getting ready well before my average last frost date. Today I'm sharing all about what I do in my garden approximately one month before my average last frost date.
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| 0:00.0 | In the past, I looked at my average last frost date as go time. |
| 0:05.0 | It's when all of my warm weather crops could be planted and when I felt like the garden completely kicked off. |
| 0:12.0 | But the more I've embraced a full-season garden and I try to get as much as I can out of my garden |
| 0:17.0 | both before that average last frost date and afterwards, the more I've realized |
| 0:23.1 | that the busy time of the garden doesn't start right after your average last frost date. |
| 0:30.1 | So if you haven't approached your average last frost date yet, listen in because I'm going to share |
| 0:36.0 | with you some garden tasks that you can do |
| 0:38.9 | for the early spring maybe some things you hadn't thought about and some timing of the |
| 0:44.4 | tasks that are really important to know it's finally time to start digging in the dirt |
| 0:49.2 | are you ready hi I'm Jill and in 2013 I started my first garden, having no background, knowledge, or experience |
| 0:59.0 | whatsoever. Now I am embarking on my eighth season of growing my own vegetables, fruits, and herbs, |
| 1:04.6 | and I'm proof that you don't have to have decades of experience to grow your own garden, |
| 1:09.5 | big or small. I certainly don't know at all, |
| 1:12.0 | but I can share what I've learned and bring guests along who can offer much more wisdom than I |
| 1:16.4 | have. I'm so glad you're here at the Beginners Garden podcast today. Let's dive in. As I'm recording |
| 1:23.3 | this, I am about one month ahead of my average last frost date. And because of that, I've got |
| 1:30.4 | fresh on my mind some of my early spring tasks that I do every year about this time. As it so |
| 1:38.4 | happens yesterday, I actually spent several hours in my garden. It was the first time after battling illnesses for a |
| 1:46.1 | couple of weeks with me and my family and incessant rain and cold that I was finally able to |
| 1:53.0 | get into the garden. It was a beautiful 70 degree day and I was just having a ball. Because these |
| 1:59.4 | tasks are fresh on my mind and because many of you have asked me to give you a list of garden tasks based on the time of year, |
| 2:07.3 | I thought this would be a perfect time to be able to share with you what you can be doing in your garden |
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