155 - Summer Garden 2020 - Failures

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

🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

How do you view failure? The garden is teaching me to view failure in a whole new way. Join me today to hear what I've learned from this years garden failures.

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0:00.0	Hey there, let me ask you a question. How do you view failure? Do you accept it like it's a part of life?
0:08.8	Do you avoid it at all costs? Or do you look at it is a way to learn something new and to improve?
0:18.0	I hope that you can say the third is true of you, and I have to admit that the third is
0:24.2	becoming true of me, but it's definitely not my default. My entire life has been spent avoiding
0:32.5	failure. Even if it has meant never taking a risk, failure has been something that has been so loathe to me
0:41.2	that it's not something I've ever embraced as being a redeeming quality to life.
0:47.5	But like many other things, the garden has taught me a different way.
0:53.4	The garden has taught me to look at failure as a blessing to some
0:57.9	degree, as an opportunity, perhaps even the very best teacher that I could ask for. Last week's
1:07.9	episode, we talked about the successes in my 2020 garden, and I have to tell you,
1:13.2	this has probably been the best garden I've ever had. I am extremely thrilled with the results.
1:19.9	But my garden in 2020 was not without failure. My garden in 2020 didn't look picture perfect on Instagram. There were many things that I avoided
1:32.5	even posting on Instagram because I have a gardening podcast and this is how my beans look,
1:39.1	but I'm going to be honest with you today. I'm going to share with you some of my garden failures, not in an attempt to
1:46.7	air out my dirty laundry by any means, but actually for two reasons. One, I want you to know that
1:53.8	your garden failures do not make you a failing gardener. Garden failures are normal and I want you to look at them as opportunities.
2:03.6	But number two, I would love for you to learn from my failures. I would love for you to avoid some of the
2:08.9	things that I dealt with this year. And so maybe by avoiding some of the mistakes that I made or
2:14.5	some of the things that just didn't work out right maybe you can
2:18.0	have an even better garden next year by learning some of the things that I had to learn the
2:23.5	hard way. Hi, I'm Jill and in 2013 I started my first garden having no background, knowledge,
2:30.6	or experience whatsoever. Now I am embarking on my eighth season of growing my own
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