167. Prepare for Garden Season: Select Seeds, Learn Your Climate, Cultivate Healthy Soil | Bailey Van Tassel

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

If you are a gardener (or hopeful gardener) who is eagerly browsing seed catalogs and mapping out garden plots in anticipation of the upcoming growing season, this episode is for you! Bailey is a wealth of knowledge on backyard gardening, and our conversation was full of practical tips, especially for the suburban gardener. Bailey tends ten raised beds on her California neighborhood lot, and she helps gardeners in every zone plan, start, and cultivate their gardens no matter their level of experience. If you are looking for some garden inspiration as we look ahead to spring and summer, join us for this chat!

In this episode, we cover:

Growing a garden on a small suburban lot
Gardening year round in a warmer climate
Raised beds vs. in ground gardening
Finding quality soil and keeping it healthy
Options for composting with animal manure
Considering what grows well in your climate
Favorite plants to grow that are often overlooked
Why you should grow flowers and herbs
Five things gardeners can do in winter to prepare for the growing season
Top recommendations for ordering seeds
Starting seeds indoors vs direct sowing
Best advice for new gardeners
Making the garden part of your daily rhythm
Deciding what to let go when your plate is full

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life Podcast. Today we are going to be talking about gardening.
0:05.7	This is the time of year where there's not a whole lot to do outside as long as you live in a
0:10.5	zone where gardening is not year-round. Our guest, Bailey Vantassel, lives in Southern California,
0:15.8	but she is an expert on gardening, self-taught kitchen garden style gardens for all zones.
0:23.5	So we're going to chat about gardening. What you can do right now to prepare for gardening season,
0:29.8	some of her best tips, some crops that she grows that maybe you've forgotten about,
0:35.9	and then we're also going to be talking about how we don't do it all. So that's coming at the end
0:40.4	of the interview. Join me as I chat with Bailey Vantassel. My name is Lisa, mother of seven,
0:47.1	and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boone. Join me as I share with you my love
0:52.4	for creating a handmade home from scratch cooking and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way.
1:00.4	All right. Well, thank you so much, Bailey, for joining me to talk about gardening. It might
1:07.1	seem like an odd season because we still have several months here. I know where you live,
1:12.2	you're actively gardening year-round, but January is the time that us midwesterners do start
1:18.4	thinking about gardening because we don't have a whole lot else to do. So it's fun to dream.
1:22.7	So we're going to talk about that. But first, tell us about you, your garden, your family,
1:26.9	your podcast, whatever else you want to share. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for having me first
1:31.9	and foremost. I'm super grateful to be here. And I know I get a lot of people that are like,
1:36.9	I can't believe you can garden year-round, and it is cool, but it comes with its own challenges
1:43.3	and pitfalls. And sometimes I'm like, gosh, I'd love to have just a month of rest, sort of.
1:48.9	Right. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So I am Bailey Vantassel, and I am a home gardener, essentially self-taught.
1:57.2	I found myself in the middle of the suburbs really beginning to raise a family and feeling this
2:04.1	deep need to like run to the country, which is how I was raised. I grew up on like three acres
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