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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

2024 Spring Garden Plans

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

2023 garden wins, what Kevin and Jacques learned and what they will be doing more and less of this year. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3H6Z7Rk Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/48qhWuz Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3vyzXIx EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/48JhjMB Learn More: 11 Gardening Tasks to Prepare Your Garden for Spring Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design.   Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead!  Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, and Jacques) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So spring is around the corner and a lot of people are probably planning like maybe literally writing out plans.

0:17.0

I'm thinking about them. I should start writing and actually journaling. I don't know about you. Are you a journaler or are you a free hand?

0:23.0

What I will do is I will first of all I'm thumbing through catalogs right now.

0:29.0

Oh yeah. And my voice got real grappling right there because I got excited. I got serious, you know.

0:35.0

But no, I'm thumbing through catalogs. I'm picking varieties I like.

0:39.0

Yeah. I'm ordering seed. I'm not really going to the nursery too much yet. I'm thinking, I'm thinking, I'm thinking. I will, usually on a weekend, I'll like just wander around outside and keep my phone out and like take notes and I'll just have a big I'll just have a document and I'll be like

0:56.1

move banana this way or like cut this down move this path like put this weed out whatever so there's you's- You do it in spurt's.

1:03.6

I do it in little chunks in spurs,

1:05.0

and then those notes get activated

1:07.4

into the week's worth of tasks, right?

1:10.7

But when I think about the season, I also have basically I have like two bulleted lists, like one will be the tasks of the week or like of the time and then the other will be like, oh, it'd be nice if it was actually this way in the future, right?

1:23.7

Like a path or, or actually this place is where I want to grow this crop.

1:29.5

Oh, now I need to figure out what seed of that crop I need to grow.

1:32.2

Oh, when do I start that seed.

1:34.0

So I think about results and then I try to go backwards and how do I get that result.

1:38.6

I see.

1:39.6

And I think that's the only way to do it in gardening because you have to think about the end result to get the

1:43.4

starting point because of how plants grow. Yeah and it takes a long time so you really

1:47.1

have to have that foresight. I mean right now I think for most people they're

1:50.6

starting to think about seed starting season right because it's

1:53.3

springtime most of these things that we put in the ground like like you mentioned

1:56.9

earlier the cold season you start your tomatoes sometime in January because you want

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