259 - Lessons & Observations from the 2022 Summer Garden
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.7 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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What challenges/successes have you had in your summer garden? Today I am sharing my ups and downs of my 2022 summer garden.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hey there and welcome back to the podcast. How you doing? Yeah, I know, we're in August and it's been a heck of a summer. |
| 0:10.3 | Let's just talk about that, shall we? A few weeks ago, I was sitting down having lunch with my friend Tiffany, who you all heard on the podcast earlier this summer. |
| 0:20.4 | And she was talking to me about |
| 0:22.5 | her garden and about how frustrated she was with it. |
| 0:25.9 | At that time, we were in the middle of an incredible heat wave, one that I definitely have not |
| 0:31.6 | seen since I've been a gardener, and according to the weather experts, it's definitely |
| 0:36.4 | been an anomaly, one for the records, |
| 0:39.3 | in some way or the other. |
| 0:41.5 | And she was just kind of talking about it |
| 0:43.8 | and we were comparing last year |
| 0:46.6 | and how last year was a different challenge, |
| 0:49.5 | but it was just as frustrating, just as discouraging, |
| 0:52.4 | but it was different. |
| 0:53.1 | It wasn't the heat. It was something else. |
| 0:55.1 | And she said, you know, I just think with gardening it's always going to be something. |
| 0:59.7 | And I said, you know, I think you're right. And I think I've learned that. Because it seems like |
| 1:05.0 | every year there's something that's unexpected that we have to overcome. And every year I'm thinking, okay, well, it's just this |
| 1:13.9 | year and next year will be better. But as I've been doing this, again, this is my 10th year, |
| 1:20.2 | I'm starting to see that I think every year is just going to present different challenges. |
| 1:30.7 | This year, we, along with so many of you, have had record heat and not necessarily where we were breaking high temperature records, |
| 1:37.2 | but more like going in the hundreds for weeks on end, which was 10 degrees above our average. And then couple that |
| 1:46.6 | with drought, where we went five weeks without rain, then we got a little bit of rain, and then we |
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