Hey there and how's it going? I hope that you can hear my smile because even though I am recording

this before Christmas, I know that this episode is going to go live in the week between Christmas

and New Year's. And if you've been around here for any length of time, you know that's when I hit

the ground running in my garden planning. It's my favorite thing to do the day after Christmas

to take all the Christmas decorations down. I know that's not for everyone, but for me, I'm ready to

make it a clean slate and get going on 2023, which for me is planning my garden. If you can't tell

already, I love garden planning. It's my favorite thing.

Even though I'm an Enneagram 1, I think I channel my inner Enneagram 7 when I go to strength

because I'm thinking about all of the possibilities and all the fun I can have with the garden.

And I'm not thinking about the pests or the diseases or anything negative.

It's all about the positive that this season surely will bring, right? Okay, so maybe I'm looking

at the season with rose-colored glasses, but what else do you have to do this time of year?

But here's the thing. I don't think I'm the only one who tends to look toward my

garden with all the possibilities and wanting to do more than I can realistically handle. And I don't

think I'm the only one who opens up those seed catalogs and gets enticed by every little thing

without a realistic plan going forward. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all

about the dreaming. In fact, in my garden planning course, dream to garden, it's not open right now,

but it will open again in February. The first thing that I have students go through is these

big picture dreams. What would you do in your garden if there

were no limits? I think that there's a place for that and it's important. But I also want to

bring in some reality and some structure to that garden plan. And the reason for that is that

when you're planning your garden and when you actually start

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