You're listening to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net,

and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the tools they need to grow a rewarding, productive garden. Hi there. Thank you so much for joining me today on the Beginners Garden podcast. It is the middle of

August when I'm recording this and it's kind of like the beginning of a new year

for me because today was the first day that my kids went back to school and if you've been

listening to this podcast over the summer you know it's been quite a struggle to be able to get

podcast episodes out to you while the kids were home and I tried to do it a little bit over the summer,

but now I'm able to really focus back on these episodes and I'm hoping to get them to you

every other week, at least for the next couple of months. And what I wanted to bring to you today

is something I think about this time of year every year. And that's just kind of a reflection of how the garden season has gone

now granted it is the middle of august and our season is far from over we don't experience our

first fall frost till november so i still have several months of good harvesting and growing

i'm getting ready to start working on my fall

garden in earnest this week and next week. So I still have a lot left to go. But as far as the

summer crops and the biggest bulk of my garden, that's pretty much winding down. And so this

is a good time for me to start reflecting on the season and take a look

at what worked and what didn't work. Many of you guys have experienced the same type of season that I

had and you have had some major challenges this year. Mine started out at the very beginning,

way too much rain. I had a lot of trouble with rabbits, and I just had a lot of different failures, especially

at the beginning of the season.

And that has definitely calmed down as the season progressed.

I ended up having a really good harvest in a lot of different crops.

So it ended up working out pretty well.

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