What is going on everyone?

What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Garden Podcast. Jill McShei is back.

She's the founder of Journey with Jill. Her podcast is called The Beginners Garden Podcast.

And if you're listening, this is a special day because today is April 21st.

If you're listening to the podcast, the day it came out.

And Jill's book is officially launched.

It's called Vegetable Gardening for Beginners.

Link will be in the podcast description.

I highly recommend you go take a look at that.

So first of all, congratulations on that, Jill,

as someone who's put a book out out I know it's a pretty daunting

experience. Yes, thank you so much. I appreciate that. It's it's exciting to have it

finally in the world. Yeah, yeah, I know awesome and I've I got a early release

copy of it and I think it's fantastic so everyone should definitely check that out and you know let's talk now about something maybe a little bit less exciting but in a different way and that would be some failures in the garden. We all have them.

I think I've had many people on in the past, Joe Lample, all these people fail in the

garden. We all do it. It's completely natural and normal and in fact in some ways I think should be encouraged otherwise you're kind of

just successfully growing the same thing every year and not really growing as a gardener

so I would love to hear some of your biggest fails.

Yeah, I think that is one thing I try to encourage people not to be afraid of.

That first year I wanted to get everything right and not have any failure whatsoever. But if you go into

gardening that way you're going to be disappointed and then you're also going to

miss some really big learning opportunities. My biggest fail came that very first year and it was a big one. So I

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