305 - When to Plant and When to Wait
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.4 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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What happens when you have your garden all planned and the timing doesn't work out? Join me today and we will talk about what to do when you need to wait to plant.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Tuesday and welcome back to the podcast. If you have ever had a garden before, you can totally |
| 0:06.3 | relate to the situation I'm about to describe. And if you are a brand new first time beginning |
| 0:12.1 | gardener, listen up because you will be in this position at some point as well. Here's the dilemma. |
| 0:19.4 | You have planned your garden, you have written out all the planting |
| 0:23.0 | dates when you should plant what crop, then the garden calendar tells you, okay, it's time to plant, |
| 0:30.1 | whether that's a certain amount of time before your average last frost date, such as your cool |
| 0:34.7 | season crops, or after your average last frost date, which are |
| 0:38.3 | your warm season crops. So the garden calendar tells you it's time to plant, but you also know that |
| 0:45.3 | you base those times on averages, and you know that averages are averages, and the actual proper time to |
| 0:53.1 | plant these crops could swing in either direction, |
| 0:56.4 | a couple of weeks before or after or even beyond that as we've experienced in the past. |
| 1:02.4 | So when the garden calendar tells you to plant, how do you know when to actually plant? |
| 1:07.6 | How do you know that your garden and your crops are ready for that transition? |
| 1:12.1 | We're talking mainly about transplants, but we will also be talking about directly sewing seeds |
| 1:17.7 | because getting that timing right is important as well. So today we're going to talk about |
| 1:23.7 | some signs that I particularly look at when it comes to actually planting in the garden, |
| 1:30.4 | especially when the garden calendar says it's go time. Let's make wise decisions based on some |
| 1:36.8 | other factors we can start reading at the time that we want to plant. Welcome, I'm Jill, |
| 1:42.6 | and 10 years ago I started my first garden as a new stay-at-home mom |
| 1:46.8 | looking to cut grocery costs and grow my own food. Over the years with many failures and |
| 1:52.1 | successes, I stumbled my way into becoming a gardener. And six years ago, I started this podcast to |
| 1:57.8 | help others grow their own food as well. By tuning in each Tuesday, I hope |
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