333 - What Didn't Go As Planned This Year
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.4 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Even after 10 years of gardening, I still have things in my garden that don't go as planned. Let's talk about 10 different things that didn't go like I hoped they would this year.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there and welcome back to the podcast. I'm so grateful for you tuning in today. This time of |
| 0:06.4 | year I feel like I have my hands or my head in two places. On one hand, I'm trying to lean into the |
| 0:13.2 | fall and lean into the rest that comes at the end of the gardening season. But I also find myself |
| 0:19.0 | doing a lot of reflecting on the season. Part of that is because I want to |
| 0:24.5 | truly get an idea of what I want to do differently and what I want to replicate and do the same |
| 0:31.8 | or even better next year. And I think a lot of that really does depend on us accurately reflecting on the garden |
| 0:38.7 | each year. We all start our gardens each spring with great plans, and often we try new things |
| 0:44.9 | just to test to see how they will do. It's something that I encourage all of us to do, |
| 0:49.7 | to don't be afraid to test different things in your garden. But whether it's something we've had success |
| 0:55.5 | with in the past or something we're testing out for the first time, we've got to understand that |
| 1:00.7 | not everything is going to go as planned. Today, what I wanted to share with you is that there |
| 1:07.5 | are some things that did not go as planned for me this year. And I wanted to share with you |
| 1:12.5 | what those are. Some of them, I can give you an idea of why they didn't work. Some of them, I'm still a |
| 1:18.7 | little bit perplexed, quite frankly. And I wanted to share that with you, partly because I don't |
| 1:22.5 | know that we will ever completely know the reasons behind everything. My hope, though, with this episode is to give you |
| 1:30.2 | an idea of the things that I did learn through the things that didn't go as planned. Hopefully, |
| 1:35.9 | they will help you as you start planning your next season. And then hopefully it'll also encourage |
| 1:41.2 | you if some things didn't go as planned for you in your garden, |
| 1:49.1 | how you can still keep your chin up and keep your viewpoint toward next season and be okay, that it's completely normal that not everything works out as planned. |
| 1:54.8 | Welcome, I'm Jill and 10 years ago I started my first garden as a new stay-at-home mom |
| 2:00.3 | looking to cut grocery costs and grow my own |
| 2:02.7 | food. Over the years, with many failures and successes, I settled my way into becoming a gardener. |
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