334 - Planning a Winter Garden
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
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🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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There can definitely be a learning curve when it comes to thinking about how to plan out a winter garden. Today I wanted to talk about a few of those tips with you.
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| 0:00.5 | Hey there and welcome back to the podcast. Today we're going to be talking about planning and growing a winter garden. |
| 0:08.6 | You might be asking though, what is a winter garden? And I suppose that depending on where you're located, a winter garden may look a little bit different. |
| 0:17.0 | For example, if you're in an area where you don't get any freezes, your winter garden is |
| 0:21.2 | basically a really good garden time, so it's not necessarily over the winter. |
| 0:26.5 | And if you're much more north than me, then a winter garden may only be possible inside. |
| 0:32.8 | For me, I'm in Zone 7B, and we do get a winter, but but it's fairly mild and I've been able to figure out |
| 0:39.7 | that there's a way that I can grow some things through the winter or at least into a good |
| 0:44.9 | part of the winter. This is something that I actually discovered by accident because I was planting |
| 0:50.0 | a fall garden for many years and I discovered that some things actually would last longer than I |
| 0:55.3 | thought that they would. So this year I'm actually getting very intentional and strategic about |
| 1:00.9 | planning and growing a winter garden so that I can have more food to last a little bit longer. |
| 1:08.0 | My purpose in this episode today is to give you five steps to planning a winter garden |
| 1:13.5 | whether or not this would be the right time for you to do that. With some crops, it may be too |
| 1:18.6 | late, but it might be something you want to tuck in the back of your mind for next year and see |
| 1:23.7 | if this is a possibility for you. I'm going to share with you how exactly I went about |
| 1:28.8 | planning the winter garden, what's going to be growing there, my hopes, and some specific |
| 1:34.6 | considerations when it comes to what may or may not survive throughout the winter. Hopefully, |
| 1:40.8 | by following my progress and my thought process on all of this, you can start thinking |
| 1:45.9 | about ways that you can grow further into the winter in future years. |
| 1:52.9 | Welcome, I'm Jill, and 10 years ago I started my first garden as a new stay-at-home mom |
| 1:58.4 | looking to cut grocery costs and grow my own food. Over the years, |
| 2:02.6 | with many failures and successes, I stumbled my way into becoming a gardener. And six years ago, |
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