Hey there and welcome back to the podcast. It probably goes without saying that spring is probably the busiest time in the garden.

How then do we keep all of our tasks straight without missing something important? Our default, if we're honest, is probably just to focus on the lowest hanging fruit, no pun intended, that we know we have to get done.

Tasks like preparing the garden space and planting, those are usually our primary focuses this time of year,

and for good reason. But if we get too carried away with the obvious tasks, we sometimes miss

the not-so-obvious tasks that are still very important.

So today I'm going to give you a spring garden checklist so that you can take a mental note of what you've already completed, which would be great, but also maybe you'll learn a few things that you still need to do and not forget about.

Welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill and I'm so glad you're here. In this podcast,

you'll find easy to understand conversations about how to grow your own food. As a first time

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Before we get started in the podcast today, I wanted to make sure you knew of two quick things.

The first is that we are getting ready to do

the third of our series of workshops through the year in April. I believe it's April 25th.

We are going to be doing a live workshop on how to grow a pizza and salsa garden. This one is

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