If you've ever had a garden failure, whether you knew it was your fault or you couldn't

figure out what went wrong, this episode is for you. To be honest, this isn't an easy episode

for me to make. After all, you have heard me championing the fall garden year after year,

teaching you strategies to help you be successful in your fall garden. And yet,

this year, I've found myself with more failures than successes. It's frustrating. It's

discouraging. And given what I do, teach people how to garden, it's more than a little embarrassing.

But here's the thing you have told me time and time again.

You appreciate when I'm honest.

You appreciate when I share my struggles.

When you see that I don't have it all together.

So there are two reasons why I decided to share this episode with you.

One, we all have failures, despite what you may see online,

and I want you to know that you're not alone.

I want us both to have compassion on ourselves,

even with the things that we didn't get right.

And two, I want you to learn from my failures. In some of these examples like with potatoes, you'll see it had a pretty

good idea what I did wrong, but in others like carrots, I'm speculating what happened,

but I'm still kind of stumped.

But either way, you'll leave this episode with ideas that will hopefully help you find ways

to tweak what you do and increase your harvest in the future. And one more thing,

not all of my fall garden was a failure. I'll share with you at the end what

went perfectly well, so if you have had struggles in those areas, you can borrow from what I did

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