408 - How to use AI to Make Garden Planning More Efficient (8 Prompts You Can Use Today)
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.4 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Remember all that extra time you had for gardening in 2020? Fast forward five years, and life feels busier than ever. But you’re still gardening—which means you’re finding ways to make it work. The biggest challenge? Time.
In this special episode of The Beginner’s Garden Podcast, we’re exploring how AI, specifically ChatGPT, can help streamline your garden planning so you can spend more time growing and less time on tedious research. I’ll share practical ways I’ve used AI to speed up my own planning and simple prompts you can start using today.
In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
✅ How ChatGPT acts as a supercharged search engine for gardening research
✅ Simple AI prompts to find frost dates, best seed prices, and ideal plant varieties
✅ How AI can assist with succession planting, companion planting, and garden layout design
✅ Why AI isn’t perfect—and how to critically evaluate its recommendations
Exciting News! Dream to Garden, my step-by-step garden planning course, is open for enrollment! And new for 2025, we’ve added an AI-powered Dream to Garden Companion, making garden planning easier than ever. Learn more at https://journeywithjill.net/dreamtogarden
AI is just another tool—one that, when used wisely, can help you grow more with less stress. Let’s dive in! 🎧
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| 0:00.0 | If you were a gardener in 2020, do you remember all that time you had on your hands? With the |
| 0:05.6 | exception of those working harder than anyone, like those in health care, many of us were able to spend |
| 0:11.4 | copious amounts of time in our garden planning and in creating our gardens. But now, five years later, |
| 0:19.3 | many of us would say that we are busier than ever. Yet, because you're |
| 0:24.3 | listening today, you're still gardening. These days, time is the biggest hindrance to the garden |
| 0:30.2 | that you want and dream for this year. But what if you could leverage technology to cut that |
| 0:37.0 | garden planning time significantly? |
| 0:40.2 | What if in the time that you do give your garden, you're able to spend it doing what excites you? |
| 0:46.9 | And that the more tedious planning tasks could get done by a simple stroke of keys. |
| 0:53.5 | I'll be honest, I am behind in my garden planning this year, |
| 0:56.8 | more so than I've ever been. But I've been able to use the method that I'm sharing with you |
| 1:01.3 | today to get things done much faster than ever before. By the end of this episode, you'll have |
| 1:07.6 | easy hacks to help you do the same and even more. |
| 1:11.1 | Welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill and I'm so glad you're here. In this |
| 1:17.4 | podcast you'll find easy to understand conversations about how to grow your own food. |
| 1:22.4 | As a first-time gardener myself 11 years ago, I remember what it's like to feel overwhelmed. |
| 1:29.0 | So I want to make gardening so doable for you that you'll find yourself falling in love with gardening just like I did. |
| 1:36.5 | Let's dig in. |
| 1:40.6 | Welcome to a special Friday episode of the Beginners Garden podcast. |
| 1:44.9 | Today we're going to be talking about simple ways that you can leverage the power of AI |
| 1:50.0 | to make your garden planning faster than ever. |
| 1:53.5 | But before we get there, I want to make sure you know that Dream to Garden, my online |
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