415 - Your April Garden Checklist: Tasks, Planting, and Common Pitfalls
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
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🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
April is here, and garden season is in full swing! But if you’re feeling overwhelmed by all the tasks ahead, you’re not alone. In this episode, I’m breaking it all down so you can focus on what’s most important and skip the stress. We’ll cover:
🌱 Essential garden tasks to tackle this month
🌿 What to plant based on your last frost date
🚫 Common pitfalls to avoid so your garden thrives
Whether you're prepping beds, setting up irrigation, or keeping an eye on bolting crops, this episode will help you enter April prepared and excited for the season ahead.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we get started, if you are interested in companion planting, but you're not quite sure where to start, |
| 0:05.6 | I would love to give you a brand new guide for free. The guide is called Companion Planting 101. |
| 0:11.9 | So to get your copy, go to shop.journey with Jill.net, then click on the companion planting 101 guide, |
| 0:19.8 | add it to your cart, and use the code Gift 25 |
| 0:23.6 | at checkout to get it for free. |
| 0:26.0 | This is only good through April 7th, 2025, |
| 0:29.6 | so be sure to get that as soon as possible. |
| 0:32.8 | Again, shop.journeywithjill.net |
| 0:35.9 | and use the code Gift 25. Happy April. Garden season is definitely |
| 0:41.1 | upon us and I cannot contain my excitement this time of year. But I have also heard from many |
| 0:47.7 | of you that you are a little overwhelmed even in the midst of your excitement. If you're a newer |
| 0:53.4 | gardener, you may not know |
| 0:55.2 | what you need to do and in what order, and you may not even know what is important to do right now |
| 1:01.6 | and what can wait. Even those of us with experience can get a bit overwhelmed with all the tasks |
| 1:07.6 | and the to-do's floating in our heads that we know we have to get done. |
| 1:11.7 | In this episode, I'm hoping to simplify all of that for you and take out the overwhelm. |
| 1:17.7 | We'll talk about the most important tasks to focus on and not forget what you can expect to |
| 1:23.7 | be planting with suggestions based on your varying climate and common pitfalls to avoid. |
| 1:30.3 | My hope is that you can enter April as prepared and as excited as you possibly can be and that |
| 1:36.5 | you can enjoy the beginning of this beautiful garden season. |
| 1:41.6 | Welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill and I'm so glad you're here. In this podcast, |
| 1:47.4 | you'll find easy to understand conversations about how to grow your own food. As a first time |
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