Welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net, and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the ways that you can prepare your garden for your vacation.

And I get really excited about this subject because I love vacations.

I love getting away. I love to travel. And sometimes if you think about that, you might think,

well, how do I manage a garden and travel at the same time? Because obviously in the height of the

season, especially if you go on

vacation in the summer, how are you supposed to manage all of that? Well, I can tell you that that is a

very good question because it's something you definitely need to think about before you leave,

obviously, but there's also some things that you need to plan for

way ahead of time. Yesterday, my husband and I were at breakfast, and we like to do that now when he

gets a day off. The kids are at school, and we end up going to breakfast just to spend some time

together. It's just something that we can do now that the kids are a little older. And one thing we like to do is we like to plan garden chores and garden projects,

but we also like to talk about our upcoming vacations.

And I just realized when I was talking to him yesterday that summer's coming up pretty quickly.

And I think that I've just kind of been duped

into thinking it's still winter

because I don't know about you guys,

but winter has hung on way too long in my area.

We had our last freeze, not our last frost,

but our last freeze a good 17 days

after our average last frost.

So that's a pretty long winter in our area. So now that it's

actually finally starting to get a little bit warmer and I'm able to start planting things in the

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