Welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net, and my goal is to be back with you today.

In this episode, we're going to be talking about growing a fall garden.

If planting for a fall harvest seems a little

bit intimidating to you, I completely understand. In fact, my first couple of years, I didn't

even try a fall garden. Honestly, I was tired. After all the work on my very first garden and maybe even year two, I was done. I was so

exhausted. I was ready to clean up the garden and I just wanted to go and take my winter break.

But after a couple of years, I started hearing more and more about how rewarding a fall garden

could be. So I decided to try my hand at it

little by little, and each year I've been able to expand my fall garden, and let me tell you,

it's not near as large as my summer one, so I don't want you to get the impression that you're

going to be doing a whole other garden in the fall, which depending on your

garden space, you may, but for me, it's much smaller, much more manageable and rewarding in its own

right. But we're talking about this today because in order to start planning a fall garden,

you have to start in the summer. And that is probably the most

challenging thing for me because right now at the end of July, the beginning part of August,

I am so busy harvesting and canning and our hot weather is absolutely oppressive. Like a couple of weeks ago, we had excessive heat warnings,

which is uncommon even for my area in Arkansas, but you just didn't want to be outside. Even at 6 a.m.,

you're drenching with sweat. So I know some of you guys that live more southern than me,

you totally get that. So it's really hard to think about

starting a brand new garden layout an area and all the things that go with a fall garden when

your neck deep in harvesting and preserving in just the heat of the summer but what i want to do

today is i want to go over several things about planning a fall garden.

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