Welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net, and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the tools they need to grow a rewarding, productive garden.

Thank you. Lessons I learned this year from my summer garden.

That's what we're going to talk about today on the Beginners Garden podcast.

I know one thing that I really appreciate about other gardeners and hearing their stories is what they learn from year to year. And that is one thing that is so

much fun about gardening is you never get to a point where you know it all. Every year is a learning

experience and every year we get the opportunity to test new things in our

gardens. We get to hear what other people are experiencing and we get to test it and see if we

get the same results in our gardens. And so what I wanted to do with this podcast episode,

just like I did in a one, a few episodes back where I talked about lessons from my

spring garden is I wanted to bring you a few lessons that I learned from my summer garden this

year. This episode is going to be a little bit unique because I actually tested a few things

in my garden this year. Usually I just learn by the seat of my

pants. This worked, this didn't. Maybe this caused this. Who knows? But this year, I decided to put

some things to the test, specifically when it came to my tomato crops, my corn crops,

even my squash and zucchini crops. So my hope is that you can just glean some information

from what I experienced in my garden and then decide if you want to test it out in yours.

One thing that I have learned from so many of you guys in the Beginners Garden Shortcut

Facebook group, which is free and you definitely need to go and join there,

is that a lot of us have different experiences based on where we live.

So I'm learning more and more that there's no one size fits all in lots of different things

that we do in our garden.

And so that's why I want to tell you to take what I've learned in my garden this year

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