You're listening 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. Welcome back to the Beginners Garden podcast. I am so excited to begin season three with you.

I've got some really, really exciting podcast episodes coming up,

including some guests I can't wait to talk with and share with you.

But today, we're going to talk about first steps.

You can start now to begin planning your garden.

If you're a regular listener, you know that planning the

garden is possibly my favorite part. Each year I tweak my planning processes and each year it gets

better. But before we get into these three steps to planning your garden that I'm going to share

with you today, I wanted

to let you know about something brand new I have available for you, whether you're a beginning

gardener or not. You may recall that two years ago I created my simple garden planner. Many of you

have purchased it or received it when you enrolled in my online gardening course,

The Beginners Garden Shortcut. I have used that planner for three years and I have loved it.

But I noticed that last year especially I really wanted to go a little deeper in my planning

and documenting the garden than the simple garden planner allowed. I still think the

simple garden planner is perfect for beginners. But for those of you who are a little further along,

or if you're a super planner, even if you're a beginner, because that's kind of the way I've always been,

I want to introduce you to my new complete garden planner

printable. It has special sections for planning, growing, and harvesting, plus two 2019 calendars.

One is a general planning calendar where you can plan your tasks by week, and the other is a garden observations calendar where you can plan your tasks by week and the other is a garden observations

calendar where you can notate different things in your garden. I'm personally looking forward to

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