83- From Ground Beds to Raised Beds - Interview with Jill Winger of the Prairie Homestead

The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

Jill McSheehy

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🗓️ 7 May 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

First-time gardeners must decide: "should I plant in a raised garden bed or in the ground?" Certainly, it's not always an either/or decision.

While I've always used a combination of both for many reasons, Jill Winger of the Prairie Homestead converted her in-ground garden to a garden comprised entirely of raised beds.

Though a devastating experience of inadvertently poisoning her garden served as a catalyst for the switch, she shares the benefits and drawbacks of both methods in today's episode of the Beginner's Garden Podcast. Click below to listen to our conversation or continue reading.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Beginners Garden Podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net,
0:06.1	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. Today we're going to be talking more with Jill Winger of the Prairie Homestead. If you listened last week,
0:39.8	you know that Jill talked to us about accidentally poisoning her garden and how you can detect
0:46.5	if your garden has been poisoned. Or maybe if you're just experiencing some leaf curling with your
0:52.9	tomatoes, she talks all about how to discover
0:56.2	what the problem might be. So that's in last week's episode. But this week, we're going to talk
1:01.5	a little bit more about her journey because what happened with her garden and finding out that
1:06.9	her soil was tainted, it actually catapulted her onto a journey with raised beds.
1:13.1	And raised beds was something that she had always considered, but now that she was at a crossroads,
1:18.0	she decided to go ahead and do it. So she's going to be talking today about how they built their
1:23.2	raised beds, what they filled their raised beds with, and what her experience has been so far.
1:29.1	And toward the end of the episode, she's going to talk to you if you're considering making
1:33.2	that transition or maybe it's your first year and you're trying to figure out whether you
1:38.1	should grow in raised beds or your ground. To begin with, she's going to give you some
1:42.3	pros and cons to both ways. So you're going to get
1:45.0	a lot of good information on this episode with Jill Winger of the Prairie Homestead blog.
1:52.1	Now, before we cut to that conversation with Jill, I do want to remind you that she is giving
1:57.5	away a copy of her book, the Prairie Homestead Cookbook. And if you're listening
2:03.1	to this in real time on Tuesday, May 7th, today is the last day of the giveaway. So at the end
2:11.0	of this episode, I'm going to give you instructions on how to enter, and tomorrow the winner will
2:16.4	be announced.
2:24.0	All right, let's talk to Jill about her transition from ground beds to raise beds.
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