88 - Tips from Rookie Gardeners

The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

Jill McSheehy

Gardening, Garden, How To, Education, Organicgardening, Home & Garden, Leisure, Homegardening, Beginninggardener, Vegetablegardening

4.4 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

I think we'd all say experienced gardeners offer priceless garden wisdom, but there's a group of people first-time gardeners can also learn from that's often overlooked: second-time gardeners. Still with a beginner's mindset, gardeners in their sophomore year recall details experienced gardeners forget.

It's kind of like how a mom of a toddler can offer something special to a mom of a newborn that a mother of teenagers can't. It's a "been there, done that" mindset that hasn't "been there, forgotten that."

Though I still consider myself a beginning gardener in so many ways -- we're all learning no matter how many seasons we've gardened -- I asked second-time gardeners in my Facebook group to share their top suggestions with their first-time peers. Most of the suggestions fell into a few categories.

In this episode of the Beginner's Garden Podcast, I share the six best tips beginning gardeners learned after their first season. Click to listen or continue reading below.

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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. Hey there. I hope you're having a great garden season so far.
0:33.3	The other day, something came to my mind.
0:35.7	I was thinking about how sometimes the best garden advice,
0:39.9	maybe the most applicable garden advice that we can get, doesn't always come from the experts,
0:45.5	but instead it comes from someone who is just a step ahead of us, someone who is actually
0:52.7	still new to gardening themselves, but who remembers what it's like
0:56.5	to have all the questions, but who have also overcome lots of things and learned a lot and
1:02.2	still remembers it all. When I first started the Beginners Garden podcast in 2017, that's
1:07.5	exactly where I started. I didn't know much. I still had more questions than answers,
1:14.1	but I still felt like I could do something to help other beginning gardeners get a leg up
1:19.8	and maybe be able to get their gardens successful in a quicker manner than I was able to.
1:25.8	As the years go by and as I gain more experience, I hope to
1:29.3	still retain that beginner's eye. But in the meantime, learn more and more. I know there's some
1:36.4	advice that I've given in the past that I shudder to think about because it's not what I would
1:40.9	recommend now. But that's just life, you know. We live, we learn, we learn more,
1:45.7	and sometimes we have to change the way we do things because we have more information and more
1:50.6	experience behind us. But there's still something special about someone who has just begun
1:57.2	and has a little bit more experience than we do. That's why in the Beginners Garden Shortcut
2:03.1	Facebook group, which is a free Facebook group if you're not a member yet, I hope you'll join
2:07.2	us. I asked the question to second time gardeners, those who are starting their garden for the
2:13.6	second time this year. What was your biggest lesson from your first year?
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