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. Good morning. Well, I say good morning. I'm not sure when you're listening to this today, but as I'm recording this, it is 6 a.m. on a.m. on a summer morning. And I'm trying to get this

episode recorded for you guys before my kids wake up. It's just one of the things about working

from home when I have my kids at home. And actually, my husband's off work today too. So I'm trying to

be a little bit quiet in here. But I wanted to talk to you guys today about something that I think

we all need to do every year. And that is to stop and pause and think about the lessons that we're

learning through the garden season. We think that we're going to remember everything. But the truth is,

and I've told you guys this before, if you are a long-time listener to

the podcast, that we will forget. And so like I did last year, I'm doing a special episode of

lessons I learned from my spring garden. As I record this, my spring garden is coming to a close.

I'm harvesting a lot of my cool weather crops. Many of them have already

bolted and I'm getting full on into summer gardening mode. But before I move on in my mindset to the

summer garden, I want to stop and pause and think about the things that I learned in my spring

garden. And because we can always learn from each other, I wanted to pass these lessons on to you.

So today I'm going to be talking about 10 lessons I learned this year from my 2019 spring

garden. These are really in no particular order. Some of these were wild successes. Some of these

were utter failures.

And I'm just going to share them with you as they came to mind. So the first one is start lettuce indoors for an earlier harvest.

If you have listened to past episodes, you know that lettuce is on the list of crops that

I have never recommended that you start indoors because they're so

easy to direct sew into the garden. And it takes up space in that grow room that you need to be

using for other crops that have to have an indoor start like tomatoes or peppers. So it's not

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