A Gardener At The End Of The World

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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The COVID-19 lockdown changed the way Margot Kelley practiced gardening. Not only did it become the most hardcore gardening year for her, it also gave her more motivation to cultivate life. By buckling down in the summer, she was prepared for winter. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/49bq2XGBotanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3TXjOGuBook Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3vw9iwCEG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3vyHszKLearn More:5 Ancient Gardening Methods That Work in the Modern GardenConnect With Margot Kelley:Margot Kelley is a vegetable gardener of 20+ years based in Maine and the author of A Gardener at the End of the World, a memoir about gardens, seeds, and viruses written during the pandemic. Her other gardening books include Foodtopia: Communities in Pursuit of Peace, Love, & Homegrown Food, The Meadow (with Barbara Bosworth), and A Field Guide to Other People’s Trees. Website Instagram Margot’s new book (publisher site) Margot’s new book (Amazon) Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order.Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A lot of us listening started gardening during the last maybe three or four years
0:18.9	during the pandemic that happened starting in the beginning of 2020 and today's guest did not start growing
0:26.2	then she actually started growing over 20 years ago we have Margo Kelly on the show
0:30.8	Vegetable Gardner of 20 plus years based in Maine, but she is the
0:34.2	author of a book called A Gardner at the End of the World, which is a memoir about
0:38.9	seeds, gardens, and viruses written during the pandemic.
0:43.2	So it's cool to have you on, Margot,
0:45.1	because you have such an experience growing.
0:47.6	And then I'd love to dive into like what the lockdown time kind of brought out for you with your experience in the garden.
0:56.0	Sure, thank you so much by the way for having me on.
0:59.0	I'm really excited about it.
1:01.0	So yes, I've been gardening for about 24 years and at first I started with
1:06.0	like the typical vegetables people start with so lettuce and kale and tomatoes
1:11.2	a couple of herbs.
1:13.8	And even though I'm gardening in Nune,
1:15.7	which is not really the most good climate
1:18.7	for things like tomatoes, it was a perfect year.
1:21.9	We had exactly the right temperatures, the right amount of sunshine,
1:26.4	and so I thought, oh, I'm great at this. And so I started growing more and more and then 10 years ago we moved and we moved to a place that was completely open bare ground and we could decide what to do.
1:40.0	So we sighted a bunch of garden beds and we edged them with granite so that they would start the spring earlier because that would warm up the soil and then it would kind of delay the onset of the first hard frost.
1:54.0	So we moved a mile and a half down the street,
1:56.8	but we gained about two weeks of gardening time
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