Analysis Paralysis

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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It’s easy to get overwhelmed with all the available information about gardening. While you might see a lot of conflicting messages, it’s more important to have a strong foundation. Experiments don’t usually lead to problems. This is what Emily Grohovsky tells her clients as new gardeners. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3yxCyE6 Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3QQ16Pk Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/44KhkPF EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3WRJTc5 Learn More:Raised Bed Gardening: 7 Beginner Tips Connect With Emily Grohovsky:Emily is a self-taught gardener who owns a thriving kitchen garden business in Madison, MS. She and her husband, Brad, build and install custom, turnkey, raised-bed kitchen gardens and then Emily teaches her clients how to grow food in them. Her motto is "green thumbs are not natural. They are learned." Her goal is to teach anyone that they too can grow fresh, organic food without all of the overwhelm. Website Instagram YouTube Zone 8 Planting Calendar Shop the StoreAs 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. 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 YouTube (Including The... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When you go out in the garden, there's so much going on that you start looking for solutions like,
0:18.7	oh, why is my tomato leaf yellow and why is this not growing so fast and you start looking online
0:24.7	you get overwhelmed by all the information out there and this is something that seems like
0:29.5	you've run into a lot so I'd love to talk to you about this next sort of the trap of analysis paralysis
0:35.0	yes the rabbit hole of the scary net right so when I started gardening during COVID, that was really my journey began.
0:47.0	I am not a master burner, I don't have a horticulture degree, like I'm purely self-toff.
0:52.0	I was a mom with two little boys under two who were very active and
0:57.0	I needed something to do outside for myself and for them and so I just started gardening.
1:06.9	And a lot of what I learned was from YouTube and you know Instagram gardeners and watching the videos and such. Well then I started learning
1:12.3	terms like companion planting and interplanting.
1:15.0	I'm like, oh, what is this?
1:17.0	Well, I'm a rule follower.
1:19.0	I'm the first one, so I would go on my website and it would say,
1:22.0	always plant your green beans with your strawberry. I would go on my website and it would say,
1:22.6	always plant your green beans with your strawberries.
1:25.3	And the next thing would say,
1:27.7	never plant green beans with strawberries.
1:30.0	And I was like, oh my gosh, no matter what I do,
1:32.4	I'm going to do it all.
1:33.8	And so there is a little rebellious side of me too,
1:37.7	which finally I was like, you know what,
1:40.1	just this, I'm not even going to listen to any of this and I'm just going to start planting stuff, which was so interesting
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