Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening podcast Kevin Espiritu here. We've got Amy Bauer back on the show. She is front yard veggies on Instagram. All her links are in the description. So Amy, you had a kid your first kid, right?

Last year and on her bad day, so first and only kid, but that's a lot going on. So like a newborn is enough on your plate just as is and then with a move and then trying to get this garden going shovel and mulch for days from your chip drop. That's just a lot going on. And I don't have a kid, but I understand the feeling and I'm really curious. How did you actually get all of this stuff done at the same time, almost like a garden productivity tip. Yeah. I will.

I my number one productivity tips for anything in your life, like we planned our wedding with this. We planned our cross country to cross country moves actually with this first one from Brooklyn to Santa Monica and the second from Santa Monica to Massachusetts. It's this app called Trello TR-E-L-L-O. It's like a project management tool on and it is.

You can make it whatever you want, but it really is helpful to just break down past. You can have, you know, little columns. You can have different boards. You can you can make it whatever you need it to be on that has just been instrumental. I sort of I like having a paper to do this, but you know mom's out there. You'll know that sometimes you can get to a notebook and you'll think of something and if you don't write it down that minute, you will forget it. So you just have an app on your phone. You can put in.

I don't know like fertilize hanging baskets, which I'm looking out the window and I'm realizing I need to do that tomorrow morning on.

So I have some sort of project management tool. I also do a bullet journal, but Trello is really where I did all of the gardening tasks. So I had like lay down cardboard, mulch, call for a chip drop like anything that you can possibly think of is on my gardening Trello board.

So that's my number one tip. Just sort of get all of your thoughts somewhere because mom brain, you will forget it. Like I think my short term memory is maybe 50% capacity of what it used to be.

Yeah, because I mean, I'm just thinking I mean, like I said, I obviously haven't had a kid, but but I'd imagine just with the amount of sleep that you're not getting.

You're forgetting everything all the time probably. Well, let's not don't not shortchange yourself. You are after all potato daddy rose daddy.

It's true. I'm the daddy to a lot of things that's just none of them are human beings.

Yeah. And none of them have to worry about sleeping through the night. Although knock on wood, she has really been a great sleeper from very early on.

So I get a lot of sleep, which is nice. But I think it's just like you have so much other stuff running in the back of your mind always that, you know, you're like, how do I keep this smell a little human alive that the hospital sent me home with.

That's my number one priority gardening just fall way, way, way down. And you really have to prioritize.

I always joke that I have like math goals. So when she goes down her nap, I swear I can get more done in an hour than I used to be able to get done in an entire eight hours in my day because you really have to focus on like being efficient and just not really dallying.

So she'll go down for a nap and I mean, right now it's just sort of like running out to the garden, weeding harvesting stuff, moving plants from partial shade to full shade,

making sure everything has water, mulching, whatever needs to get mulch. We have a bunch of, you know, perennial plants coming up, I had to, I'm looking out, I have to print some hydrangeas.

Like there's just always something, especially now on a much bigger property. There's literally always something to do.

So I have a really hard time resting. They say like nap when you're baby naps and I don't, I don't do that.

But yeah, and then also thankfully my husband is really helpful in terms of, I'm not going to call it baby sitting because it's his baby, but he will take care of her, you know,

it's an entire day on a weekend and I can just really get outside the garden and recharge. I stay home with our daughter during the week, which is so wonderful, but it's also draining like babies take so much out of me that I think it's very important to carve out that time for yourself to, you know, do things that you used to do pre baby and not have your entire life just be in service of this small, wonderful, perfect little angel human.

You know, reminds yourself that like you're still a person and you have hobbies and you enjoy things outside of hanging out with your baby.

Yeah, I think to, to round this out just on that productivity side, a couple of things I was thinking about when you were saying that is number one and I know we're talking about this a little bit tomorrow, but it's what I ran into growing from a small garden to this big space and you did the same thing front yard veggies right in Santa Monica to this large space in on the East Coast.

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