Best Location for a Vegetable Garden - Choose the Best Position

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Picking the best location for a vegetable garden, herbs, or fruit trees depends on your growing climate and land. I walk you through the steps I take when putting in any new plants, beds, or moving ones that haven't been thriving so you can choose the best position for your garden with the 4 basic microclimates every yard has and how to identify microzones easily in the winter months. Resources at https://melissaknorris.com/235 Get the Family Garden Plan for step-by-step planning, growing and harvesting a year's worth of food http://familygardenplan.com

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1:25.2	Welcome to episode number 235. In today's episode we're going to be talking about choosing the best location for your
1:37.5	garden and putting in new garden beds or new plants. Now you may already have an existing
1:46.6	vegetable garden, maybe you're moving to a new location or maybe you're putting in a
1:51.5	garden for the very first time.
1:54.6	But regardless of that situation,
1:57.8	even myself having two plus decades of having a vegetable garden and we're on our property our current
2:05.2	vegetable garden and our current property we've been on here since 2006.
2:09.4	So for 14 years I have had my vegetable garden and it's been in the same spot and I'm not moving it
2:16.8	But usually if you are a lifetime gardener you are going to be wanting to put in some new plants
2:25.2	maybe not some new plants maybe you're going to want to be putting in a new bed or
2:28.8	too so this advice is going to behoove you really no matter which one of those categories that you fall into.
2:39.3	Let me welcome you to the Pioneering Today Podcast.
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