Best Tips for Beginner Gardeners

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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If you’re still starting out in the garden, Jordan and Kevin share a few tips that they wish they knew when they started growing. Connect With Jordan Mara: Jordan is the founder of Mind & Soil, a company that provides natural and organic gardening products and has a mission to help 1,000,000+ people connect with the mental health benefits of gardening. Mind & Soil Facebook Instagram YouTube Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast. Hope you're doing well. Hope
0:16.7	your fall or winter is doing well and maybe you're still gardening, maybe you're not. Either
0:21.1	way, a good episode today to think about the 2022 season, especially if you were a recent
0:27.5	beginner in the gardening world. So Jordan is back on the podcast from Mind and Soil. Jordan,
0:33.4	you know, you started gardening and sounds like about 2013 or so, right? Yeah, that's right. And
0:38.1	then I'd say like really started getting into it with my own space 2016. Yeah, interesting
0:43.8	how similar those stories map because I, you know, I left my job in 2016 to go full-time
0:48.9	in Epic Gardening. So it's kind of an interesting like trajectory we both have here. But, you know,
0:54.2	were I still honestly consider myself maybe a somewhat advanced beginner in the world of
0:59.9	gardening because it's just so hard to know everything and learn everything. And, you know, I do
1:05.0	have some seasons under my belt. You have some seasons under your belt. I'm curious if you have
1:08.1	any tips for beginners that you wish you knew at the start. Yeah, totally. So, you know, when I go
1:13.8	back to that first season and I literally, I remember I got one tomato off of my vine and it
1:21.7	tasted so bad. Like I didn't feed the soil anything. It just like it tasted so papery. So the
1:29.7	kind of takeaway or learning from me on that front was like to start really small and to not be
1:35.7	focused on the harvest or the yield. And I think that, you know, like we see a lot of these huge
1:40.4	big bounties on Instagram and YouTube, etc. And like that's after like five, six seasons worth
1:46.5	of gardening. And so in those, you know, very first years really focus on enjoying the process of
1:54.0	getting the hands dirty, being off of technology disconnected from all that. Just less like kind of
1:59.9	nervous system being lit up by all these notifications and whatnot and something more simple.
2:05.0	And then over time that bounty, that harvest is going to increase.
2:08.3	Yeah, I would say it's difficult even today for me to do that because I do love technology and I do
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