Check in with yourself before you checked a gardening activity from your list

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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There are ways to adjust what you do in the garden to make the practice of gardening safer and more enjoyable. Sometimes it’s as small as winding up a hose. Other times it’s a matter of moving some of the garden’s main features. These minute changes can make so much difference.Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/49quSk1Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3PSl9frBook Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3vCUCvJEG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/49sVu3ELearn More:Ecotherapy: How Trees Make You HealthConnect With Perla Sofía Curbelo Santiago:Perla Sofía Curbelo-Santiago is a professional garden communicator from Puerto Rico. As the founder of Spanish language gardening platform Agrochic.com, she promotes gardening for wellness. She is the author of the new book ¡Verdura! Living a Garden Life, also in Spanish. After earning degrees in Psychology and Public Relations, Perla was certified in Horticulture Therapy from the Chicago Botanic Garden. She popularized the importance of pausing and relaxing through a #GardenBreak. With this hashtag, she shares how to use nature and gardening-based activities to maintain physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Instagram Website Resource 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	Let us now talk my friends about how to kind of just enjoy the garden in a
0:19.0	sustainable way how to make sure that you and your garden kind of are progressing in the way that you want to over the years and over the seasons we have
0:27.4	Pardla Sophia Kurbelo at Santiago back on the show professional garden communicator from Puerto Rico. She actually has a new book as well. I don't think I've mentioned that yet.
0:36.8	Paralo sorry about that. It's called Verdura living a garden life also in Spanish and
0:41.9	she's on top of that a certified horticultural therapist from the Chicago Botanic
0:46.2	Garden so you know we've gone into these different topics about our relationship to ourselves and how that also inter relates to the garden.
0:56.5	And today we were just talking you mentioned something really interesting there's
1:00.9	like a hose sitting in your garden and maybe you
1:04.1	could just talk to me about that because I relate to this very much. Yeah. You know again things that you
1:11.0	keep talking and telling people,
1:13.0	hey, make sure you don't do this,
1:15.8	you do it or you experiences yourself.
1:18.8	So I have this 100 feet hose in my in my back jar that of course I I when I bought it I bought it because I live in this area that in in this space that I have a backyard but also a front yard but the water
1:37.6	it's just in the in the backyard so I needed a longer hose but now that my gardening is concentrated in the
1:47.6	back jar I don't need a host that that. But what happens instead of changing for one that is shorter,
1:57.0	I still am using the same one.
2:00.0	So that sometimes I let it right in the middle of my path area.
2:07.2	So every time I see that hose that is not organized,
2:11.9	I get frustrated. I get mad and get, you know, like, oh my God, I have to deal with this. So a few weeks ago, I order online a host reel so I could take that off not only from my path but also from my mind again and of course it's a safety issue you know I can I had stumble
2:38.8	so again those are the changes that you, it's not just about going outdoors and start gardening.
2:47.3	It's also made those adjustments that will help you, you know, in your safety and also to enjoy your garden even for longer periods.
2:57.4	I think about this it's so funny you mentioned the hose thing because I think to myself I sometimes I'll talk to
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