Plant Friends, I think we all know that there are a lot of lessons to be learned in the garden.

And that's twofold. That's literally how to garden and how to grow food and reconnect with our food chain and deepen our relationship with nature, but also

the life lessons that we learn in the garden that I'm sure you're all familiar with that I wax

poetic about on the plant Side chat series on this

podcast. I am so excited to deepen my gardening knowledge this summer with my

first garden series on the Bloomumengeo Radio podcast

where I troubleshoot and try my first shot

at outdoor gardening outside of the tiny balcony

garden that I have had since I've launched this show.

So I'm going to be bringing on different gardening experts

throughout the season to talk to and figure out

how the heck do I take my indoor plant knowledge,

my container plant knowledge,

and move it outdoors into raised beds. So when I realized I wanted to do

a raised bed garden, I knew I needed to talk to Nicole from Gardenary. She is an amazing gardener and actually a teacher of garden coaches and she builds the most beautiful raised beds that look like art in a lawn.

I asked Nicole if she would be kind enough to give me my own garden

coaching as I embark to design my first garden and she obliged and we had such an amazing conversation.

I really feel like it was interesting,

this conversation was mostly troubleshooting

garden planning and garden design and how to make a tomato trellis

and where to put the boxes and what configurations to put them in,

but it also turned into a bit of a therapy session and I am interested to hear if any of

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