EP: 423 Homesteading 101 Series (Back to the Basics): Gardening

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

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

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Join me as I continue on in this Homesteading 101 Series (Back to the Basics). Today’s episode is all about the basics of gardening. Which ultimately means understanding the basics of soil. You don’t have to be a soil expert, or a biochemist to understand how to know if your soil is good (or how to amend it, if needed). However, if you don’t pay attention to your soil quality, it doesn’t matter how many other gardening skills you acquire, you’ll continue to struggle if your soil quality is poor. I’m giving you all the basics you need in today’s episode, plus many links for additional resources. For more information and any links mentioned in this episode, visit melissaknorris.com/423.

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0:00.0	If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them,
0:06.4	I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make
0:16.2	sure that you are registered and signed up for our herbal summer series. This is completely free, though you definitely could charge for it because it is
0:28.2	packed with information. Once you sign up starting in August, every week you are going to get an email from me going over my top 10 favorite herbs.
0:40.0	Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb,
0:47.8	but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
0:56.9	We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.
1:02.1	So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by
1:06.2	that point in your medicine cabinet my favorite top 10 herbs to always have at the ready. Go to Melissa K Norris.com forward slash
1:18.2	summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better.
1:30.8	Hey pioneers welcome to episode number 423. Today we are starting our homesteading 101
1:40.3	series and today we're going to be starting that with the topic of gardening.
1:46.3	But where I really want to dive in deep to this episode is actually diving into the soil,
1:55.0	understanding what type of soil that you have,
1:57.8	how that influences the choice of gardening beds
2:01.5	that you may or may not choose and really diving into that nuance because I feel that there is a lot that is covered on seed starting.
2:12.0	I have tons of different videos and blog posts on that to help you with seed starting.
2:17.6	There is a lot that we'll talk to you about first and last frost dates. I've got episodes on those. I feel like a lot of those
2:26.8	beginning basic gardening things which are essential and are important to actually
2:32.4	getting a harvest in a thriving garden have been covered.
2:36.0	But one of the areas that I see actually both from your comments when we first announced that we were going to be doing this series and getting your feedback.
2:44.0	And that was actually one of the comments that people said that they would love to see a moron that's not talked about quite as much.
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