Hello everyone welcome back to the epic gardening podcast today we are here again with

Stacy Murphy of grow your own vegetables dot org she has helped tens of thousands

of people on six different continents grow veggies and herbs and today we're talking about

What do you do when you actually have so much in your garden that you don't even know where to begin and as we move into summer this is super timely because

we're in a time of the year where no matter what zone you're in at the very least your garden is

getting into full swing and at the very most you probably have had a couple

different harvests by now and you're thinking about putting in some new stuff.

So Stacy, what would you say, and I'm sure you probably have a story of Garden Overwhel

yourself, but what would you say for someone who looks out at their garden is like, oh my gosh,

there's so much going on, I have to prune, I have to weed, I have to do all this stuff.

How do they kind of chunk that down and get a little more sanity back?

Sure. So the first thing I would say is what a great problem to have. You know, we just have to

appreciate it for a moment because I know gardening what you invited into your life and it's an exciting thing

you're growing your food you're enjoying your harvest and then all of a sudden there is more things on your

to-do list and so the first thing is what a good problem to have because if there's

overwhelm that usually means that there's also an abundance of harvest coming your way. So a little bit of gratitude can go a long way to just sort of settle your mind a bit and say like this is exactly what's supposed to happen, a moment of gratitude for the time of season that it is,

because a lot of times when people are overwhelmed in the garden, it's because there is a progression where basically the insects, the plants,

everything just explodes all at once because the conditions are right for that

explosion.

And so there will be another time when everything slows back down and you're going to be thinking

back and wanting the peak harvest that was just passed. So I feel like the first step is really just

being aware that this is a special moment and having some gratitude for the good problem that we have

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