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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

How to Plan Your Garden Harvest

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

This is part 4 of the 5-part interview with Michael Bell. Michael is a teacher, Texan, competitive bodybuilder...and an urban farmer! In this episode he talks about how he thinks about planning his urban farm, and what lessons he might give to home gardeners who want to get better at planning their own gardens. Reach out to Michael Bell mbell971@yahoo.com Keep Growing, Kevin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up guys? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. My name is Kevin and I am bringing you

0:06.0

episode four of five with Michael Bell aka The Bodybuilding farmer.

0:13.0

I'm just kidding.

0:14.0

That's a ridiculous name I know.

0:15.0

But in this episode, we are talking about one of the most confusing parts of small and large scale farming for a lot of people including myself at times

0:24.3

which is how do you actually plan your garden and especially when you're running in

0:28.6

urban farm and you actually really need to make sure that stuff comes out of the ground at certain periods of time.

0:34.6

How do you actually plan that and make sure you're going to have all the supply that you need

0:39.3

for your customers?

0:40.9

And you know, if you don't run an urban farm that's fine just take these

0:43.8

lessons that you listen to in this upcoming episode and apply them to your own

0:47.4

garden that's what I'm going to do so without further ado let's get into this section of the podcast.

0:55.0

I figured let's get a little practical.

0:56.8

Let's talk a little bit about how are you,

1:00.8

what's your approach on the farm?

1:02.3

It's a small farm. How are you planning what you want to grow and you're backing your dates out and doing all that sort of stuff?

1:08.8

Because I know at least for me and for other people that are just growing for themselves,

1:12.8

sometimes that planning can just get a little hairy and a little out of control.

1:17.2

So it'd be interesting to see how you tackled it.

1:19.2

That's the hardest thing that I've found to do is to plan. I didn't grow anything. I literally shut the farm down July 31st because it got over 100 degrees and everything just it was just too hard to grow and I

1:36.7

needed a break and I was wanting to clear more land so I just shut everything down and I

1:41.1

worked all of August getting ready for September 1st to start growing again.

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