Hurry Up and Grow with Erin Schanen | The Beet

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Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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On this episode of The Beet, Jacques chats with Erin Schanen of The Impatient Gardener about how she got her start in her mom’s garden, what she’s growing now, and what projects she and Jacques happily put off. They dig into the lessons gardeners everywhere can learn from her over two decades of hands-in-the-dirt experience – wins, flops, and all. It’s all about trying things and seeing what works! Connect with Erin Schanen: Erin Schanen is the gardener, writer, and video creator behind The Impatient Gardener, a trusted source of inspiration and straight talk for gardeners all over. With more than two decades of experience in her southeastern Wisconsin Zone 6a garden, she shares real-life wins and flops with practical advice and a sharp sense of humor. A Master Gardener and multiple gold medal winner from GardenComm, her garden was also featured in the best-selling book American Roots. Find more from Erin at her website: https://www.theimpatientgardener.com/ Find more from Erin on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheImpatientGardener Support The Beet: → Shop: https://growepic.co/shop → Seeds: https://growepic.co/botanicalinterests Learn More: → All Our Channels: https://growepic.co/youtube → Blog: https://growepic.co/blog → Podcast: https://growepic.co/podcasts → Discord: https://growepic.co/discord → Instagram: https://growepic.co/insta → TikTok: https://growepic.co/tiktok → Pinterest: https://growepic.co/pinterest → Twitter: https://growepic.co/twitter → Facebook: https://growepic.co/facebook → Facebook Group: https://growepic.co/fbgroup → Love our products? Become an Epic affiliate! https://growepic.co/3FjQXqV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, and I think the lesson is that it doesn't matter, you know, just go out there and go out there and do it.
0:07.2	And what's, you're out, you're out a little bit of time, you're out a few, a few bucks.
0:13.4	Big deal, moving on, you know, try, you know, try it a different way.
0:17.2	I think if people get too caught up and the idea of what if I, what if I screw it up?
0:22.8	Well, yeah, you're going to. So if you're not screwing it up, you're not doing it right. So it's my theory.
0:27.4	Just get out there and be ready to screw it up. You'll figure it out there.
0:33.6	Welcome back to the Beat podcast. I'm your host today, Jacques. And today we're speaking with Aaron Shannon, the Inpatient Gardner, which I really like that name. Maybe we'll dig into that a little bit. But she's a great person. We actually got to work together up in Maine on this Home Depot project. And she's always been a great time. I love chatting with you, Aaron. So today, I'm very excited to talk to you.
0:54.8	Why don't you give everyone a little background and like where you're growing, what zone you're
0:58.0	in and sort of what style of Gardner, I guess, if you want to define yourself.
1:02.3	Well, hi, Jack. Thanks for having me. Nice to see you again, although virtually this time.
1:09.4	So I live in southeastern Wisconsin.
1:14.0	I am kind of on the borderline between zone 5B and 6A.
1:18.2	The USDA Hardness Zone map in 2023 bump me up to a zone 6A.
1:23.7	It is a highly questionable, like every gardener, I approach those zone changes with a lot
1:30.9	of trepidation and suspicion, frankly. So, but I live here. I'm a few hundred feet from Lake
1:39.0	Michigan, which provides an interesting microclimate here. And I do all kinds of gardening.
1:45.0	I grow vegetables.
1:47.0	I do all kinds of, I love container gardening.
1:52.0	I do all kinds of different styles of gardening from kind of over the top cottage style garden to I've got another portion of my garden
2:03.5	that's quite naturalistic. So I kind of do whatever kind of gardening I feel like doing and I find
2:09.3	a way to make it all work together. Yeah, I have to say I really do love your garden. Whenever I see,
2:16.7	watch your videos. I love how full and layered
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