Making Gardening Easier For Yourself

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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There are small ways to make massive gardening projects much easier. Divide your projects into their main parts. Plan out how you’re going to work through your project. Ask for help from friends and family. Overall, have fun! That’s how it’s supposed to be.Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4aA2CfWBotanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4aENk9xBook Collection Page: https://growepic.co/4aIKmAREG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3VNIi6rLearn More:Ecotherapy: How Trees Make You HealthConnect With Perla Sofía Curbelo Santiago:Perla Sofía Curbelo-Santiago is a professional garden communicator from Puerto Rico. As the founder of Spanish language gardening platform Agrochic.com, she promotes gardening for wellness. She is the author of the new book ¡Verdura! Living a Garden Life, also in Spanish. After earning degrees in Psychology and Public Relations, Perla was certified in Horticulture Therapy from the Chicago Botanic Garden. She popularized the importance of pausing and relaxing through a #GardenBreak. With this hashtag, she shares how to use nature and gardening-based activities to maintain physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Instagram Website Resource Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order.Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	As spring starts to come, it can be very overwhelming to figure out all the things that you want to do in the garden.
0:20.3	There's the basic tasks of starting seeds, transplanting, pruning, fertilizing,
0:25.2	building your beds. Then there's like the larger things. Maybe you want to put in a garden pathway.
0:29.2	Maybe you're looking into a chicken coop and all these projects can really build up and freeze you in your
0:36.1	process. So sometimes you might just put one off for the entire season or you might be
0:40.3	very stressed out about a particular project.
0:42.8	So that's what we're talking about today.
0:43.9	We have Perla Sophia Corbela, Santiago,
0:46.8	on the show, a professional garden communicator
0:48.8	from Puerto Rico, and a certified horticultural therapist.
0:52.4	So we talked over the last couple episodes parallel about, you know,
0:56.1	stress in the garden, gardening for wellness.
0:58.6	Now we're kind of getting into the practical a little bit and perhaps maybe start us off with how your work has helped you make
1:07.5	gardening easier for your own self. Well definitely divide dividing every kind of projects that I want to do, because what happened was that I
1:20.8	I want, I put in my mind that, oh, I want to do this project, but if I didn't have everything in place,
1:31.2	I felt and start feeling bad because it took me so long to do it or maybe never did it at all
1:40.0	and what I started to do was like,
1:42.6	let me divide this huge project
1:47.4	into three areas.
1:49.2	You know, there's this part of gathering the information and the inspiration that can come from television,
1:56.7	from from social media, YouTube, and because there are so many things that you start looking at and you're like,
2:05.0	you're like, oh, I want to do that,
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