My Best Gardening Advice
Roots and Refuge Podcast
Jessica Sowards
5.0 • 646 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Hey, y'all! Welcome to episode 61 of the Roots and Refuge Podcast.
In today's episode I'm sharing my best gardening advice for both new and experienced gardeners alike. Since spring has sprung where I live, and I know it's just around the corner for you northern folks, I thought this was the perfect time of year to give a highlight reel of the key lessons I've learned as a gardener. Whether you're just starting out or you just need a bit of a reminder after years of gardening, these tips are sure to get you excited about this season's potential.
Firs thing I want to explore is the importance of considering the value of your harvest beyond just dollars. What you grow has a huge impact on how long you stick with it! Why are you growing it? What are your plans for using it when it's ready to harvest?
I also love talking about how I've 'debunked' the companion planting myth in my own garden. Ultimately, if you're planting diversely you'll probably succeed by creating a balanced ecosystem. But don't stress too much about it, balancing your gardens ecosystem is a years long goal that comes from focusing on good stewardship.
Finally we talk all about the crucial role of soil health and the benefits of feeding and covering your soil to create that balanced ecosystem in your soil that fosters robust plant growth.
Don't miss out on this episode packed with essential gardening wisdom! And be sure to check out the mentioned blog post on how to make compost tea for even more valuable insights.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm your host, Jessica Saurz, and here on my podcast, we talk about all things, food growing, homesteading, raising animals, growing gardens, preserving, preparing, and enjoying that food as well as just trying to live a little bit more mindfully in relationship with each other and with the earth. |
| 0:27.7 | I post new podcast episodes every Wednesday on all major platforms as well as lots of other media on the other platforms. |
| 0:35.5 | We have a YouTube channel called Roots and Refuge, |
| 0:38.2 | as well as a YouTube channel called The Farmer's Table. And then my husband Sweet Maya has a channel |
| 0:44.2 | called Maya's Workshop. We're putting a lot of stuff out there, hopefully encouraging all of you, |
| 0:50.5 | equipping you to what degree that we can. if nothing else just letting you know you're not |
| 0:56.2 | alone in this journey so I live in the Midlands of South Carolina today is a beautiful |
| 1:03.0 | 70 degree sunny day I think we are I hope I should say I hope we are over the worst of the pollining. It's been a rough few weeks for those of us who have allergies. You can probably hear a little bit. I'm not 100% over that. We're not 100% through it. But I think that we're over the worst of it, which is great. And this week, we're spending spring break with the kids, having some really lovely weather. |
| 1:33.2 | And I have been plugging away in my garden. |
| 1:37.8 | I haven't transplanted anything out yet, but it does appear that we are past our risk of frost. We still have a few coolish nights, |
| 1:47.5 | so I'm kind of waiting before I move everything out. But it's definitely spring and feeling |
| 1:55.4 | very much like it. We're having births on the farm and the seeds that we have sewn have started popping up. |
| 2:03.0 | The potatoes are, I don't know, the plants are probably four or five inches high. |
| 2:07.0 | I think there are killed or nests all over the garden and in the pasture. |
| 2:12.2 | It's just an extremely exciting time to spend on a homestead. |
| 2:16.9 | I love it. It's definitely the top of the roller |
| 2:21.5 | coaster, you know, I feel like these weeks leading up to this point are kind of the click, |
| 2:26.3 | click, click of climbing up. And we're about to dive into the craziness of the high season of a farm. There's just a lot of work, long hours, and we're |
| 2:37.7 | getting into that right now. It's just really beginning. Today I wanted to talk to you guys |
| 2:42.7 | about the garden very specifically. And of course, I talk, I guess, about like the philosophically about the homestead and why and all these |
| 2:54.7 | different things but I do like to kind of have some practical conversations sometimes I I love the |
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