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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Personalities and How They Manifest in Your Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

A gardener’s personality is directly related to how they organize their growing space. Emily has clients who need the tidiness of rows, along with those who simply let the strong survive. There’s no right or wrong way to do it! Give yourself grace and you’ll succeed. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4bJGOic Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3WNlGn4 Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3V3ly1A EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3WJSLQM Learn More:Raised Bed Gardening: 7 Beginner TipsConnect With Emily Grohovsky:Emily is a self-taught gardener who owns a thriving kitchen garden business in Madison, MS. She and her husband, Brad, build and install custom, turnkey, raised-bed kitchen gardens and then Emily teaches her clients how to grow food in them. Her motto is "green thumbs are not natural. They are learned." Her goal is to teach anyone that they too can grow fresh, organic food without all of the overwhelm. Website Instagram YouTube Zone 8 Planting Calendar Shop the StoreAs 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. 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 YouTube (Including The Beet Podcast,  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We are back with Emily Grohovsky and today we were talking about something that

0:18.0

super interesting I love it is how does your personality manifest itself in the garden because I don't know there's a lot here so I'm gonna let you kick it off maybe and then maybe I'll talk a little bit about my personality in the garden because it's kind of all over the place.

0:33.0

Yeah, I'm a little bit of a hodgepodge gardener myself.

0:37.0

So I really love watching my clients set up their gardens, think about how they want to do their gardens,

0:46.7

organize their gardens, because I can tell very quickly within meeting somebody and

0:52.0

talking to them like I can almost

0:53.8

picture kind of like how their garden will look and a lot of times it's like how

0:57.6

their house looks but it's just the way that in which we organize things and so I just love watching people's strengths come out immediately and then also

1:08.8

Encouraging them to like kind of explore other ways of doing things and become comfortable with that

1:16.6

or give some pushback you know so I have my clients that I meet and I'm like oh we're

1:20.8

definitely doing their lettuce in rows and we are spacing them with the ruler.

1:25.0

Exactly. Yeah, straight lines.

1:27.0

My clients who, then I have my clients who will like take a handful of seeds and throw it over their shoulder and call it a day.

1:34.0

And then I did meet with one lady one time and I said, I asked her question, I was having a feeling

1:39.9

that maybe her issue was not watering enough. And I said, do you water and she said oh I have a Darwinian

1:46.6

approach to all of this so you know whatever lives lives and I was like okay you do you so it's just been really interesting to watch people's

1:55.7

personalities come out in the yeah I guess for me like I was trying to think of an

2:00.8

analogy since we're on the analogy train is that my gardening

2:04.6

style if you saw my my browser tabs and my inbox it's pretty close to my garden

2:11.9

style it's like all the options are still

2:14.9

there. Nothing has been removed. Like I haven't deleted anything. Like it's all

2:19.9

here. It's but then but then reality kicks in I'm like oh now I can't find where that

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