Today's Q&A question comes from Melissa.

Melissa is a student of my online course Dream to Garden,

and as she was working through the planning elements of her garden for this summer,

she started thinking about travel, and so this is her question.

When doing this module, I kept thinking about summer travel.

I know I will be out of town a few times during the summer,

and I worry about

leaving the garden. Any tips with travel in ensuring your garden survives? This is such a good

question and it's one that I honestly have to consider with every garden because travel is

important to me even though a lot of our travel has been restricted due to

COVID the last couple of years and I know a lot of things at least for our

family are up in the air this summer travel is still something that we need to

consider if we are going out of town during the garden season and I think there are a

lot of different approaches to this. I'm sure different

gardeners do different things. And it also depends on what kind of garden you're growing. Personally,

for me, I plan in advance. And so I plan my vacations around my garden season. I know when

it's going to be a lighter time for my garden so usually I will plan to go out

of town during those times so the times that I know that I'm going to be really

busy in the garden especially with harvesting and preserving season I try to

avoid going out of town during those times if at all possible and sometimes I

will plan certain plantings around when I think I'm going

to harvest something. For example, one year I delayed my corn planting because I didn't want to be

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