Q&A - Staying at Home and Need Garden Supplies? 10 Ways to Get What You Need

The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

Jill McSheehy

Gardening, Garden, How To, Education, Organicgardening, Home & Garden, Leisure, Homegardening, Beginninggardener, Vegetablegardening

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🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting all of us, more people have become interested in gardening. But many new gardeners are encountering unforeseen struggles as they seek to start planting -- namely in acquiring garden supplies.

We are all trying to avoid stores as much as possible, but many online sources are back-ordered or not even accepting orders right now. If you've run into these struggles in finding much-needed garden supplies, here are options to consider.

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0:00.0	Where can you get gardening supplies these days? Whether it's soil, compost, seeds, plants, or other supplies,
0:09.0	it's not as easy to get what you need these days. With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting all of us,
0:16.0	finding garden supplies has become quite a challenge. We're trying to avoid going out if at all possible.
0:24.1	Some online sources are back ordered or are not even taking orders. And gardening itself has
0:31.6	experienced an amazing resurgence. So you have a flood of people needing supplies this year that have never needed them before.
0:40.5	All of those factors are coming together to equal this perfect storm of sorts.
0:45.7	I have received many questions on where you can get your basic gardening supplies right now.
0:51.6	That's what I wanted to address in today's episode. Keep in mind that all of this
0:56.8	could change even by the time this episode goes live. But I'm hoping that I can give you enough
1:02.7	ideas that maybe I can give you something you hadn't thought of before and something new you can
1:07.7	try. I do have to thank the members of my free Facebook group,
1:11.7	the Beginners Garden Shortcut, because this is the question that I posed to them a couple of weeks
1:16.3	ago. Personally, I didn't have a whole lot of supplies that I needed to get. I ordered my seeds
1:22.2	way ahead of time. I had already started them. I have most of my supplies already on hand.
1:29.5	And I live in Arkansas,
1:35.6	and at the moment, we are one of the few states without stay-at-home orders. So we're a little bit less restricted. Borrowing from my own experience and the suggestions of those in the
1:41.4	Beginners Garden Shortcut Facebook group, I'm going to offer you
1:44.5	10 places that you might want to consider to get some of your garden supplies in this situation
1:50.3	we're in right now. Number one, I highly recommend, and so to many others, that you contact your
1:56.4	local garden center. These many times family-owned stores are more than happy to be able to
2:03.3	place your order on the phone or even some online. I've also seen examples of
2:09.5	having a personal shopper that they will shop for you and then you can go and they
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