Q&A: Where do I start?

The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

Jill McSheehy

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

4.4 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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So you want to start a garden, but where do you begin? I started in the fall and I was able to read all the books on gardening. But if you’re listening to this in the Spring, you may not have time for that! In this Q&A, I have some great resources for you!

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0:00.0	In today's Q&A episode, I'm going to address a question I've been getting a lot lately,
0:05.9	and that is, where do I start? I think because of this pandemic, so many people are starting
0:12.3	gardens for the first time, and so they are beginning from scratch, which is exactly where I
0:18.3	began seven years ago now. Well, I'll tell you where I started. I started
0:23.3	by devouring gardening books, but I also started in the fall when I had plenty of time to do that.
0:30.0	If you're listening to this in real time in April 2020, then you know that you don't have
0:36.7	months and months to do a lot of research. So in this quick
0:40.4	Q&A episode, I'm going to be listing to you several resources that you could choose from to be
0:46.5	able to get started in your garden. And I'm going to be listing these links in the podcast
0:52.6	description below. But before I get to those resources, and I'm going to be listing these links in the podcast description below.
0:54.8	But before I get to those resources,
0:56.8	and I'm going to be sharing with you
0:58.6	several different ways that you can learn,
1:01.8	whether that be free or paid or a book
1:04.6	or an online course, just, I know a lot of us learn different ways.
1:08.7	So I'm gonna be sharing with you several different resources. But before that, I just wanted to give you a place to start. I think the first place
1:15.7	that you need to start when it comes to growing your garden is you need to understand what your
1:21.2	garden goals are. Do you want to produce food that you can eat fresh during the growing season?
1:28.0	Do you want to have food to you can eat fresh during the growing season? Do you want to have food to preserve?
1:31.1	What types of food do you want to have on hand?
1:33.5	And I always recommend you start with what are you currently eating?
1:37.5	What does your family enjoy eating and start with that?
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