What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. I'm Kevin and I'm here with

Rob Greenfield. We're back again and today we're talking about some just beginner tips for gardeners who were kind of just

starting out in their journey a couple episodes ago or maybe even last episode we

talked about you know people thinking they have a black thumb after a few attempts at gardening and how that might

not be the most helpful approach or mental model I guess to come into gardening with.

And so Rob's going to drop some knowledge on us. So Rob what do you have for us as far as as tips for a beginner?

Yeah, so this is an area where I actually feel like I'm somewhat of an expert at being a beginner because I'm still a beginner but I'm a successful beginner.

You know I'm at a point where I really just started heavily gardening less than a year ago but I'm already

to the point where I'm growing and foraging a

hundred percent of my food where I've turned you know over you know seven front

yards into gardens and I've figured out how to grow a good amount of food but I'm

still very much a beginner I really just started in the last year so I can still

relate to all those basic questions of like just being boggled of where to start like how much sun does it need how much water does it need you know when do you plant seeds like just all of these hundreds of questions that kind of like for you

can almost can feel like they kind of like freeze you and you don't know where to go

that a lot of beginner gardeners like myself had and so that's where I'm kind of coming from is

helping people I want to help people basically get past those those beginning

boundaries and and start growing food.

Yeah, yeah, I mean, so that's fantastic.

So what what sort of work for you I guess back when you started out?

So I I think that one of the most well one of the absolute most important things that I did take my own advice on is seeking local resources

So find finding people who are growing food in your area is one of the simplest

way to just totally jumpstart your journey because you can talk to them and find out what works well.

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