Welcome back my friends to the Beat Podcast. Today we have Megan Lloyd on the show, a friend from Instagram.

She's Meg Gross Plants on Instagram, but I think we first connected because you were talking about houseplants a lot back in the day, right?

Yeah, yeah, even had a whole different username. It was once a quant of filler dendron.

Oh shoot, you're ready. I forgot about that.

Okay, so talk to me because we're talking about today how you kind of started your garden.

Obviously houseplant people, gardening people, sometimes we're on the same, sometimes not, right?

Sometimes people just obsessed with indoors. So how did you shift from, I guess, either just houseplants or houseplants in garden?

How'd you get into that?

Yeah, I guess the big shift happened when we bought our house because before then I only lived in apartments.

When I was in college, it was an apartment. And then I lived out of the country for a little bit and an apartment again, but that's actually where I started my first patio garden.

So I've kind of like dabbled with houseplants and gardening for, I guess about six years now, but I'd had smaller patio gardens before when I was in apartments, just kind of things like peppers and herbs and things like that.

But then when we bought our house and I had this big backyard was when I kind of, my passion kind of shifted a little bit like my passions have always been plants.

I still keep all my houseplants and things like that, but I just felt like more in love with outdoor gardening.

Yeah, so a function of basically getting enough space to express the passion, right?

Yeah, to really go for it, because I mean, I went for it.

As soon as we got back, what does it look like now?

Yeah, like when I first started, so I guess I guess I'll start by saying we bought our house in 2020.

It was November of 2020, so then I prepared all winter for the garden.

And then I started the garden officially the spring of 2021.

And I just started with two super cheap metal raised beds from Amazon.

I think they're like 50 bucks piece or something, but they were two, six by three beds.

And I installed those and I just planted a bunch of different random things like peppers, tomatoes, different herbs, barely any flowers my first year.

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