The Garden Starts in January

Roots and Refuge Podcast

Jessica Sowards

Home & Garden, Leisure

5 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Hey, y'all! Join me for episode 50 of the Roots and Refuge Podcast.

In today's podcast I'm excited to talk about getting back into the garden for 2024. I talk about my strategy of waiting until after the holidays to begin my garden planning, seed shopping, and general dreaming for my favorite season of all. Planning the garden is easily my favorite part of the dreary winter season, so listen along to hear my thought process and to talk about why it's so important to deeply understand WHY you are gardening!

In this episode, I also share with you my earliest memories of gardening when I was younger, and the unfortunate sad story of my first attempt at gardening. I am glad to share that I didn't give up after that challenge, and I am still here to share the rest of my gardening journey with you today. Becoming a gardner has had a profound impact on me and my whole life. I hope you'll join me in learning to become a gardner together!

Thanks so much for listening. If you’d like to join our Patreon page, you can get early access to all our podcast episodes and monthly live Q&As with Miah and me (including past lives). Visit our Patreon Page to learn more and check out past episodes of the podcast on the website.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, what's up?
0:07.9	Welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast.
0:10.3	I'm your host Jessica Sauer.
0:11.5	It's my friends call me Jess, and I hope you will too.
0:14.0	And I am so excited to be talking to you guys today.
0:17.1	After a few week break, it was much needed.
0:20.0	It was good.
0:41.1	I feel rejuvenated and refreshed here in the new year, but I definitely missed making podcasts. So here we go. Jumping into the first podcast of 2024 where I want to talk about surprise the garden. Now I've shared recently on the podcast that I wait. I deny myself the garden. Now I've shared recently on the podcast that I wait. I deny myself the garden until after the new year. I get through the holiday season and just wait, even thinking about it,
0:47.1	planning for it. Sometimes I'll get into buying seeds a little bit before then, but I even try to
0:52.5	wait to do that. I managed to wait this year and I do
0:57.3	that because the doldrums of winter are very difficult for me I have seasonally just really
1:03.3	struggled with this time of year as far as kind of getting into a funk and feeling overall very gray
1:09.9	and the hope of garden planning through
1:14.2	January and February it just it brings some relief to that so we are now in the throes of that I am
1:21.4	thinking about the garden regularly I've been walking through my garden every day not today
1:26.9	because we had really severe weather today.
1:29.2	I actually did run out there, but it was not a leisurely planning walk.
1:33.5	It was a mad dash to the greenhouse to make sure my ceilings were okay.
1:37.5	I am really, really taking my time during this season to soak up the longing for the garden and really plan
1:48.4	looking back and looking forward. Today, talking about the garden, I kind of want to just share
1:54.5	a little bit of my experience and my journey into becoming a gardener. And for those of you
2:00.7	have been with me for very long,
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