When DIY Gardening is a Bad Idea
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
I’m big on DIY, but there are situations where it makes more sense to get a bit more professional in the garden. In today’s show, Stacey Murphy of Grow Your Own Vegetables is on to talk about when DIY goes wrong.
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Stacey Murphy of GrowYourOwnVegetables.org. She’s helped tens of thousands of people on 6 different continents grow vegetables and herbs.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone Kevin from Epic Gardening here? We're back again with |
| 0:05.6 | Stacy Murphy of Grow Your Own Vegetables.org and the upcoming Superfood |
| 0:10.8 | Summit which I'll be doing a pretty long presentation on growing seven different micro-green. |
| 0:15.7 | Some of them are pretty basic and some of them are pretty out there and experimental. |
| 0:19.2 | So stay tuned for that and you can always look at that in the podcast description if you're interested in tuning into that. But today we're talking about why sometimes doing |
| 0:27.7 | a DIY garden project or garden technique or strategy might not be a good idea. You know I'm a big or intuitive thing and just really curious Stacy what you have to say as far as why |
| 0:46.5 | shouldn't I DIY something. Awesome yeah and I'm a huge fan as well I'm one of |
| 0:51.6 | those people who I learn as I go so I totally get it. I like |
| 0:55.9 | the process of learning which is what I think a lot of do-it-yourselfers like as well. So one of the big things that happens with do it yourself is that you go into Google or YouTube and hello giant universe of information. |
| 1:12.0 | And once you enter the Google universe you |
| 1:16.7 | might get 17 different perspectives about how to do one thing. |
| 1:22.5 | And oftentimes when you see that information, |
| 1:26.2 | they haven't really necessarily told you |
| 1:28.0 | the underlying assumptions why that is what works for them. |
| 1:31.2 | Oftentimes, it's just a description of of here's what I did and you can follow along with me. |
| 1:36.4 | And so what happens is you say, oh that looks simple, I'll try that, but what you didn't know |
| 1:40.6 | is that that person lived in a totally different climate or |
| 1:43.7 | that person had access to a totally different resource than you did or they |
| 1:47.8 | have a different value in terms of how what they value in the environment or and so what happens is you |
| 1:56.2 | Follow us a strategy blindly without really understanding the bigger implications |
| 2:01.5 | Sure and things that come to mind for me is when someone tells you how to grow something, |
| 2:06.0 | but they don't tell you their conditions. |
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