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is it too late to start a garden Episode 25 of the Grow Your Self podcast

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It's never too late to start a garden, because there's always something that can be growing there

Episode 25, Grow Your Self Podcast

"It's too late to start my garden this year, right? I'm just going to have to wait until next year."

"I feel like I totally missed the boat, I should've started my garden back in April, but I was too busy."

"Oh, I so would love to have a garden like yours, but I missed the timing. So, I guess I'm just going to have to wait until next year."

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These are all the comments I'm getting across the internet and even from my neighbors. I thought that I would dedicate episode 25 of the Grow Your Self podcast to the question; "Is it too late to start my garden this year?" In this episode, I have got some very good news for you. You guys know, I love to break the rules, right? I like to write my own rules and I'm going to teach you how you can do that in your own kitchen garden, too.

It is never too late to start a garden. Don't believe me? Well, you got to listen to this episode.

We are a quarter of the way to a hundred episodes. That is pretty incredible. Thank you for joining me here. I just looked the other day, we're at 35,000 downloads. Thank you so much for subscribing, and for reviewing the podcast. If you haven't done that already, please do. This episode is brought to you by the brand new Gardenary Garden Coaching. This has been a dream of mine for years to start the Airbnb of gardening. So the goal here is that you can go onto the garden site and find a garden coach who will help you that day in your own garden, wherever you are. You're going to be able to book a session with a garden coach that has been trained by me inside of Gardenary, and they're going to use our methods, our principles, and help you either design your garden from scratch, deal with the trouble that you're facing, create a planting plan that you want to use in your garden this season, or in the seasons to come and so much more. I'm super excited to introduce you to Gardenary Coaching. You can go to www.gardnary.com/coaches to check it out. I'm going be showing off a lot of our coaches. Gardenary coaches get ready, get set, we're going to coach you in the garden and you're going to be inspired to garden after you listen to this episode, let's dig in together.

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At What Point is it Too Late to Start a Garden?

Welcome back to the Grow Your Self podcast, episode 25. What in the world is happening? How have I gotten to record 25 episodes? If you get a chance, please send me a DM on Instagram and tell me how many episodes you have listened to, and which one is your favorite? We're going to do a compilation episode coming up soon here of "the best of so far," so I can figure out what you guys like to listen to.

We are talking about timing in the garden. Is it too late? Are you out of time? Do you have to wait until 2021 to get a garden going? I don't think so, and I've got some statistics, data, and some opinions to show you what I mean.

Today I'm going to be reading to you quickly from chapter five of my book, Kitchen Garden Revival. Chapter five is all about timing and planning.

So let's dig in and go.

"Before we set up our plant categories, let's take a minute to get to know your climate a little bit better than you may have lived in your current space for a few months, years, or perhaps your whole life. You may have never noticed each month, as you are about to. Picture your garden as a guest house for plants, each guest has particular needs and wants, this much space to spread out, this much time to stay and it needs the temperature to be just so, all right. Do you guys love sleeping in the cold or the hot? I got to know. I love being warm. Personally. Plant gas can be just like my children picky by learning your climates, temperature, rainfall, and sunlight measurements for each month. You're going to know which guests can stay each month and for how long. Consider this step, like the booking calendar for your garden, deciding which plants are welcome to stay and which ones just might not be made for your guest house. Lots of gardening experts will tell you to first learn your garden zone before planting, but honestly, garden zones are much too general to inform you of what's technically possible. And the unique space that you have created. I have gardened in so many different climates and what the books say I can do in a particular zone. And I experienced in my own garden are often two very different things. Plus gardening zone specify a first and a last frost date. As the most significant times of the year. Leading new gardeners to believe that they can only grow between those two days."

{See, it's this issue right here. This is a side note. This is why people get this idea that it's too late.}

"In truth the only information the frost date reveals is when the cool season ends and the warm season begins. There's so much more to the kitchen garden than zones and prostates. This is why over the years I developed my kitchen garden seasons system. The best way to know what's possible in your unique garden is to know your garden seasons and the best way to know your seasons is to understand the general weather for each month of the year. This exercise is so much more detailed than his own number and will be more specific and helpful to your unique location. Not every month falls exactly into the same season all month long, some months can be split between two seasons, but unless you live in the Arctic or on the equator, every town or city, no matter the climate has an arc to its Seasons. There's the coolest part period. Then the warmest period, and then usually two periods in between those more extreme seasons."

For instance, in Houston, we'll call this a warm climate. There's a long, cool season. The coldest time, if you can call it that, then a warm season, then a hot season, and then another warm season, repeat. And in Chicago, there's a long cold season, very, very cold, a cool season, a warm season, and then another cool season and repeat most other climates have the same arc coldest, warmer, warmest, back to warmer, and then back to coldest.

Here's the ticket. You ready? It's the two in between season's that most gardeners miss. In fact, the gardening resources I first studied led me to believe I could only garden in that warmest season of the year. So while the majority of growing can certainly happen during that period, there is lots of growing that can happen on either side of it too, especially those in between seasons and Houston's case, the two warm seasons and in Chicago's case, the two cool seasons, more growing seasons means more time to grow.

I like the sound of that. Don't you?"

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I don't believe that you're stuck to only grow during the period between your two frost dates. This goes back to my hangup with the garden industry being centered around products, they're going to heavily market garden products to you in the Spring, starting January, February, March. they're going to try to sell all their inventory by May and then they're going to back off. We experience this all the time when we're trying to place orders for clients in the middle of the summer and everything is sold out. It's like, they just assume that the world's going to stop gardening in July because they stopped running commercials for it.

Listen, it is never too late to start in the garden because of the arc of the seasons, because there are things that can always be growing in the garden, even if it's covered in snow. I mean, it's not technically growing at that point, but it's sitting there ready to grow whenever the temperatures rise. In this episode, I want to really encourage you to start a garden right now. If you've not started a garden yet for 2020, you've got to do it this month. And if you have started a garden, but you had a dream of an expansion, I want to encourage you to do it now, don't wait.

I'm going to tell you why and give you this step-by-step on how to make your garden happen this season and not next year.

If you listen to the Girl Who Planted Gardens episode, I tell you the story of our family's garden and how we started different gardens at different times and the different places we live. Well, part of that story is that way back in 2011. The Summer of 2011, we started our first backyard garden in Nashville, Tennessee. We attempted a row garden and the day that we built it was July 4th. Jason was finally off of work and could help me. I had three kids at home under three, with me every day. So not a ton of ability to do a lot, so he helped me dig the rows. We started our garden and, and that was our first season. We had a lot of fails. We planted all kinds of things, we tried tomatoes, we tried carrots at that point. We tried potatoes, beans, zinnias, sunflowers. I want to say we did some radishes, and peppers. We tried a lot. We tried some things from seed. Some things from plants. We were literally just experimenting and we knew we were pressing our luck because it was so late in the summer.

If you go back and listen to that episode, you hear how we learned our lesson. Because we jumped in and started that season, we did not have the most productive year, particularly because we were not paying attention to the types of plants that we should have been putting in. We just went in and planted things that really should have gone in, in May. I'm going to show you how not to do that in this episode. But, nonetheless, we still had some great success.

We had loads of beans, tons of basil, lots of zinnias and even potatoes. Our corn, different story, but, in tomatoes as well, but we did have some success and we learned our lesson. So fast forward the next Spring, we had this confidence that we built from moving forward and trying it out. So the next Spring we actually built raised beds, I say we, Jason built raised beds. You can get that whole story on that episode, but basically we had a lot more success that second summer. Then we found ourselves the following summer in Houston, Texas, so different location entirely and basically brought the knowledge that we had gained, and the experience we gained in Nashville and brought that over to Houston. So, those two summers in Nashville were incredibly important in terms of the future of myself, of Rooted Garden, and where I am today. It all started with that crazy July 4th experiment.

When Is the Best Time to Start a Garden

The time to start is always the moment when you have the idea, even if you're not ready. The more you get to know me, you'll realize I do this with pretty much everything. Especially, in the garden just last week, I had some potatoes, I knew I wanted to plant potatoes in my garden. We had great success with them last year, but I planted potatoes last April, end of April. That's really the better time to plant them here in the Chicago area. And I don't know why, but I just put off getting them and getting them ready. And before I knew it, it was the start of June and I was putting potatoes in the ground.

Now, I know good and well, I am way too late to be putting potatoes in the ground. They should have gone in at least a month or more earlier, but here's the deal. I can either not plant to any potatoes. And just say, "Oh, too late. I'll wait until 2021." I definitely won't get any potatoes, or I can plant potatoes late and see what happens. So, I may end up getting potatoes. I may end up getting two, three, four off of a plant. We'll see, I'm going to give them the best conditions I can and baby them and, and help them along and see what I can get. And then, let's say we get to September, August, September, and I'm ready to dig the potatoes and I don't get any well, that's the same result I was going to get anyway, if I didn't go for it. I might as well experiment and try, there's really very little to be lost. What did it cost me a couple of dollars to get some seed potatoes and I'll get to watch and see, and learn.

I'm going to get to learn to see how can they weather the hot weather? When do they pop up? Do they grow at a different rate when they're planted basically at the very beginning of, the summertime. I want you to take on that same kind of perspective, which is one I could not do it at all and wait until next year. And the result will be zero, zero learning, zero experience, zero experimenting, but also zero failures. Or, the second option is try and you may end up completely failing. But you're going to have so much experience inside of that 60, 90,120 days that you go for it. I hope you will choose option number two. I'm going to show you how to make that happen right now.

In my book, Kitchen Garden Revival, I discuss how you want to imagine your yard, your garden space, like an Airbnb. So you want to be thinking, okay, I am looking for plants that want to live in my space. Just like, you know, someone creates an Airbnb and let's say they make it super hip and they make it, you know, like lots of windows and there's like a hammock. And you know, they live out in the woods and you know, they're trying to attract a certain person to come visit there. And depending on where they set up that Airbnb, if it's on the beach or in the mountains, they're looking for a person that likes that kind of air, that kind of setting, while you're thinking that too, anytime you're setting up your garden, whether it be in the middle of the summer and the middle of the fall, the winter, whenever it is, you're thinking, okay, what plants enjoy this kind of hotel or this kind of home.

And that's what you're going to focus upon. So, it's pretty neat to think that plants are all kind of set up from the very beginning with particular needs and all different kinds of plants have all different kinds of needs. The general four categories.

I like to consider when I'm thinking about a plant is the sun need, the space need, the time need, and the temperature need. So how much sun do they need? Do they need four hours of sun, a day, six hours, eight hours, more, 10 hours? Who knows how much sun does that particular plant need? And then generally, how much space does that plant need? Do they need a few inches? Do they need a whole square foot? Do they need several square feet? How much time is it going to take for this plant to finish and grow to the point where I can harvest from it?

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To Know If It's Too Late to Start a Garden, Consider 4 Things

Is it going to take 30 days, 45 days, 70 days, 90 days, a year. Then, what kind of temperatures does this plant thrive in? Does it like it when it's cool? Does it like it when it's hot? Does it like it somewhere in between? Those are the four questions you want to be asking about the plants that you're ready to grow. So let's say you're going to start a garden in July. So everyone listening that doesn't have a garden set up yet. This is your moment. You're going to be thinking about, what are the things that like the temperature that I'm currently living in and the sun and the space and the time that I have to give it. You're going to prioritize the plants that thrive in that setting. When you do that, it is going to set you up for success, no matter what time of the year you set up your garden.

Let's say I wanted to grow a tomato and it's July 1st. I know that tomatoes in general, like at least eight hours of sunshine, depending on the variety, but in general, they all thrive with more than eight, eight or more hours of sun. I know that tomatoes need at least one, one and a half square feet of space. I know that most tomatoes, if I buy the plant will be ready to harvest in about 60 days. I know that they like temperatures that range from about 65 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit. So wherever I'm living, I can look around and say, do I have a little spot that can afford a tomato plant? All these things. Do I have a spot that can give a tomato eight hours of sunlight, more than one and a half square feet of space, at least 60 days to give me some tomatoes and are my temperature is below 85 degrees or right around there, not super, super hot.

So, if I'm in Houston on July 1st, I'm not going to put a tomato in the ground because it's too hot, the high temperatures are over 95. If I'm in Chicago, I'm going to consider it because if I get a tomato and it's going to finish in 60 to 65 days, I can add 60 to 65 days to July 1st. And I'm at just about September 1st or September 15th, maybe even to the end of September and having lived here at least one or two Falls, I know that it's still in the seventies and eighties in September. So I've got a match. I've got an Airbnb, a plant BNB match, right? I know that I can put a tomato in the Chicago area, It's going to have the right time, space, sunlight and the right temperature.

Now let's take another example. Let's say I'm going to grow some okra. So, when I look at okra, I know that it likes at least eight hours of sun to 10 hours. I know that okra is going to take up a minimum of one square foot, maybe two. Okra likes to finish up in 90 days, or more, and that it likes super hot temperatures. So it likes temperatures that are over 90, 95 degrees. It's meant to thrive in those temperatures. So in my Chicago garden, I will not be planting okra at this point. If I wanted to grow okra here, I would have to get okra in the ground very early here in order for it to grow to its full maturity. About 90 days from from July 1st is going to put me into October and I know very well that the temperatures start to drop quickly and that the sunlight does as well.

So okra is going to be something that I should have started in May or June. It doesn't mean it's too late to start a garden entirely, it just means it's not the time to start an okra garden. But, if I live in Houston and I'm in July 1st, it is a perfect time to plant okra because I know I've got a good 60 to 90 more days where the temperatures are over 90 degrees. I've got loads of sunshine because we're closer to the equator there. So we've got at least 12 hours of sunlight every single day. I know that from now, July, all the way to October, even into November, we've got plenty of time for the temps to mature the okra.

I'd say "yes" to okra in Houston and no to tomatoes, "no," to okra in Chicago and then vice versa for the tomatoes. So you're going to run this question all the way through whatever things you want to put into your garden at any month in the year for wherever you live. I can do this today. I can do this same question and answer in August and September and October for anything that I want to grow. It works every single time. And the great thing about the system is there's always gonna be something that works in something that doesn't, and it means that you can always have a garden. You can always start a garden. It's never too late. It just matters what you put into that garden. So if you come to me in the middle of August and I'm in the Chicago area, and you say I'm too late to start a garden, right? I'm going to ask you back. Well, that depends. What do you want to grow in your garden? And so if you then say to me, well, I want to grow tomatoes in my garden. Then I'm going to say, yeah, you are too late to grow tomatoes in the Chicago area. Because 60 days from now, 65 days from now, we're going to get cold weather.

So yes, too late to have a tomato garden here in the Chicago area. But if you say, well, I want to have a carrot garden or a radish or a lettuce garden, then I'm going to say "nice timing." You're right on time. Because those plants have the right sun space time, and temperature needs to be grown from August to September, to October and a cooler climate. You get it, isn't this cool is such a better way to look at the garden.

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You're going to prioritize the plants that thrive in that setting. When you do that, it is going to set you up for success, no matter what time of the year you set up your garden.

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To Know if It's Too Late to Start a Garden, Ignore the Marketing

You know, marketing can really screw us up sometimes. Don't you think? I mean, they make us think that like, we need to get a diamond every Valentine's day, it makes you feel like you have to do things at certain times, or they just don't count. It's funny, but I think marketing can really mess with our heads more than we realize. And I've definitely noticed this as a garden coach and consultant and a teacher. And honestly, even watching when the phone rings for my company Rooted Garden. My products and courses for Gardenary, I can tell when the marketing is pushing the general public to think it's time to start a garden. We'll get way more calls in the Spring, March, April and May, then we will in October, November, when in the reality in Houston, November is actually one of the most wonderful times to start a garden because there's so many things you can put into the garden that will thrive during the cooler parts of the year. Don't be fooled by the marketing and just because things are sold out or no one's talking about gardening anymore in terms of their commercials. That does not mean that it is too late.

The last thing I want to say about the plants is that even if you're not lining things up with those four items in terms of sun, space, time and temperatures, you're going to be surprised at some plants are just resilient. I cannot tell you how many times I have planted something or shared something on Instagram and the critics will come in and say, Oh, it's too late for that. Or that doesn't grow during that season or it's going to bolt or whatever. And then I end up having some success with it. Now, is it like stellar success? Like could I feed the world on my harvest? No. but it is really fun to kind of push the limits and to see what's possible.

I find so often that when I try something that's on the edge a little bit. I eat my potatoes, I get to learn. I get to see how strong these plants really are and honestly get to marvel at nature and the wonder of it and how plants literally are dying to live. I love to say that plants are dying to live. They want to live, they want to keep themselves alive and they want to reproduce, that is literally in their DNA. It's so fun to watch, you'll see, even if you plant things at not the optimal time, you will literally get to watch this plant. Even if you don't get the perfect production, you're going to learn so much about the plant, about its resilience. You may get some production and then the most important part, you're going to get to learn and watch the plant, and it's life cycle.

Even if the numbers don't line up perfectly for you in terms of sun space, time, and temperature, and you just want to try something like my potatoes, just go for it. There's no police that are going to come get you for planting stuff at the wrong time. It's fun to get to experiment, to get to see what's possible and to treat the garden more like a place of learning and experience rather than a place where we have to get everything right. So put that away from you, just see it as a school, a classroom where you get to experiment and have fun.

The next thing I want to talk about is what drives us to, to hold off. The marketing for sure does, it tells us that it's too late to start a garden, but there's some other things and I teach a class about garden goals.

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The Biggest Thing That Keeps You from Starting a Garden

One of the things I talk about is how oftentimes people will say they don't have time for a garden. I know for myself, the things I "don't have time for," are things that are either boring to me, are overwhelming to me, or are just not interesting to me.

I highly recommend watching Biggest Little Farm , it will absolutely open your eyes to the wonder of the garden, if it's boring, if it feels unimportant to you, I highly recommend watching some documentaries.

I love reading books about the importance of gardening. So you guys, if you've been listening for a while, my first book was Animal Vegetable Miracle. That book totally opened my eyes to the importance of the garden and the importance of eating local. So, if you haven't read that book, it's great. Food Inc was the first documentary I watched that opened my eyes to the way food was produced in the US. So just doing something like that, to kind of open your eyes, to see how important it is to have a garden in your life. If it's overwhelming, which is generally the reason why people procrastinate or put stuff off until "next year," then you've got to get some garden coaching. So that's why we exist. That's why I'm here.

There are courses available on our Kitchen Garden Academy, you get step-by-step instruction, you can join my short workshop called the Kickstart Workshop, you can also get one-on-one garden coaching. The heart of my business model is to remove the overwhelm. Gardening inside of a community with a coach and a teacher is the way to remove the overwhelm, to have someone literally guide you, and help you through every single step of the way. I'm basically going to diagnose your procrastination. Is it because you're overwhelmed? Are you bored? Are you just thinking it's not important? I find if I can address what is at the heart of me waiting, then I can go; Okay, I'm just going to go ahead and try it. So, if if that's happening to you, figure out the thing that's holding you back and then just kick it in the tail and go for it.

I want you to pretend like you are a Pioneer this summer. You just got to your new land and it took you way longer to get there. It's the middle of July, or the beginning of July. What would you do if you just landed? You need to settle this land and survive the Summer, Fall, and Winter coming up. Are you going to wait to start growing something next year? No, you're not, you going to jump in, you're going to hurry up and plant whatever you have available. And, you're going to try to get as much out of the land as you possibly can, learn all that you can, and be ready for next Spring.

If you want to start a garden or expand a garden, I want you to pretend you're a Pioneer this July, and I want you to put some seeds in the ground this month. If you're in a warm climate like; Texas, Florida, Arizona, or the Southern part closer to the equator, you can really grow year-round. In Houston, we never shut the gardens down. We have just a few days where there's a threat of frost and we are literally growing all the time. In Houston, I can honestly say it is never too late to start a garden. If you're in a moderate climate, your frost dates cover three or four months of the year, then you can garden, undercover well into those frost dates. You can only close the garden down for about two months out of the year. A cold climate would be like Chicago, we are actually under frost dates, from the beginning of October all the way to the middle of May. In that case, we do have the garden shut down unless you've got a greenhouse or a cold frames, for about three or four months. But that doesn't mean we don't have things underneath those covers are even underneath the snow that are settling in and growing, even when it's not necessarily growing, but they're sitting there ready to grow when the snow melt. Things like garlic and young carrots and cover crops are all there ready for you as soon as you can pull off the covers and plant. Here, in Chicago I was planting in February, if I had not set up my garden earlier, I would have missed a huge window.

Steps to Start a Garden in July

Here is how you are going to make it happen.

First, Understand your current season and the temperatures coming your way over the next three months. Take some time and chart the temperatures that are coming your way in the next three months. If you haven't bought my book yet; Kitchen Garden Revival , you should, it will help you through this process. Figure out which plants are going to grow well over the next three months and your garden then. Meet the needs for sun, space, time and temperature.

Check with local suppliers first, like the farmer's market, and local nurseries. See what seeds and plants they have for you that will work in those three months. Buy from them first, then you can order online as quickly as you possibly can, and build your garden as quickly as you can. It doesn't have to be perfect, done is better than perfect — that's going to be the goal.

My last recommendation for getting set up and going is to grow the shorter season things that are going to be ready to harvest within 45 to 60 days. I always recommend starting with leaves; lettuces, spinach, all kinds of greens for the salad, and sautéed greens, herbs, etc.

Then, add simple things like beans or peas, anything that's going to be finishing up within 50 to 60 days. So you can look if you're at a seed store, or local nursery, check the back of the seed packages and see how many days to maturity. That means how many days until you get to harvest. You want to really be focusing on these things, especially for this current season that you are going to grow up and finish up faster. So we're looking for short, small plants or more medium sized plants are better to kind of squeeze in mid-season.

I don't want to hear anybody ever again say that it's too late to start a garden, because it's never too late.

You have to get the timing right for the particular things you want to grow in your garden.

I like to say that it's always a good time to set up your garden, then based on what time of year it is, you can decide what to put in your garden, but it is never, never, ever too late to set up the garden. When you do that, you are setting yourself up for success.

That means whatever season is coming your way, whatever weather changes, you have the base there, ready to go and you can adjust as needed. The hardest part is flying blind, or not having containers or raised beds, or your kitchen garden area set up at all. If you continue to put that off, then you'll have no idea what's going to be happen this time next year or next spring, that might prevent you from doing it once again.

I highly recommend to all of you, please commit if you haven't yet to setting up your garden right now, set up your garden this month, and then you can decide using my method, what plants you're going to put in there, given your current season. Make the most of this season, don't let it pass without getting your garden set up.

The Cost of Being Late Vs The Cost of Waiting

If you listen to The Girl Who Planted Gardens, this was the timeline. Jason and I set up our garden in the Summer of 2011. We started in July, we learned a lot of lessons. It wasn't Instagram worthy, let's just say that. Then, in 2012 we used what we learned. In 2013 we moved to Houston and set up our full raised bed and had tons of success that Fall. So, we had that success all through 2013 and 2014. It was in 2015 that I started Rooted Garden .

I was thinking, as I prepared this podcast, what if that July 4th, we decided, you know what?

We're just gonna wait, we'll wait until next year, it's too late.

We've got babies, we're stressed, you're barely off work.

We're in a rental home, it's super hot here, we don't have the ideal conditions.

We don't have a lot of money to do this.

Well, we've never done this before.

We have no idea what we're doing. And clearly like our neighbor, she's killing it — She's got tons of stuff growing already this is just kind of embarrassing.

Let's just wait until next year.

We'll start next summer and we'll do it right.

Don't Wait to Start a Garden

What if we had done that? I think well, if the next year we had waited, by that point, Elaine, my youngest was four or five years old. So it was even harder that first summer, and I was pregnant. She was super hard to deal with. That would have been a much harder season to start a garden. We would have not yet learned the lesson for our need for a raised bed. We learned the lesson for the need for a raised bed by starting with a row garden.

I tracked it back and I thought, well, what if we waited until 2014 to start the garden? We would have started with a row garden. Then when we moved to Houston, we wouldn't have yet had any success with a raised bed. So what we have even tried to raise bad. What if we had been too overwhelmed and frustrated with our experience in Nashville and we just called it quits altogether, who knows what would have happened?

What I do know is by going for it that first July, and just digging in and making it happen in some form or fashion, it got us going. I love it! — One of my favorite coaches says; "You don't have to get it perfect, you just got to get it going." That first summer got us going, and the rest is history. That is why I'm here talking to you today. I can really literally attribute so much of my passion for the garden, my love for the garden and my gardening success to the fact that when we had the desire, we did not worry so much about the timing and the fact that it wasn't perfect and we just went for it.

I hope this encourages you to go for it, too. Please don't wait another year. It is not too late to start a garden. It's never too late to start a garden, get that garden set up and then determine what you're going to plant in it based on the timing, but never ever, ever wait to start a garden, because you don't think the timing is right. I'm here to support you. I cannot wait to see the garden that you start or expand or make awesome this summer.

Thanks so much for listening to the grow yourself podcast. I love you for it and I'll see you next week.

All right. I hope you are now so excited to know that it is never too late to start a garden. Don't forget that today's podcast is brought to you by Gardenary Garden Coaching . Hello! We are here to remove the overwhelm, the questions, the frustrations. So if you're ready to start your garden in July, it is never too late and we are here to help. Check us out, all the coaches that are there to help you in your garden at gardenary.com/coaches.

Thank you guys so much for joining me today on the Grow Your Self podcast. I cannot wait to garden with you all year long because you know what? We're going to be gardening all year long because it's never too late to start a garden. I'll see you next time.

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