228. Beginners Garden Shortcut | Jill McSheehy Returns |
Rockstar Millennials! My collection so far!
Friday February 23, 2018!
I never considered myself a millennial and the leader wrote a book about millennials, so now I don’t have a problem self-identifying because a lot of their
The Millennials: Connecting to America’s Largest Generation
thank you so much for giving me this opportunity I’m super excited to help gardeners
epecially beginners get startd with thier garden!
started this Beginners Garden Shortcut Online Course
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I felt there was a lot of info out there but not basic enough for someone who didn’t have a lot of info right out of the gate. I wanted to create something taht someone who was brand new to gardening could walk through step by step
help someone start
- first year
- second year
just need to start off with the clean slate
gardening for waste
Gardening can be intimidating to the new beginner. There are a lot of basic short cut tips can help you be more successful your first year. And if you are like me you might say I have a brown thumb.
Some of the most common questions
how long does the class take?
format
what I like to tell people, doesn’t take a lot of time and it’s self service so you do it when you want
college syllabus
see everything you get in the class
5 modules all about planning their garden
A lot of times people go to the garden center just take it home and plant it
module on
where to put your garden
whether you should plant
- in raised beds
- in the ground
- containers
why you want to garden
- depending
- how big
- what you decide to grow
why are you gonna garden
make a garden
5 videos
under 15 minutes
10 minutes or so
meant to walk you through step by step
garden planning process
planning your space
cool weather crops
- summer crops
- how to plant each of those
- problems you might run into
mulching
prunning
irrigation
lessons that go along with it
- print outs
- downloads
- link back to different episodes that are relevant to each module
module is talking about
class is formatted
also have something called the
Garden task list notebook
write in your last frost date
8 weeks to 6 weeks after that
week by
preparing your berry beds
buying your transplants
all based on your average last frost
I was gonna ask, you’re located… where?
I’m in
Arkansas
zone 7b
You average last frost is abit later then mine
little graph
take a calendar
what date
ideally plant 8 weeks before that
exactly what you would do to plant your garden based on your last frost date.
Do you want to mention what’s a cool weather crop versus a warm weather crop?
Yeah that’s a really good question
I deliniate between those
cool weather
warm weather
especially
require different planting times
- lettuce
- carrots
- peas
- potatoes
- onions
- blueberries
I count blueberries even tho they’re not cool weather we plant in the cool weather
in the cool
summer
- tomatoes
- peppers
- zuchini
- squash
- beans
I love all this because not only did I come out with our first product this year for black Friday, the 2018 Garden Journal and Planner, because it’s true. Look in the fridge, because if you don’t eat cauliflower no sense growing it just cause it’s at the nursery and the person says here check out these cute brussels sprouts if you don’t, and knowing the frost dates, and John Lee Dumas has his amazing Freedom Journals and smart goals but there’s no calendar in it that drives me crazy.
main s
one other thing that I have a
Simple Garden Planner
- a limited number of those in
- mail it to them for free
- spiral
- digital copy everyone will get
basically goes along with the planner
garden task list
- record keeping
- goals down
- calculate how many of what plant your gonna buy
This is the first year I really got serious about it partly cause I was doing the class I thought I should do what I was teaching
- calculate how many seed packets
- run out
- didn’t calculate correctly
- all that
- save a lot of time
walking you through that
some people aren’t as much planner
product
- walks you through it
- teaches you how to do it
- what I am doing
Especially if you’re gonna do any kind of succession planning, because I keep feeling like I need to get my arugula out before I go anywhere near the garden and separate the seeds and put them in envelopes and say these are going to go in this week and this week and label them ahead of time because if I take them to the garden I’ll just end up planting them all at once.
About your course! How much is it? When does it start? They can start any time right? There’s no start date.
- I may end up extending the deadline. What I am trying to do is get everyone enrolled before March 18th!
One thing I didn’t mention the thing I am most excited about!
The Facebook group goes along with this! But it’s also free to anyone!
In the Facebook group I go live every Wednesday with a garden demonstration from Feb to may
It’s a place for you walk through planting your garden with other people are there to answer them like me and others so it’s like a giant garden community!
One reason I’d like to get people enrolled by March 18th is because March is kind of when people really start planning their garden!
Instead of waiting till you’re ready to plant to start your planning!
Yes, it’s time to start planting in the windowsill, and it’s soon my husband will be plasticking in our porch and have starts going!
Yeah, we will be all that more successful!
There’s a lot of planning to make you more successful you need to start early
So I want them to have plenty of time to do that!
Price of the course
set themselves up with a successful garden
extremely
$39
That’s the self study portion
There are other options
bump up option
talk with
answer
questions
premium version
plan it for you
send you the date
self study
$39
access as long as you have the course up so you can go back and reveiw!
I was just talking to this guest Gabe Siciliano from Abe’s Acres and he was just talking to me about the essential part of keeping records and I also talked with Larry Tse from Dig Inns restaurant who said a similar thing!
It did remind me, when you were talking about record keeping
Simple Garden Planner
section in the back where you can write out what you did this year
comments
look at it next year
last year
I planted 2 plantings of corn
- which date I planted them
- how long they took to germinate
- what the results were from each planting
That really helped me to seem, I could plat my corn early April but the ones I planted a few weeks after that avoided some of the spring storms so next year I want to plant a little bit later.
- how much I planted
- do I need to plant more?
It was so helpful this year to look back see what I did last year to see whether it worked or if I need to adjust things.
That guy Larry pointed out, you may think you’re gonna remember but You’re NOT!!!
Can I read from your website?
How do they find it?
They can find it directly on my website or I’ll send a link to your website!
Click here to sign up for the
The Facebook group goes along with this! But it’s also free to anyone!
don’t have to purchase
search on Facebook beginner’s garden shortcut
request access
course it self
by going
super excited about helping people garden
I wasn’t a gardener before 6 years ago
mellow dramatic
gain as much joy out of garden
frustrated at the simplest thing
what does a potato plant look like when it sprouts out of the ground
gardening resources
assume a basic knowledge
garden for so many years
remember what it’s like
I remember talking to Lisa Ziegler when I first started and she was talking about her book
Cool Flowers: How to Grow and Enjoy Long-Blooming Hardy Annual Flowers Using Cool Weather Techniques and annuals you can plant in the fall and she asked me which flowers bloom in the fall and said I had to go look for them and there is a big difference between what it looks like in the spring and what does it look like in the fall.
Me, Im mostly interested in painting and eating the vegetables i the gardenn.
This year I’m going to be adding more flowers for a beneficial insect standpoint to cultivate an organic healthier garden my focus is for edibles.
That’s an important point for people that bringing in those beneficials.
purpose for vegetables
I have already seen how its worked out well that using organic techniques I do not as many pest problems!
My website is journeywithjill.net
and you can also listen to my podcast the Beginners Garden Podcast where you get your podcasts.
The Facebook group goes along with this! But it’s also free to anyone!
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