The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Welcome to the Beginner's Garden Podcast! This is the podcast with easy-to-understand resources, tips, and information to help beginning gardeners get the most out of their gardening adventure -- big or small. When I began gardening in 2013, I scoured books and Internet resources to find all the information I could. Although good information was abundant, I had trouble understanding all the gardening lingo and sifting through the information to figure out what would work for me. In this podcast,...
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Episodes (574)
488 - Two Easy Cover Crops That Changed My Raised Bed Garden
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487 - Fastest Fall Crops If You're Starting Late
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486 - Making Space for Fall Crops (when summer crops are still growing)
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485 - Potatoes, Carrots, Onions, & More: How to Cure & Store Root Crops
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
484 - Tomatoes, Cucumbers & More: Fridge or Counter? How to Store Today's Harves...
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483 - What I've Changed in Preserving My Harvest
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482 - Meal Prep from Your Garden with Crystal Schmidt, author of Freeze Fresh Me...
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481 - Wasps and Bees: The Invisible Work These Insects Do in Your Garden
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480 - Yellow Leaves, Bugs, and No Fruit: What to Do in the Mid-Summer Garden
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479 - Fall Garden: 3 Simple Steps to Start Now
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478 - Summer Watering: What Your Garden Actually Needs
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477 - What to Plant in June and July
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Questions My Garden Visitors Asked (and My Honest Answers)
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475 - The Problem with Sevin Dust
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474 - How to use what you're growing for extra income with Luke Hammond
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473 - What the Spring Garden Taught Me This Year
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472 - Cooking Your Harvest: Simple Secrets from a Disney Chef at EPCOT
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471 - Herbs All Season: How I Use My Garden Herbs Year Round — Fresh, Dried, and...
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470 - Planting Day: Peppers – when to plant, what to know, and exactly what to d...
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
469 - Cucumbers: How to Choose, Plant, and Harvest All Season Long
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468 - Pollinators: Are They Telling You Something About Your Garden? — with Disn...
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467 - Planting Day: Tomatoes – when to plant and exactly what to do step by step
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466 - Soil: What to Do Before You Plant Anything
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465 - Companion Planting While You're Actually Planting Your Garden
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464 - Planting Day: Potatoes – how to plant and what to expect as they grow unde...
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463 - Planting Day: Carrots - how to plant and what to expect the first few week...
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462 - How Early Is Too Early? Planting Cool-Season Crops With Confidence
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461 - Seedlings Not Growing? Why Mine Stalled (and the Fix)
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460 - How to Grow Better Potatoes: What Matters Most (and What Doesn't) with Ji...
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459 - Can You Trust AI With Your Garden? How to Avoid Bad Advice
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458 - One Garden Bed, Three Seasons: How the Planning Actually Works
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457 -Companion Planting Starts in the...Kitchen?
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456 - Endless Spring Salads: How to Plan Now
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455 - The Truth About Seed Starting Mixes with JoeGardener (and Why So Many Fail...
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454 - How Home Gardeners Can Save Money by Buying Seeds in Bulk (Without Overbuy...
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453 - How to Plan a Garden That Fits Your Life in 2026
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452 - 10 Biggest Garden Lessons in 2025
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451- Growing Cut Flowers & More for a Farmer's Market with Sarah Shuman
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450 - December Garden Checklist (without the pressure)
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449 - My Favorite Garden Products (and How to Save on Them Now)
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
448- 7 Thanksgiving Foods You Can Grow in Your Own Garden: the history, health,...
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
447 - November Garden Checklist: Protecting Cold-Sensitive Crops, Planting Onion...
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446 - Overwintering herbs indoors and out
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445 - What I Learned... about my capacity in this season of life
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444 - What I Learned... from planning 10 fall gardens
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443 - What I learned... from the failures of this season
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
442 - What I learned... Visiting GreenStalk: The Story You Don't See Online
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441 - Garlic Growing Timeline: Month-by-Month from Planting to Harvest
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440 - Let go or push through? (an unplanned, personal conversation)
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
439 - Stop Blaming the Weather: Clues Your Plants Are Giving You
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy