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)
438 - Fast Fall Crops You Can Still Plant in September
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
437 - September Garden Task List
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
436 - Cover Crops for Small Gardens: Learn When, What, and How to Plant for Heal...
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
435 - The Hidden Link Between Gardening and Parkinson's Disease with Dr. Ray Dor...
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
434 - Too Much to Eat, Not Enough to Can? Small-Batch Ideas for Summer's Harvest
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433 - August Garden Tasks + What to Plant
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432 - Why Fall Gardens Fail
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431 - A Gardener's Guide to Snakes with Johnny Sain
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430 - Shade Solutions for Summer Crops: What to Try When Temps Spike
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429 - Start these Fall Crops Inside in July
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428 - What to Plant in July: Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers That Thrive in the H...
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427 - Grow Mushrooms in Your Garden with Matt McInnis
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426 - Mid-Season Fertilizing: What Your Garden Needs Now
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425 - 5 Summer Pests and Organic Ways to Stop Them
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424 - June Garden Checklist: What to Do Now to Keep Things Thriving
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423 - Grow Organic Apple Trees: what to do in years 1-3 with Susan Poizner
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422 - The Truth About Soil, Wood, and Raised Beds with Gardener Scott
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421 - The Best Herbs for Beginners (and How to Start Right)
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
420 - Spring's Best Herbs for Food & Health with Bevin Cohen
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419 - How to Grow Meyer Lemons in Containers (Anywhere!)
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418 - What Market Farmers Know That Backyard Gardeners Don't (Yet!) with Pam Daw...
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417 - How Your Grandparents Knew When to Plant: Using Phenology (Like Lilacs & O...
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416 - Your last frost date has arrived! Now what?
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415 - Your April Garden Checklist: Tasks, Planting, and Common Pitfalls
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414 - Growing Blackberries: A Starter Guide with Chad Cargill
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
413 - Growing Blueberries: A Starter Guide
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412 - Carrots: what no one tells you about choosing the right variety
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411 - Grow Your Own Fruit with Chad Cargill
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410 - What to Plant in March
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409 - Tomato Types Explained: How to Pick the Perfect Tomato for Your Garden
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408 - How to use AI to Make Garden Planning More Efficient (8 Prompts You Can Us...
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407 - Companion Planting Myths & Realities
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406 - Cool vs Warm Season Crops: why some crops thrive at different times and wh...
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405 - Avoid These 5 Overlooked Gardening Mistakes
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404 - 7 February Garden Tasks: Prep for a Productive Spring
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
403 - Climate Change, AI, and Your Garden with forensic meteorologist Dr. Alicia...
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402 - Seeds to Start Indoors in January and February
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401 - How to Grow Chickpeas, Dry Beans, Edamame, and More (Grow Your Own Protein...
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400 - Grow Your Protein with Dr. Vickie Petz Kasper
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399 - Garden Reflections from 2024 (new varieties, lessons, lifestyle changes, a...
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398 - 2025 Garden Trends & Weather Forecasts with the Old Farmer's Almanac Edito...
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397 - Winter Composting
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396 - Growing Sweet Potatoes: A Beginner's Guide
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395 - Favorite Garden Tools for 2025
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394 - 3 Big Fall Garden Failures
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393 - 10 Garden Projects for Fall & Winter
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392 - Garden Clean-Up: Soil Rejuvenation, Pest & Disease Prevention, & Preparing...
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
391 - 7 Lessons from 4 Years with a Greenhouse
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390 - The Fall Garden Plants' Unique Needs vs Spring Garden
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
389 - Grow Large Garlic (by not skipping these 5 important steps)
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy