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RESOURCES:

Transplanted Vegetable Crops | Plant Quantity & Average Yield Chart + Feet of Row per Acre | Johnny's Selected Seeds (johnnyseeds.com)

Direct-Seeded Vegetable Crops | Seed Quantity & Average Yield Chart | Johnny's Selected Seeds (johnnyseeds.com)

Vegetable Crop Yields, Plants per Person, and Crop Spacing (harvesttotable.com)

Explore Cornell - Home Gardening - Vegetable Growing Guides

Vegetable Planting Calendar | MU Extension (missouri.edu)

How Much Should I Plant? Vegetable Yields Per Plant – Bonnie Plants

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Focal Point Friday: Plan Like A Pro Jan 20, 2023

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Welcome back, my gardening friends, to another Focal Point Friday episode. On this week’s quickie episode, I am introducing you to my brand-new garden planning course, Plan Like A Pro. I have been working around the clock for almost two months now on videos and downloads and building an online community and I want to give you all the details before we launch next week.

It's the time of year when we should be planning our gardens and I want you to have the best garden year yet! Listen as I walk you through everything that is included in this course and how to get on the waitlist for the early bird bonuses.

Let’s get down and dirty!

Get On the waitlist: Plan Like A Pro

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Ep. 131 - The Basics of Winter Sowing: Seed Starting Outdoors Jan 17, 2023

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If you like to start your own seeds for your garden but often struggle with the amount of space it takes up, you’re definitely not alone. Or maybe you’ve wanted to start your own plants but are put off by all the indoor growing requirements? Having the space, the lighting, fans for strengthening the seedlings, keeping a watering schedule, getting them hardened off … starting transplants from seed indoors can feel intimidating or overwhelming. Even for me, someone who has an entire room dedicated to seedlings, with shelves and lights and fans and water systems, I run out of room every single year and need to adhere to a strict schedule to get plants rotated out to the greenhouse to make way for more plants in the basement.

Which is why the concept of winter sowing intrigues me. I always wondered why we couldn’t just plant the seeds we wanted to grow out in the garden in the winter and let them naturally come up on their own? Apparently, about 30 years ago someone else had that same question and she came up with a modified way to approach it with great success. Her name is Trudi Davidoff. Trudi refined the winter sowing process, worked with the USDA to coin the terminology and the method and then created a non-profit and spent more than 20 years teaching the Wintersowing Method to anyone and everyone who wanted to learn. I joined the Winter Sowers group on Facebook and watched YouTube videos and read posts from Trudi herself and I am ready to start winter sowing as a way to germinate some of my own seedlings this year.

This episode, we’re going to go over the technique of winter sowing, the do’s and don’ts, the basic list of supplies you’ll need and how to get started. It’s meant to be inexpensive and easy. There is really nothing technical about this and I think we can all do this with both vegetables and flowers for our gardens. Let’s dig in!

RESOURCES:

Winter Sowers | Facebook

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Focal Point Friday: Top Three Reasons to Grow Your Own Food Jan 13, 2023

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Welcome to this Focal Point Friday episode featuring the top three reasons why you should be growing your own food in your own garden, even if that "garden" is a pot on a windowsill in your kitchen.

Think of these episodes as a way to tickle your brain with one or two ideas to ponder while you’re planning or planting or digging in the garden this weekend.

Without further ado, let’s get down and dirty. Enjoy!

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Ep. 130 - Companion Planting and Intercropping: Gaining space in the garden, repelling insects, and other benefits Jan 10, 2023

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As we start to plan our gardens for this year, we may realize that we don’t have enough room for everything we want to grow. This is where intercropping and succession planting come in. We’re planting different plants with each other to make the most of our space or we’re planting them one after each other, sometimes with some overlap. And lots of times you will hear these terms used interchangeably or in conjunction with each other. But is intercropping and companion planting the same thing, or do they serve different purposes? To my way of thinking they are two sides to the same coin, each serving their own purpose but in very much the same manner.

In today’s episode we’ll dig into the principles of both intercropping and companion planting, explore the differences and similarities between both, and talk about how we can use both methods to our benefit in our gardens. Let’s dig in!

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Companion Planting Chart | Just Grow Something with Karin Velez (justgrowsomethingpodcast.com)

Plan Like A Pro | Just Grow Something with Karin Velez (justgrowsomethingpodcast.com)

Resources for this episode:

Tomato N Uptake (ucdavis.edu)

CDFA - FREP - CA Fertilization Guidelines - Lettuce Nitrogen Uptake and Partitioning

Nitrogen fixation in peas (Pisum sativum) (lincoln.ac.nz)

Agronomy | Free Full-Text | Synergistic Effects of Agronet Covers and Companion Cropping on Reducing Whitefly Infestation and Improving Yield of Open Field-Grown Tomatoes (mdpi.com)

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Focal Point Friday: Easiest Crops for Beginning Gardeners Jan 06, 2023

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Welcome to the first Focal Point Friday episode of season three.

Think of these episodes as a way to tickle your brain with one or two ideas to ponder while you’re planning or planting or digging in the garden this weekend. This week, it's all about the easiest crops to grow for beginners.

Without further ado, let’s get down and dirty. Enjoy!

Related Episode: Ep. 2 - Garden Talk Tuesday: The Basics

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Ep. 129 - Determining New Garden Bed Dimensions Jan 03, 2023

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Welcome to season THREE of the Just Grow Something podcast! We’re going to kick off this season with an in-depth look at how to figure out what size garden bed is ideal for you and your gardening space. I have run the gambit of different sizing on beds, both in-ground and raised planters and I’ve finally landed on my preferred sizing and spacing for both. And, guess what? It’s different for both situations! I prefer my in-ground beds to be one size and configuration and I prefer my raised planters to be another in most cases, but there are instances where I change that up, too.

So how you do you know what size beds you should be creating? It took me a lot of years to finally land on what my preferences are and what works best for me and if I had asked myself the right questions when I was first starting out, I probably would have landed on those answers a whole lot sooner. Today we’ll talk about the different things you should consider for raised planters and the ones to think about for in-ground beds. And it’s not always the same for both. Let’s dig in!

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Ep. 128 -The Barnyard Language Podcast with Caite and Arlene Dec 27, 2022

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Throughout the month of December, we’ve been doing little something different around here where I’ve been treating you to episodes of other podcasts where I was invited to be a guest. This week is the final week of having some honest conversations about different topics related to farming and gardening with other podcasters within the Positively Farming Media podcast group on their shows.

And you can’t get any more honest than the Barnyard Language podcast. This one will be a little different than the Drink and Farm episode from last week. If you missed that one, I highly encourage you to go back and take a listen. Caite and Arlene from Barnyard Language focus on issues revolving raising kids on a farm and the struggles that can go with that and they invited me on to talk about gardening with kids. I will warn you their episodes are marked explicit and this one is no exception because if you’ve ever worked in a barnyard, you know the expletives sometimes fly. And with all three of us being on rural internet, some of the audio staggers a little but it’s well worth it to listen to this conversation because there are some really good insights in there. I will link to the Barnyard Language podcast in the show notes so you can find more of Caite and Arlene when you’re through here. Let’s dig in!

Barnyard Language: https://barnyard-language.captivate.fm/episodes

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Ep. 127 - We Drink and We Farm Things with Bev Ross Dec 20, 2022

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Last week you heard my interview with Ashely Constance of the A Little Self Reliant podcast all about compost. This week, we change it up a little bit. We’re going to hear an episode of the We Drink and We Farm Things podcast, affectionately known as Drink and Farm. This podcast is hosted by Bev Ross and Sam Bolton. Sam is on hiatus and Bev invited me and a few others onto the show to talk about some farming firsts. You’ll recognize Ashley Constance in this episode along with our friend Erica Leniczek from the Rural Mindset podcast. These are some great stories and I think you’re going to really enjoy this episode. Of course, I will link to the Drink and Farm podcast in the show notes so you can find more of Bev and Sam when you’re through here. Let’s dig in!

Podcast — We Drink & We Farm Things (wedrinkandwefarmthings.com)

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