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When you flip through the pages of Kitchen Garden Revival, there's something hidden; something you can't quite see on the surface but it's actually the secret to the success of every single plant I've ever grown. Know what it is? It's dirt. 

Actually, it's soil and that's why today on the Grow Your Self podcast we are diving into perhaps the most important topic I've ever discussed and the most crucial part of your kitchen garden. It’s the reason why today I'm going to talk dirty to you. Don't worry, we'll keep it clean.

Today, we dig into:

• Thinking of dirt as a sponge
• The different types of soil
• The ideal soil
• Change in the garden

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Welcome back to the Grow Your Self podcast! 

This is Chapter Three of the Kitchen Garden Revival Book Club and this week we are diving into ‘Worst First’. Today, we're going to talk about how we have to tear everything apart and make a mess before we can make it so much better. I have a special guest on today's episode that you are going to absolutely love, Monica Meyer.

Today we’re going to go down memory lane for installs that I did before Monica and I started working together, some of her installations, and talk about the good, the bad, the ugly and the memorable. 

Today we dive into:

• How Monica and I started working together
• The amazing connections gardens provide
• Garden experience horror stories
• Dream garden experience stories
• Everything in between

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Welcome back to the Grow Your Self podcast! 

For this week, as we dive into Chapter 2 of Kitchen Garden Revival, I thought it’d be so fun to talk about the reasoning for doing this whole thing in the first place. This is a little throwback to the very first episode of the podcast. I’m going to share with you three things that you can do right now, right where you are that could literally change the world.

In this episode, we dive into:

• Why grocery stores make it so hard to eat seasonally.
• Different ways to shop locally.
• Why having a “Green Thumb” is a myth.
• Starting small!
• 3 things you can do to change everything.

Take the Green Thumb quiz, here. For full show notes, head to www.gardenary.com/blog. 

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Welcome back to the Grow Your Self podcast! 

This is week two of the Kitchen Garden Revival Book Club. We're going to dive into the cash issue today and what it really takes to build a kitchen garden and how you can find the money you need to do it. 

I figure, I might as well lay it all out there.

In this episode, we will discuss:

• Real reviews I received for Kitchen Garden Revival
• A deep dive into Chapter 1
• The kitchen garden as a landscaping investment
• 4 things the garden provides for our daily lives
• 4 steps to find money for your own kitchen garden

For full show notes, head to www.gardenary.com/blog. 

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Welcome back to the Grow Your Self podcast! We have a brand new series that I'm so excited to share with you today. Today's episode is a bonus and we're going behind-the-scenes in the life of a real life garden coach. 

One of my biggest passions is helping gardeners all over the world set up their own garden coach businesses right where they are. We have over 180 members in the Garden Coach Society and we’re growing more every day. 

One of our newest members of the society, Ashley Irene of Heirloom Potager, agreed and to join me for a little series we're going to do together as she grows her own -- literally -- garden coach business in California.

In this episode we will discuss:

• How Ashley decided to start garden coaching.
• Tips for getting over consultation nerves.
• More about Ashley’s business Heirloom Potager.
• My FREE 5-Day Garden Coach Challenge.

For full show notes, head to www.gardenary.com/blog. 

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From 2012 to 2016, the number of Americans practicing yoga grew by 50%. In just four years! It's this fact that brings me to my point for today's episode, which is kitchen gardens need to become like yoga pants. 

In this episode we will discuss:

• How Lululemon made yoga pants the norm.
• How to get your brain out of its rut and start calling yourself a gardener.
• A deep dive into why I wrote what I wrote in Kitchen Garden Revival
• The 5 future-pacings I outlined in the preface 
• 3 reasons why you should start your kitchen garden today

Stay tuned for the first chapter for our book club! You can check out the Bloomberg article about Lululemon here.

For full show notes, head to www.gardenary.com/blog. 

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How much money have you spent on plants from the plant store? How many of those plants are still alive today? 

Today, we are going to dig into the topic of the problem with your plant store. We're going to talk about the gardening industry, what I discovered about the industry early on in my career, and what I'm trying to do to turn the industry upside down.

I know you're going to love this episode. It's full of surprising facts, and it's going to save you a lot of money and frustration and from adding #PlantKiller to your bio. 

In this episode we will discuss:

• Where money in the plant industry is going.
• Why success only happens with education.
• The younger generations new-found love for gardening.
• Why local farmers know best.
• 3 steps to reverse the curse and expand your garden knowledge.

For full show notes, head to www.gardenary.com/blog. 

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Welcome back to the Grow Your Self podcast. Today I'm talking about one of my favorite plants to grow in the garden, mostly because it never gets wasted. I really think there's nothing better than a cucumber straight from the vine in the garden. We're going to learn why it's so fun to grow your own and how to do so in today's episode.

But first, ‘cool as a cucumber’ where did that even come? Physicians in the 17th Century would prescribe a fever patient to go lay down on a bed of cucumbers. No really, I'm serious.

In this episode we will discuss:

• History of cucumbers and their tasty transformation to pickles.
• How cucumbers benefit our health in so many different ways.
• The 5 States where cucumbers are mainly grown.
• Tips on how to grow cucumbers in your own kitchen garden.
• Food fight between cucumbers and zucchini.

For full show notes on this episode, head to www.gardenary.com/blog

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This should bug you, that’s what we’re talking about today on the Grow Your Self Podcast. We’re digging into the bug stuff today!

Let’s talk about what’s going on with your food, with pests, why are pests even in our gardens in the first place. What does that indicate and mean to us? I’m going to tell you three things; three truths you can count on in regards to pests and your food. Then we are going to talk about five steps to keep your garden organic and as pest-free as possible.

Key words there “as possible.” Because pest-free is pretty much an impossibility, but we're going to talk about how to take a few steps, and use things we do with our clients, to keep our garden organic and as pest-free as possible.

In this episode we will discuss:

• Bugs in general all over the world, in nature eat healthy plants.
• There is more to your food than you originally thought. (Pesticides & byproducts of pesticides)
• Remove the visible damage and do some searching and remove every pest that you can find by hand.
• Remove additional plant stressors.
• Nourish the plant and then help the plant fight for itself.

For full show notes on this episode, head to www.gardenary.com/blog.

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Welcome back to the Grow Your Self podcast. I’m so excited to have my wonderful guest Jill McSheehy, she is here from the Beginner's Garden Podcast. Jill has been in the podcast world much longer than me, she lives in Arkansas and has been gardening since 2013. Jill fell in love with gardening and it became her passion.

Jill wanted to do something to help other people start growing their own gardens and be able to find information at a more basic level. That's why she started the Beginners Garden podcast to try to help people to find that basic beginner gardening information so that they could have the great experience of growing their own food.

In this episode we will discuss:

• How okra got started in the US and it’s history.
• Tips on how you can grow it yourself based on your seasonal climate.
• Food fight between okra and the other summer superstar, sweet potatoes

For full show notes on this episode, head to www.gardenary.com/blog.

Connect with me on Instagram @gardenaryco.

Connect with Jill:

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeywithjillinthegarden
• Instagram: @thebeginnersgarden
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPpSFSCOX6o0SUUSzuicrbQ
• The Beginner’s Garden Website: https://journeywithjill.net/gardening/
• Beginner’s Garden Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-beginners-garden-with-jill-mcsheehy/id1191490065

Other Mentions:

Sara Gasbarra, Verdura Gardens: http://www.saragasbarra.com/

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