(https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/podcast-2/pioneering-today-podcast/)

https://ngb.org/2020/03/23/victory-garden-2-0/ (https://ngb.org/2020/03/23/victory-garden-2-0/)

National Garden Bureau (https://ngb.org/) It’s hard to keep up. Our role isn’t answers its information and inspiration so that’s what we’re trying to do!

Well, all sorts of people have been asking me about victory gardens so I am so excited I saw your email and here you are already! It's Friday, March 27, 2020 and we are right in the middle of the Great CoronaVirus Pandemic and here is: 

Diane Blazek from the (https://ngb.org/)

I am very happy to be here, thank you for asking, it's kind of a funny story and don’t we need funny stories at this time? I have been with the organization for 10 years and the organization celebrating our 100th anniversary. 

So as a group, as we were planning for the anniversary we had no idea that this pandemic was going to happen. Last week when we could still go to the office, we were sitting around the office, when we could still go and I looked up on my shelf and I looked up and saw the manual and thought why not roll out what was produced and published

our founder wrote the manual and was part of the whole 

the timing would be right

mr. james burdett

in the 1920s and 30s and 40s by pulling all this information together.

It is a great time in our history. I have been talking to seed suppliers and today a facebook group was looking for someone to go the 65 miles to the local cow dairy for manure. I'm an elementary school teacher and I'm hoping my parents are going to grow some gardens with their students.

Today we just published another blog post, we're working with kidsgardening.org (http://kidsgardening.org) , with 10 ideas to get kids involved. 

I spent like 4 hours yesterday just trying to create a 20 minute math lesson video.

you can get your kids involved in a victory garden. It can be fun for kids to research

1943 or today

2 things to start withyou must know your growing zone (https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/)

last frost date

but there are tools online which they dd not have back in 1943 you can enter your zip code into the USDA (https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/) and get your zone. There are multiple sites too.

you can enter and using your zone

without knowing those things

what it is to plant

Those are our two tips.

know your zone

know your last frost date.

(https://mailchi.mp/5611bc3d7dfd/free-garden-course)

You know, last year my husband and I built a (https://amzn.to/2QMXFd5)

the next step is very important for what you grow in your garden. I'm very bad at this part, I'm more of an impulsive buyer.

Do your planning.Make a list of what your family will eat

Think about how much will they consume.

Are you doing this in a community garden? Will you share with other family members or neighbors?

Think about when it will be ready to eat? How much of it will you be able to eat. If there is more then you can reasonably eat what are you going to do with it? Can you can it or freeze or otherwise preserve the extra produce you will have. I can see a produce sharing app etc popping up this year. 

That will carry on to thinking about specific varieties of what you want to grow.

If you are a beginning gardener and you want to grow a tomato that's fine just grow any tomato but as you get more experienced

difference in varieties

amount of space when they grow

some are more unique

color variety

different tasting produce

exactly what you want to put in your garden.

This is so timely, I was just talking with my mom, and her experience with vegetables. My mom has been a gardener forever, and I can't remember a weekend or summer day with her without her pruners in her hand. And she said she