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June 14, 2018 I’m so excited to introduce this guest from the Organic Gardener Podcast Facebook Group a listener and a fan! Tell us a little about yourself. To start off I am the beginner gardener like all other gardens. This is really my first year gardening. About 3-4 years ago we bought a home in Idaho, we were living in CA The house sat on a farm plot, it was 2 1/2 acres just weeds, when we first moved in we rented it out and then we just moved in officially about 2 years ago. just one tree landscaping this last year took a gardening class trying to grow my own food. Are you a http://rockstarmillennial.com (rockstar millennial?) I figure 1980-1995. I just learned I am on the cusp, born in 1983. So you did some landscaping and took a gardening class, and I love that you came on today, because the lessons you have learned are going to be relevant and fresher in your head. And also landscaping is a question people have been asking me about a lot this summer, how to have an organic lawn. Tell me about your first gardening experience? I watched my boyfriend, we lived in California, I didn’t know, it was easy to grow things. we had a small apartment, and he had a whole bunch of pots and he grew tomatoes, that grew so tall and I was just like gardening was so easy so when we got to Idaho, I thought I’m going to grow a garden! This is my first intro to growing food Growing up dad always had me out there weeding always learn growing taking care of the garden. This is pretty much my first experience. How did you learn how to garden organically? My boyfriend is always in the organic I’m kind of book nerdish as soon as I decided ten books I just went through different audible books https://amzn.to/2uZcZIv () https://amzn.to/2uZcZIv (Lab Girl) not specifically gardening female scientist talks about plants in general and how they communicate listening to books about gardening and trees bought a lot of books learning the details from a class I took on  how to garden Judy Allen not specific on organic gardening but on the principals you learned kickstarted my garden this spring Tell us about something that grew well this year. I’ve got a 10 x 3 plot. I’ve got a lot of lettuce, carrots, beets The lettuce is up and it’s doing really well I never thought I would grow that much and have enough for salads every night. variety of arugula red fire lettuce I kind of cheated I got http://www.cosmicapple.com/ (Cosmic Apple) starters a little bit of cheating I tried to grow seeds inside this spirng and they didn’t go very well I ended up getting lettuce starters beets carrots onions horseradish cilantro peas – sugar snap garlic As a teacher, there’s no cheating! You’re not taking a test right? There’s no reason to worry about cheating! In Idaho, we had a really late winter, Mike’s had a really hard time germinating lettuce this winter, he’s finally getting everything in. (FYI we’re talking on June 14, 2018) To me you’re doing amazing because are you not a higher elevation then we are? We’re Teton valley microclimates base of the east side of the Tetons 5-6000 feet. It get’s cold but I’m told it gets less cold here, then some places that are closer to the river in the valley last week we had we had 2 frosts, we had to cover things and teh whole bit. Last week we were worried we would have a frost and we’ve been getting firewood all week, and I always say there’s like a couple of weeks in July where we don’t have to worry but we can get a frost anytime! Tell me about something that didn’t work so well this season? I got really jazzed up! I took this garden class in February, March There’s a topic we talked about growing seeds  in Idaho you have to do that inside with lights to some extent I read the packages  did all the... Support this podcast