SG572: Ten Little Changes to Your Gardening Practice That Will Make You Much More Productive
Productivity is a constant area of focus for me. I’m always trying to maximize my efforts in the garden - streamline my time and feel a sense of accomplishment after working outside. Every gardener is wired a little differently: some people want to get up and garden first thing in the morning while others wait to tackle their garden work late in the day - others are weekend warriors. Whenever we talk about pursuing a hobby - or a passion like gardening - it’s important to remember that we aren’t doing it for a paycheck. We aren’t even doing it purely for happiness sake - sometimes we can actually feel pretty miserable after being in the garden.
So what makes us continue to garden? And what makes certain that we don’t give up gardening? The answer is a universal truth for any hobby or activity - it’s being able to make consistent progress and feeling that our time in the garden is meaningful. The productivity tips I’m sharing with you today are designed to help you maximize your efforts and to squeeze every drop of productivity from your precious time in the garden. My hope is that by sharing these ten little changes to your gardening practice you will reevaluate your approach and experience greater personal productivity as a result.
Gardener Productivity - that's the topic of today’s show and it’s coming up after an update on the Listener Community for the show and this week's Garden News Roundup.
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Productivity tip #1: Do a garden walk-around
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Productivity tip #2: Calendarize your time in the garden
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Productivity tip #3: Leverage the power of time intervals (15 minutes each)
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Productivity tip #4: Don’t over do it
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Productivity tip #5: Team up to push forward: buddy up or outsource
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Productivity tip #6: Carve out a space for gardening tools and resources
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Productivity tip #7: Work where you can - even indoors or sheltered areas
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Productivity tip #8: Have spots to rest and create in every garden zone
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Productivity tip #9: Change your perspective to stimulate creativity and remove blocks
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Productivity tip #10: Recognize the ages of your gardens - then spend extra time working with the young and revitalizing the old
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Still Growing is one of the reliably informative gardening podcasts from North America. The format consists of an intro (personal gardening status chat, seasonal remarks), an extended interview with a guest, and an outro with funny outtakes, side remarks, and some chatter (poems, readings) from the host's children. The podcast is focused on reliable knowledge - the guests are typically experts like academics, master gardeners, gardening entrepreneurs or public garden leaders. The intro and especially the outro give it a homey feel. Given I live in the high northern region, just a little below the Polar Circle, I'm always looking for more cold-weather oriented gardening information. Jennifer Ebeling is in Minnesota, so that's helpful to me! Vegetable gardening (my main interest) gets a good share, but is not predominant. Most topics transcend your specific gardening interest and are applicable to many styles: landscaping principles, vermicomposting, greenhouses. The episodes are typically an hour long, which is just fine for me.
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