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Lisa Conrad's avatar

This was great. I loved your garden follow along a few years ago. I learned so much and relate to so much of what you wrote!!

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Halden Garden's avatar

Excited to see the new space and what you do with it. I’m also starting all over this year at a new house - good to get a reset and not make some of the same mistakes, as you said.

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Allie's avatar

Thanks for sharing this, Thomas! We are about to move as well and I find I resonate with a lot of your learnings and want to scale back a bit and be more realistic. So hard to not dream up a garden that in reality would take a staff to maintain! I really appreciate the compost conundrum and think we will switch to a local company who takes your waste then gives you back compost versus managing our own. Or perhaps explore a keyhole bed design to incorporate compost directly into raised beds, but have more exploring to do on that topic.

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Alessandra Mazzonetto's avatar

Thanks for sharing all of these insights! It's been fun to follow along on your garden journey and I'm excited to see how it evolves in your new home. I'll be referring back to this post when we start work on our yard / garden - thanks again!

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Laura Gier's avatar

Great lessons and advice! Curbing the spring fever is definitely a difficult one for me too, I am going to work on less is more. I also need to figure out which soaker hose to purchase and get our window box watering automated. 🌿

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Iga's avatar

I’m looking to get more into gardening — this is very helpful.

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Kiffin Jones's avatar

Thomas this is so amazing! I love your content so much! Also I miss nimble garden! Please keep sharing and please keep sharing grades articles!! You’re the best!

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Lindsey (Miller) Slater's avatar

Great article! I can relate to a lottt of these. Especially coming from the Central Valley also where everything basically thrives- east coast/southern climate is a whole different beast. It takes a lot of tweaking and learning!!!

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Hailey Strother's avatar

This is really helpful! I think the stands for the flower pots make so much sense.

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Hettie's avatar

This was so incredibly helpful Thomas, thanks for sharing you tips & tricks ahead of spring!

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rhythms of heart & home's avatar

Working on my spring garden now & this was full of wisdom! Would you mind sharing your favorite source for seeds - vegetable & flowers ? Thank you!!

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Julia & Thomas Berolzheimer's avatar

So many good seed suppliers. Love Eden, park, high mowing, rare seeds

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Amy DeCourten's avatar

This could not have come at a more perfect time! Setting up my first raised bed at the moment and I have no idea what I’m doing but loving all that I’m learning so far.

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Susan Brabant's avatar

Thank you Thomas. Such a great article and great reminders.

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Nicole Nassir's avatar

This was so well written and helpful. Really enjoyed reading this! I hope you keep sharing more about your gardening journey in your new house.

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Katie of Beach Reads & Bubbly's avatar

This was so helpful! I am a gardening novice and am so intimidated, thx for the tips! Excited to follow along in your new place!

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Bicoastal Stitches's avatar

I’m having the hardest problem with squirrels eating my lettuces in my garden. Do you have any advice?

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