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Season 5 - Episode 132 - The collapse of the garden · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happen to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. So yesterday I had a collapse in
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  the garden and it's due to the fact that this southern blight
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  that is here in our soil can take off.
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  And it's not everywhere in the South, but it is pretty much
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  everywhere in the South. And it, it can take off when
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  there's a combination of humidity and water and just the
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  right conditions. And then all of a sudden things
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  start to jet off. And that is exactly what
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  happened overnight. It was, it was astonishingly
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  quick. And so the tomatoes, you know,
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  my coveted tomatoes that I work so crazy on, they are basically
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  under attack right now. And I lost about 12 plants
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  yesterday. Now, This is why, you know, in
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  the beginning I said I'm going to plant so many because I need
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  to make sure I'm prepared for when and if this happens.
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  Well, it happened and it there are some out there.
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  Now here's the crazy part about this.
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  Yesterday I was out there and I was hysterical.
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  When I tell you I was hysterical, that would be an
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  understatement. I was crying.
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  I was. And just so you know, if you
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  hear noise, it's because I'm getting stuff ready to take out
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  to the chickens and trying to get myself back on track.
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  Because yesterday, as of last night, I was a mess.
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  I was, I messaged my own coach. I was so upset because I had
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  thought I did. You know, of course, everything
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  the right way. And it doesn't matter how much
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  you do right. What matters is science.
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  And this is a combination of humidity and heat.
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  So I had to pull them out right away.
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  So 8:00 last night, I'm out in the garden and I'm pulling out
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  plants and I'm trying to, you know, figure out what am I going
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  to do? How am I going to do this?
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  And I, I just was overwhelmingly taken, you know, just a back and
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  over consumed by sadness because they were fine.
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  I literally saw them earlier in the day and they were fine.
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  And then all of a sudden they collapse and basically what this
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  it's soil borne it. What it does is it chokes off
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  how the plant gets water. So you have a completely fine
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  plant and then all of a sudden, right where the soil touches
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  the, the, the base of the stem, the collar is what it's called.
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  It chokes it. It's like putting on a shirt and
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  tightening the button and tightening the button and
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  tightening the button until the person can't breathe.
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  Well, that's what happens with water in these plants.
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  So of course, they collapse. And no matter how much water you
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  give them, it actually feeds the virus, not the plant.
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  So it becomes madding. Now there are ways where you can
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  go and you can cut the plant, take a cutting off of the plant
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  that still maybe not collapsed and help that to reroute in a in
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  water. Just take it out, put it in
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  water, it will reroute. And so today that's a part of
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  what my morning is going to be looking at the some of the ones
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  that I couldn't tell how bad they were.
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  I'm going to go out. I'm going to cut off some of the
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  stuff I had to pull. And there's nothing wrong with
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  the tomatoes. That's what's crazy.
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  There's nothing wrong with the tomatoes.
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  They just haven't become red or fully ripened.
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  They haven't become the right size.
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  So you pull them off and you can use them for things like, you
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  know, fried green tomatoes, or you can use them for other
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  things that you would want a green tomato for pickling.
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  So I've got a lot of green tomatoes and I can do things
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  with them, yes, but I still didn't get to where I wanted to
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  be with all of it. So is this better than last
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  year? Yes, it's much better than last
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  year because I have huge tomatoes that are out there
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  right now that even if I pulled those, they are exponentially
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  bigger. Do I still have healthy plants
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  out there? Yes.
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  Did I pull out the sick ones? Yes.
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  Did I move the ones that are in the bags that are healthy away
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  from where other things are? Yes.
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  And should that be in that soil? No.
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  And sometimes things happen and it finds a way in.
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  It could have been a dirty tool I could have not been using.
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  I should have really been diligent with disinfecting the
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  tool in between things because it can get on there.
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  And I I was making cuttings and I don't, I know for a fact I was
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  not sanitizing in between each cutting because I didn't have a
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  problem and I wasn't thinking about it.
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  So every time these things happen, there's something to
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  learn. And for me, this was a huge
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  learning 1. So I've probably got about about
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  half my crop. That's OK right now, but we'll
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  see. And I'm in the process of
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  learning. I've debriefed it.
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  I sat down, I bawled my eyes out.
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  I sat down, I kept going. I used my ChatGPT to work me
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  through the sickness, how to handle it, what to do.
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  And there's no cure, by the way, but there are things I can do
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  differently and better. And I will make a plan and I
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  will move forward. And the point of today is when
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  things happen, deal with them. Cry, be angry, be pissed off,
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  say potty words. I certainly did.
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  And then pick yourself up, make a plan and decide, OK, I'm going
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  to be sad for 24 hours and then I'm going to get busy.
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  And that's exactly what I did and that's exactly what today is
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  about because it's what you do after that first 24 hours, in my
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  opinion, that makes all the difference.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day.
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  I will be dirty, filthy and science ridden all day long
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  while I figure this out and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.