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Season 4 - Episode 275 - Planning for 2024 Gardens in REVERSE! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the Good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset, coach, creative
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  strategist, and also happened to be a farmer.
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  This is my Chicken coop and I come out here.
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  Every day to record a podcast to.
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  Teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some joy into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way, hey? Everybody good.
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  Morning from the. Chicken coop.
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  Well, this is good afternoon. I'm actually recording this on
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  Friday to put up for Saturday because tomorrow morning I think
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  it's going to be a weird morning because I'm going to be staying
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  up late working on seed choices and laying out some garden stuff
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  that I want to get done. So I decided to come out here
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  now and record it and I'm sitting here with Mr. Buford and
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  Miss Lucy and all the chickens while they are having a snack
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  and they're just like walking around and chilling out
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  neighbors, mowing the lawn and on the next farm.
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  So you can maybe hear that off in the distance.
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  And you know, the fun part for me about setting out what do I
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  want to plant for next year is very much like goal setting.
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  I want to know what am I going to do with all of these things
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  now? I used to just buy seeds because
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  I wanted to grow anything and I really didn't care what I was
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  growing. But I'm becoming very pragmatic
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  with what's the outcome of what I'm growing and am I going to be
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  willing to actually work with it?
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  So we're going to back up. I planted some things this year
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  and while they did OK, these garden huckleberries, let's face
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  it, that's what I'm talking about.
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  The garden huckleberries. They scared the hell out of me.
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  If you didn't let them ripen, you could get sick from them.
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  So then I panicked because my certainty girl got in the way
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  and I was like, OK, well, what is ripe?
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  They said when they're not glossy, they're safe to eat.
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  And I'm thinking to myself, oh God, I, I, I can't just make
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  this decision. How do you know they still
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  looked glossy? I mean, granted, they were less
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  glossy, but they were glossy. So I kept waiting and waiting.
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  And then it got so hot. And then I was like, OK.
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  And then they weren't easy to pull.
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  So in the, in the world of plants, like if you're going to
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  harvest something, usually when it's easy to pull in a Berry
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  world, it means it's ready. If it's hard to pull, it's not
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  ready. So I kept letting it sit there,
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  and then they rotted and even the chickens won't eat them.
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  So when the chickens won't eat something, to me that's a sign
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  like, don't plant that again. So here I am sitting here going,
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  OK, this year in my very pragmatic state, I'm going to
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  work on saying, what's the outcome with all of this?
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  Like, what do I want to create with all of this?
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  And I've always had this dream of having herbs drying from the
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  ceiling. So then I could, you know, put
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  them in jars and do all this great stuff with them and make
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  it again, something very pretty, but I've never done it.
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  And so I was like, oh, I really want to work on an herb garden.
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  That's an outcome I've said before, but it was more just for
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  oh, we need to have a few things.
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  But now I'm like, OK, I want a full blown like badass old
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  fashioned English herb garden and I'm going to throw
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  everything at it to do it. I'm also expanding the flowers
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  because this year I felt like I had so many pollinators.
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  I really didn't want to cut anything.
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  And again, even though it was in the fence that it was supposed
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  to be the designated spot for it to go, I still didn't want to
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  cut anything because I didn't want to rob anybody of its of
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  the opportunity of pollinating. So I was like, all right, I'm
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  not going to cut it, which means I have to have bigger flower
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  gardens. Then I'm like, OK, well, now I
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  really want to have this walkway from the house into my recording
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  studio. And it's always like dark and
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  I'm always tripping and it's, it's not good.
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  So I'm going to OK, let me figure out how to do this, light
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  it up. Let me figure out these little
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  things. So I'm working backwards from
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  taking the problems and saying, OK, this is what I want from to
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  fix the problem or this is what I want as an outcome.
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  And then I'm thinking about that and planning it.
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  Every single vegetable will have a plan.
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  Every single vegetable will be checked.
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  And I'm so excited about that detail work because I'm a
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  complete nerd and a certainty driven freak.
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  And this is one of the things that excites me.
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  So as I sit here tonight, families headed out to go and go
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  to some scary haunted house, which I would never entertain in
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  a million years. Done them before it.
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  Absolutely hate them on every level.
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  I will be doing this and I will be over the moon enjoying it.
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  And I will know that this was not haphazard.
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  I didn't just get a bunch of catalogs.
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  Which is what will happen in the next month.
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  I will be inundated in my mailbox with catalogs and as
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  soon as they get in there and then the mail, the emails start
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  showing up with all the seeds that are available.
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  I lose my mind. So I just have to have them all.
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  I have no sensibility. It's like sending me into an
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  animal shelter and before you know what, I'm coming home with
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  something I didn't even intend to have chickens.
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  This happens every time I go to Tractor Supply, end up with more
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  chickens. So I'm trying to be very, very
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  thoughtful. I've put my certainty girl in
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  charge. I'm giving her all the the reins
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  to check everything and double check it and triple check it and
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  it feels great. So the next couple days really
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  start thinking about doing the same thing with what you may
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  want to incorporate and see how it plays out for you because I
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  know I'm going to be working on mine tonight.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.