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Season 4 - Episode 178 - The overnight changes 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 happened 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.
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  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 from the chicken coop.
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  So today we're talking about this garden and how all of a
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  sudden the heat comes on and everything changes nearly
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  overnight. And I agree with him, it's a
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  little, it's a little bit like sometimes you just want to yell
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  when it's all going on. And we have lost a boatload of
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  tomatoes just based on the fact that the heat came on so quickly
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  and that they just can't keep up with the level of, you know,
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  it's so humid, it's so hot. And at a certain point, the
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  conditions for certain tomatoes go right down the tubes.
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  And it's a well known fact. It's just we're not usually
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  having this type of heat this early on.
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  So we're usually able to work around it.
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  This year it was wet, wet, wet. And then it got very hot quick.
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  And before you knew it, here they were.
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  And this, you know, the heat is on, the tomatoes are shifting.
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  Things aren't working out quite the way you thought they would.
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  And you're just like, oh, you've got to be kidding me.
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  Seriously, This is what we're doing right now.
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  But yes, this is what we're doing right now.
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  So today the goal is to go out there, strip out some stuff and
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  really dig in and try to figure out what can be salvaged, what
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  we need to replant. Because I'm going to try to
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  replant. I'm doing something a little
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  different this year and I'm going to try to essentially
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  double and triple plant the garden because I want to see how
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  much I can get out of it now. This is a huge endeavor for more
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  than one reason, not just physically, but it's a huge
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  endeavour mentally because I have to keep planting what can
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  work, what can't work. I now know I can get onions to
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  start, so I could start the onions.
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  As soon as I come back from my trip that I'm taking with my son
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  in late July, I'm going to start planting the onions and
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  hopefully I'll be able to get a good set of onions ready and put
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  out there in time. But the point is changing my
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  approach and trying something completely different and trying
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  to triple plant the garden this year.
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  It takes a lot of thought, it takes a lot of planning, it
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  takes an intention to get it to do this.
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  And there's just more overall when doing something like this.
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  And someone recently asked me when I was explaining to them
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  what I was going to do, they're like, why would you put yourself
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  through all this? I started laughing.
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  And I was like, yeah, it's really a good question when you
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  say it like that. Like, why would I put myself
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  through it? I don't necessarily think of
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  myself as putting myself through it.
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  What I tend to think of is this is what I'm doing and this is
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  the reason I'm doing it, because I really love doing this stuff
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  and I don't mind doing it. I do mind doing it when it's
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  hotter than hell. So I have to change my hours,
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  the hours I work, when I'm up, when I'm doing it, that all
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  changes, that all effects. But for me right now, the most
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  important part is to track out what I need to do to get through
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  three seasons. We're supposed to plant almost
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  300 days a year, and I really want to try it.
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  And it may seem like an insane nutty approach, but if I've got
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  all this time, why am I wasting it?
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  And you know, we talked about not wasting time or I'll do it
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  later yesterday. And I really, I, I wanted to
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  share this part of it because this is a huge journey for me to
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  be able to do this. And I'm going to be documenting
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  it for sure because it's a very different approach physically,
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  mentally, emotionally, the work that has to go in all of it.
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  And one thing that I know for sure, one thing I know for sure
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  is the sense of accomplishment I get when these things are like
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  just on target. Now, again, lots of work, lots
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  of effort, and it's all OK. So layering, putting things in,
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  I've probably got about 50 plants.
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  Let me see, probably about 10 of them are squash.
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  The rest of them are flowers. I started lavender.
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  I really like, OK, it's late in the season, but I'm trying
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  because our season goes so long and I'm stretching and I'm
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  pushing. And the point is, don't be
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  afraid to try something different.
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  Try it, It's an experiment. Am I looking for mad outcomes?
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  Sure. But I also know I'm
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  experimenting, which gives me permission to be easy on myself
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  in the process of it. I'm learning, I'm, I'm
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  designing, I'm creating differently.
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  So work on that my friends, because it makes a massive
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  difference. OK, I hope you have a blessed
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  day and I will see you tomorrow. Bye.