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Ways to bring your motivated skills into focus

Motivated gardeners have loads of fun because you just get out there and do it – whatever it is.

You get out there and pick the bugs, build raised bed, put up the fence – do whatever needs to be done.

As a motivated gardner, you check the weather to see when you can starting working the soil.

One great way to use your motivation is to start looking at seed catalogs in winter and ordering your seed. You stay motivated by starting your seeds indoors in winter and early spring for spring and summer and again in early to mid-summer for your fall and winter garden. I confess to doing this because I have learned that growing food year round is a huge motivator for me. I will have my seeds ordered by mid-January. My seed starting timeline done about the same time, so I can start my first seedling for early spring transplanting, the end of January (I am in US zone 7a).

Motivation and anticipation! Keeping that motivation going, I am harvesting food every month of the year. I don’t grow all my fresh fruits and veggies, but I don’t tend to buy tomatoes in summer or greens for my salads, smoothies or for cooking in winter!

Some motivated gardeners are just getting started, and if that is you, I have a couple of courses that can help.

For more experienced motivated folks, the fastest way to get help with your specific garden is by booking a coaching session with Debby to jump start the next phase of your garden journey and get your specific garden questions answered and that is where I come in as a garden coach.

A Motivated Tomato Story

Several years ago, I decided to see how early I could get ripe tomatoes.I live in Virginia, in zone 7 so my frost free date is the first of May. Although I confess I still use the ‘old’ date of Mother’s Day.

So, among the varieties I chose to grow, I included some early maturating types. I started these indoors the last week of January, thee and a half months before I would normally plant them outdoors.

The plants grew well and fast in my indoor rack. I have a hot house on my deck, and we added a small heater to it.Come the beginning of March, I started hardening off the plants in the hothouse.

A couple weeks later, as soon as the ground had thawed enough, I deeply planted them in the ground in what are called “Walls O Water”.These act as individual greenhouses.Within a couple of weeks, the plants were growing out the top of the Walls O Water and I wondered if a late freeze might kill them – no! A couple of the tops got nipped from frost, but the plants overall were very happy, snug in their houses.

By the middle of April, I had to open the Walls O Water because the plants were getting so big they were being crushed.By May, I took them off completely.

In the warm late spring those plants grew faster and bigger than usual.Fruits were forming by the first of June and I ate the first ripe tomato on June 15th.I full month earlier than usual!

This is the reason tomatoes are correlated with you as a motivated gardener as most veggie gardeners I know are the most motivated to grow tomatoes.

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Hello Amazing Human! I'm Debby

Hi there~ My name is Debby Ward. I am an Organic Garden Coach, Speaker and instructor who empowers gardeners to grow organic food at home.

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