Learning To Have A Green Thumb with Emily Grohovsky | The Beet

Emily Grohovsky is a self-taught gardener who owns a thriving kitchen garden business called Cedar Hill Gardens in Madison, MS. She and her husband, Brad, build and install custom, raised-bed kitchen gardens, and then Emily teaches her clients how to grow food in them. Her motto is, "Green thumbs are not natural. They are learned." Her goal is to teach anyone that they, too, can grow fresh, organic food without becoming overwhelmed.
In this episode, Emily and Jacques explain kitchen gardens, explore the challenges of getting started with gardening, reveal how green thumbs aren't natural but must be developed, debate how to overcome challenges and "analysis paralysis" while tending your garden, and discuss who the "pests" actually are in the garden.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
02:34 - What is a Kitchen Garden?
06:13 - Most Common Garden Challenges
08:50 - The Trap of Analysis Paralysis
16:05 - Personalities Reveal Your Gardening Style
22:58 - How to Avoid Failure & Adapt
26:30 - Pests: How to Deal with Them... or Not
32:42 - Strategies For New Gardeners
36:49 - Emily's Gardening Origin Story
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[@undertheumbels]

This was such a good interview, Jacques was completely engaged and asked great questions. I love her sunflower surprises, she seems like a kind, fun person. More interviews like this please!

[@trayvixk4642]

I really loved her insight and analogies on gardening. Also, for warm climates, lizards are great for pest controls in addition to birds. I've seen them used commercially to avoid pesticides and once you create a habitat for them, it's great. It's cute watching them sleeping on rocks on sunny days and scurrying around the paths.

[@jacqibelle]

Love the carrot snowman story! 💜

[@jacqibelle]

Yes yes yes Love seeing ladybug larvae ever since I learned their life cycle!!!

[@GoingGreenMom]

Love the analogies. Still working on finding gardeners in the midwest that are similar.... seems like lots are lower zones higher zones or majorly different climate/environment. I'm zone 5a/6b(depends which zone map you look at, but I have been 5 for years), and in the great lakes region so we get lake effect snow and seasons but I also don't want to grow in rows and use chemicals.

[@bobobaggins95]

The if it moved kill its my garden journey was the same with me, after watching more videos i eased up my second year, lost a lot but noticed a bunch of new bugs like lacewings and their eggs and baby praying mantis around. This year I've left it again and planted way more flowers, veggies are going good except for the odd caterpillars on my peas leaves but snails are now the only pest I actively do anything to