Garden in 5 Live Event

That's a dream. That's a dream. That's a dream. That's a dream. Sa. Sam. Sa. Sam. Dream. Sadies and gentlemen, good morning and welcome to Garden in Five. Please join me in welcoming your emcee for the day, Sydney Hawes. Hi, everyone. Oh, my gosh, it's so good to see all your beautiful faces around me. Wow. Welcome to the Garden in Five live event. I'm Sydney. I'm the head of content at Gardenary and I am so excited to have you all here today. Now, I don't know if you've all noticed, but there is a garden movement happening all around us. Right? It is truly a time that we all reconnect with nature and know where our food is coming from. Right? This event is all about that movement. And really, this event is all about you. Whether you're a seasoned gardener or just getting started, this event is all about making gardening a part of your everyday life and making it simple, simple, fun, and accessible for everyone. Now let's talk a little bit about how to make the most of this event today. Okay, first of all, turn those cameras on. I see lots of you with your cameras on, but if you have your camera off, turn it on. I have a front row seat to each of you and you to me. Take a look. I can see you all. Let's put them up on the back wall. See? Isn't this cool? Hi. Hello there. Oh, this is so fun. Okay, now that I can see you, help me to get to know you a little bit. Can you find the chat and drop in the chat where you're tuning in from? Can we see it? And I'm going to be able to see. So hello from Tennessee. I see from the central coast of California. Hello. Maine. Milwaukee, Ohio, Connecticut. Okay, we've got a lot of east coasters. Is everybody pretty chilly today? Are we all feeling a little cold? Okay, well, hopefully this event will warm you up a little bit. All right. Okay. I'm seeing Maryland. Oregon. Oregon. We've got a few from Oregon. Houston, Texas. Hello. Oh, this is so fun. Okay, so speaking of this chat, throughout the whole day today, we want you to use this chat to share aha moments. If Nicole says something or one of our guest speakers says something and you're like, ah, that just clicked everything into gear for me. Please share it in the chat. We want to hear from you, but please be respectful, of course, of our amazing community. Let's keep it fun, light, and nice. Okay? All right, so before I bring Nicole out, I have a few more Things to cover to help you make the most of this event. So the first thing is stay present, not just here casually listening. We want you to be here present. This event is built on the idea of the accumulation effect. So each session is going to build on the one before it and so on and so forth. So to miss a little is to miss a lot. So put that phone on, do not disturb, have some snacks and water nearby, and truly lean in. Okay, now let's talk about the dashboard. The dashboard is going to be your one stop shop. This is what it looks like here. So on your desktop, I want you to go and find this. This is going to be your one stop shop to where you'll enter the event, access updates, downloads, take surveys, and win prizes. And one really important thing on this dashboard is the downloadable workbook. So if you can just scroll down a little bit. There we go. Event downloads. This event workbook. Everybody download this. Now, Nicole's going to be taking us through lots of exercises and you want to be able to fill things out in real time. Okay, now I want to know, where are my VIPs? Can you physically raise your hand? VIPs, let me see you. Hi. Oh, this is so exciting. We cannot wait to have you guys stay for an extra hour to talk to Nicole for a Q and A. And if that sounds interesting to you guys that haven't upgraded as a vip, right on the dashboard there's going to be a button where you can do that for just $27. It's super easy. And then you get to join us for a full hour after the event ends and ask Nicole any questions you might have. Okay, so for those of you joining us on YouTube, we are streaming this on YouTube, but I want you all to check the comments for the link to click over and join us here because there's a bunch of stuff that you won't have access to on YouTube. You'll be able to access the chat. The emojis have a front row seat to Nicole and me and our guest speakers and the ability to ask questions in the chat, win prizes. There's no cost, no cost at all. It's free. So just look in those comments and find that link and come join us over here. We're excited to see you. Okay. Also, we will be reposting on Instagram all day today. So take a picture, take a little story, tell us what you're thinking, what you're doing while you're watching, and you may just see that show up on Gardenary Company. So GardenaryCo is our Instagram tag us so that we can see it. We want to hear from you. Okay, can you all give me a thumbs up if. Oh, that reminds me, I forgot to talk about something very important. Can I get the dashboard back on the wall here? Okay. Do you see these? These are emojis that you get to use to tell us throughout the day how you're feeling. There's a, like a thumbs up, there's a heart and there's a plant. So can we practice really quick? Can you guys rain down hearts on me? Let's see. There we go. It's happening. Very good. Awesome. So you can use those throughout the day. We might do a call to action like that, like give me a plant if you bought the five minute gardener, stuff like that. So utilize those, it'll be really fun. Okay, one more thing. We have some great giveaways throughout the day starting in this first module with our new gardenary planner for 2025. We're going to give away a few of those to a few lucky winners and that'll be announced at the beginning of the next session. So stick around for that and stick around for the very end. For our grand prize, we're giving away a kitchen garden valued at about $10,000. Can you believe that? I mean, when I say that I'm like, that could absolutely change. I saw somebody in the blue sweater going, woo hoo, yes, girl, that's right. So stick around and we'll find out who that lucky winner is. Okay, Lastly, I want to remind you guys that just by being here today, you are a part of something so big, so huge, so much bigger than we could ever imagine. And I know some of you are brand new to the gardenary world, so I want to play you a quick video that we put together so that you can get familiar with Nicole's original vision and our mission at gardenary, which is simply to make the garden an ordinary part of everyday life for everybody. Cue the video. This is how so many of the foods that we eat were meant to be enjoyed. It's more flavorful, it's more crunchy and juicy. My dream is that every single person is growing a little bit of their own food. This should just be like a human, right? Your food basically travels zero miles. There's no plastic involved, there's no waste involved, there's no fuel involved. Actually, you know, let's do a zero mile right here. So we're prioritizing things that you cook with, which is great. The goal is for you to have something to cut every month. Anyone who wants to come over for dinner. I mean, Shay's cooking, so you got it covered. You don't have to be a homesteader. You don't have to have a farm. A little container with some lettuce, greens. That's something that all of us can do. We can make some magical things happen. We literally could change the climate for the better. I'm Nicole Burke, the founder of Gardenary Incorporated, where we're on a mission to help everybody so start a garden. We're talking not just one new gardener. We're talking the potential for millions of new gardeners. Did someone say kale yak? I think so. Okay, now, without further ado, I am so excited to introduce you to. Please help me give the warmest welcome ever to the author of the five Minute Gardener, Nicole, John C. Burke. I love you guys. Hello, everybody. How's it going? Happy Saturday. We told each other we weren't going to hug, but we love each other so much. We just wanted to hug. How are you guys? Everybody give me a big five. Give me a high five out there. Let me see you. We are going to have the most amazing day together. I am so, so thankful that you're here. I've been looking forward to this day since I wrote this book, like, a year ago. So we are going to have the biggest, best day. It's going to inspire you for 2025. Let's just make it. Let's just make a statement right now. You ready? You're going to put a five up. We're going to do a little pledge together. You ready? 2025. Say this with me. 2025 is going to be my best year ever. Yes. Because I'm gonna spend five minutes a day. Where. Where are we spending this? Can I see your. Can I see you? Where are we gonna spend it? In the garden. Every day. Five minutes a day. That's all we need. I know y' all got five minutes, right? All right, so let's say this all together, everybody. 2025 is going to be my best year ever because I am going to spend five minutes a day in the garden. That's what we're talking about today. We are going to have the best day together. I was thinking about first, we're going to talk about planning. Okay. We're going to talk about planting the garden. That's this first segment. You guys are going to be so far ahead of even the. The most pro of the pro gardeners. After our first segment. I hope you're ready. Like you're going to be showing off in your town. Everyone is going to be peeping over your fence to see what you're doing. They're like, what is up with Laura? How did she figure this out? What is up with you, Durka? She got this figured out. All right, then, in the second section, we're going to talk about planting. Anyone ready to dig in? Does anyone, like, got some snow outside today? And you're like, please melt quickly. I need to plant right? So in the second section, we're going to be planting. That's number two. The third section, we're going to be talking about mistakes. Has anyone ever made a mistake? And no, not me. I mean, I've never made a mistake. No. Literally, I'm going to tell you all the mistakes I've made taking care of my garden. We're going to avoid all the mistakes together. The fourth segment, when we're together, we are going to talk about eating. I don't know about y', all, but I feel hungry for something fresh from the garden right now. Anybody else feeling hungry? I hope you brought snacks for today. And we are going to wrap it all up and talk about how to bring all this together in just simple little daily practices, things that you can do in just a few minutes. Actually, five minutes. Does that sound crazy possible? It is. And we're gonna have the best day together. So I hope you have cleared your calendar, But I want you to know you can take me with you, okay? If you gotta go outside, let the dog out, you gotta go on a little walk, you gotta go to the kitchen, make some food, whatever you gotta do today. Just take me with you. Take us with you. We are gonna have some of the best guests here to inspire you and tell you how they fit the garden into their everyday life. And I don't want you to miss a single thing. So it means the world to me that you are here with me today, and we are going to have the best inspiring day. And I already love you so much for being here. So give yourself. Take that five and give yourself just a high five. A pat on your back. Say, I am awesome. Can everybody say that with me? I am awesome. You are awesome. Today is not about me. It is about you. It's about the changes, the difference you're gonna make this year, right outside your front door, your back door, in your backyard, your front yard, your side yard, in a pot on your kitchen counter. It's about the things that you're gonna do every single day in the little moments. And you don't know it yet, but those little things that you do, they're gonna add up. And it's not just gonna change you, it'll change you first, it'll change the way you spend your days, it'll change the way you feel on the inside. And. And then it's going to come out on the outside and people are going to be like, what is Marlene eating? Because this girl is looking amazing, right? And people are going to be asking you, and before you know it, you're going to be shopping differently, you're going to be talking differently, and your neighborhood will change, your community will change. Before you know it, you're going to look up and your city will be different because of the way you live your life in these little five minutes. And I know that sounds kind of ridiculous, right? Kind of far fetched. You're like, nicole, calm down, okay? But let me tell you, that is how my whole thing started. That's how this crazy, crazy revival began. Was just me spending a few minutes every day in my little backyard garden. So I'm going to read you the preface. Not too much, not too much from my book, just a couple of paragraphs because I have some very special guests that I cannot wait to introduce you to. And this is this, this kind of. It kind of, you know, it sets it up for you to know who's coming out here. All right, so this is the very first, the preface of my book. Who has my book yet? Five Minute Gardener, anybody? Oh, yes. Look at you, Dirka. She's holding her book up. I love it. You guys have made this a best sell seller all week long. Thank you so much. All right, so this is the way it starts. I didn't mean to laugh out loud anybody. Lol. No, my kids say you can't say LOL out loud. You just type that. So sorry about that. I didn't mean to laugh out loud. Mommy, when are you gonna build me a garden? It was my 4 year old talking while I was holding the baby and flipping and burning the grilled cheese. This is absolutely a true story. What was that? I yelled over my shoulder, fanning the smoke alarm. Also a true story. We use the smoke alarm quite often in the house. My garden, Mommy, when are you going to make it for me? She asked while I was in the middle of something. But for her, this was the something. She didn't care about the grilled cheese, the messy kitchen, or the errands we needed to run. She knew it was summer and she knew summers were for gardening. That's how my story began. Just one little girl begging her mom, who was burning the grilled cheese, to start a garden. Now, there are a million reasons to start a garden, but I want to introduce you to three of my favorite. So without further ado, please meet my three daughters. They're gonna. They came in. They're gonna visit us. Here they come. All right. This is a treat. I'm so glad y' all are here. All right, so my three girls are here. I do have a son as well, Brennan. He's home with his dad, Jason, my husband, and. But these girls all agreed to come with me, and I thought it'd be so fun for y' all to hear from them, because they are the reason, at least three of the reasons that I started gardening. So we have some photos to pull up to, to bring us back in time to where this all started. And if any of y' all ever been on a. A webinar with me, a workshop with me, and seen. Seen some of my original gardening photos. Anybody raise your hand, we're going to pull some of those photos up. So let's see if we can do that. And we're going to pull some of these photos up and show you some. Some of the ways that we began. So we'll start with you, and I want you to tell us your name and how old you are and if you have any memories from our days in the garden. So I AM Carolyn. I'm 17, almost 18. I'm the oldest. And. And as you just heard, I am kind of the reason for this whole thing that you're at now. No small thing. What can I say? But I would say my favorite memory is from our garden in Houston where we had so many lizards because of the garden. They loved our yard, and they would just run everywhere, and me and my dad would grab them and just. They were like our pets at the time, basically. Me and my brother would create these Lego houses and try to make them our pets like they were in a little glass cage. They obviously didn't love it very much, and they would run away, but my dad will also put them on his ears like earrings. And we did that, too. I'm sure all of us have done that at a certain point, but that's my favorite memory from our garden. Yeah, so Carolyn basically became the lizard keeper, she and her brother Brennan. Because we had so many lizards hiding in all of our plants, it was pretty fun. Everywhere. Everywhere. Lizards are actually really good for the garden. Do you guys know that? All right, let's Go to the next photo. This is Carolyn with her sunflowers. She was the reason. And then this is you and dad. Lots of memories there in the garden. Cuz she was the one who asked for the garden in the first place is all. She's the blame for all this. The first one I got. Yeah. And so let's go to one more. Now, Carolyn, here at this stage, did you think. Can you go to the next photo? Did you know at this point that we were going to be garden pros? What were you thinking? I don't know what I was thinking, but honestly, I was like, I mean, I got a garden, so that's all I need at this point. Yeah, I don't think she was envisioning this when she asked for the garden. I don't know about y'. All. Give me a thumbs up if you think we were on our way here with this garden. No, not quite. Yeah, we weren't quite there yet, but I don't think it was the garden of your dreams. But it got us going, which was good, right? Yes. All right, I think we got one more from that first garden and then we'll head on to. I think we've got the next girl. So now this is Carolyn. Carolyn's our oldest. And now here we have two other girls. What are they doing? All right, tell us your name and how old you are. I'm Rebecca and I'm 14. I'm Elaine and I'm 13. And we used to play in the garden together a lot. I think we loved. Our favorite game was definitely family. And every time we would. We loved to go to the garden. We would grab all the carrots and all the parsley we could. We'd wash them and we'd cut them up. And then we had this favorite beach bucket that was meant for sand, but we would fill it up, like all the way to the top with water. And then we put all the carrots and all the parsley on top. And we had this play set that we loved. And we would always go to the top tower. And it was like our imaginary table that we would use. So we'd go up there and that was our imaginary dinner. And we'd eat as like a family. It was really fun. I would feed it to her. They would feed each other. So you saw the photo of Becca dressed up as a giraffe and they'd play zoo. We would go to the zoo and feed the animals and they would come home and then become the animals. It was quite wholesome. This was the Day that Becca harvested all the carrots without my permission. But she came inside, said, guess what, mommy, I got all these carrots from the garden. I said, oh great, where'd you put them? Said, don't worry, I washed them all off in the bathroom sink. I was like, oh, wonderful. Amazing. Awesome. Well, we're going to show a couple more photos. I want to ask you, what is something weird that we do weird stuff at our house? We're all kind of. We kind of have agreed. We unfortunately I made them. We're the weird family. But what's something weird that you think you eat because of having a garden? Well, personally I would not say it is weird, but literally the other day at school, one of my friends was like, I have never seen someone eat raw celery before. But you eat it every day. So maybe other people think it's weird. I think it's great. But that's definitely a product of our garden. Yeah, raw celery, I don't think that's too weird, but maybe for a 17 year old. How about you guys? What was some. What's something? If you are going to set up your own garden or if I said next year I can only grow one thing in the garden, what would you want it to be? Cucumbers. Definitely cucumbers. So Becca has an obsession with cucumbers and vinegar and she will bring this in her lunch every single day. Sliced up cucumbers that she dips in vinegar. It's her favorite. It's really good. And flowers. And flowers. What about you, Elaine? I love dinosaur kale. That's my favorite. Dinosaur kale and dill. I would say every time Elaine's out in the garden, all the dill will be gone because she will definitely eat it all. Adding to your like weird food. Well, I don't know. Well, like no one does this because they don't have a garden. But I just love grab like running around and just grabbing all the food from it. And like I tasted so many raw carrots that they now sound like normal. So I like had them like, like they were in the garden so they're fresh and they taste different. So I had them at lunch and everyone tried them. They're like, these taste weird. I was like, no, they taste normal. But you know. Yeah, because they're different. It is different. Yeah. Getting used to eating different stuff is definitely part of gardening. Well, I love you guys and you are three of the reasons why I have a garden. And you know, my dream is that by the time you guys are Grown that everyone's gardening. So what do y' all think? Are they convincing you guys to go for it? All right, in a few minutes, in a little bit, they're gonna come back on, and we're gonna do some taste tests where they're gonna get to taste a couple of things that we make from the garden, and you guys can hear it from them whether it's worth it or. Or not. So thank you guys so much. Love you. Love you. All right, that was a special moment for me. Who here has someone they love that they would love to be a gardener? Someone that means a lot to you, A daughter, a mom, a grandmother, someone that you're connected with, that you want to connect with them through the garden, or maybe you already have. You know, most of us are really not that many generations. Most of us are not that many generations away from a gardener. Someone that, you know, made their life, centered their life around the garden. We're really not that far away from that. And that was. As I started gardening, it felt so impossible to me. You know, it felt so confusing. I didn't grow up with this practice, and so it felt like it was just not gonna ever work for me. And then I realized, you know, I'm only a generation away. It was my grandparents who gardened a lot, right? And it was their parents who literally kind of centered their life around the garden. So I love the fact that we're all not that far away generationally from a gardener. And here is the really amazing part, and this is my vision, you know, is that in 2030, when I first started Rooted Garden in 2015, Elaine, this girl that's all grown now, she was three, and I was at her preschool graduation, and they were all walking out onto the stage, and they said, introducing the class of 2030. That's what they said. They said, introducing the class of 2030. And my heart sunk. Have you ever had a moment like that for a child or someone that you love? It's just like, I heard the number, and it just brought me to tears. And I said to myself, by 2030, I want the whole world to be gardening. I want my kids to grow up and live in a world full of gardeners. In fact, my book Five Minute Gardener, is dedicated to my four kids. It says, for my children, Carolyn, Brennan, Rebecca and Elaine. I write with the hope that you will always live in a world full of gardeners. Well, I don't know if you knew this, but 2030 is getting close. Am I right? It's 2025. We are five years away from 2030. So I am going to need all y' all to join me. Okay? I'm going to need all you guys. Like, it's going to take all of us, because the clock is ticking to 2030, right? So let's do all we can together to get ready so that over the next five years, this little kitchen garden revival we've started, well, it's getting kind of big now. I mean, there's a lot of y' all here, but let's turn it into something gigantic. Sound good? Five years. We're on the countdown. Okay? So today, speaking of a countdown, we are going to count down for our whole year. We're going to plan out our garden right now. All right? So we're going to pull up the slides on planning out the garden, and we are going to do that together. So we're going to get that going. Everybody grab your workbook. If you don't have it yet, check out these cute little pictures of my girls. Can you hear me? All right, We. Yeah, we are giving away these planners. So just in case you don't have one yet, we're giving away five of these. And I have a little surprise to tell you about this planner in just a little bit. All right, let's bring up this slide for planning the garden, and we are going to get busy. Okay, Scan this code if you haven't yet to grab your workbook. You can also just write on a piece of paper if you don't have the workbook yet. Oh, I forgot that I can actually advance my slides. I was, like, waiting for you guys to advance my slides, and look, I have this in my hand. I mean, what. I just got so excited. Jim Gaffigan got to meet. I got to meet him. He got to meet me this summer, and he also got to read my book. Did y' all know Jim Gaffigan is a gardener? Anybody know that? So he got to read my book this summer and endorse it for me. And he said that the Five Minute Gardener provides simple, accessible, and inspiring garden advice. And he said any gardening nerd will enjoy it. Did you know that we're all nerds? Anybody here good with being a nerd? Oh, yeah. Gardeners at every level can benefit from Nicole's advice. So if Jim Gaffigan thinks that you should get this book, I think you should get this book, don't you? So if you don't have it yet, you can scan this code or go to Five Minute Gardener book dot com. You can also just head over to Amazon if you need to. We have a lot of really fun gifts we're going to give you today when you get the book so you can go ahead and order yours right now. Can y' all believe we have 30,000 people signed up for this event? 30,000 people and my publisher let me know. We have just about 10,000 books. So just in case everybody that's here with us today orders a book, you might want to get yours fast. All right, so let's talk about our best 365 days in the garden. You got to hear how my day started and I want to kick yours off too. So we're going to plan out the year. So first thing I want you to do is to pick your why this is so important, you guys, because you're going to get busy and you're going to get busy. Busy is honestly the enemy. Busy is the enemy of being a five minute gardener. So we got to have our why right there at the top. So my why is to be as healthy as possible so I can help as many as possible. So tell me in the chat, what is your why? What encourages you to be here today? Why are you here? Why do you want to garden? Why do you want to make the garden part of your life? Let me know in the chat. Emmy says, get that book. So helpful. So much information. Anybody got some? Some why's for me to share in the chat? I want to read those out as we go. Connection to nature and myself, says Barbara. I love that. Anybody else got a why? Share it in the chat as you go and I'll keep reading them out to continue my grandparents tradition, says Deborah. My why is to steward my earth home and my health for God. Kelly says to learn how to grow fresh food, eat fresh food, store fresh food, share fresh food, and make gifts. I love it. Kelly Marlene says I want to be healthier. I want everyone I love to be healthier and I love gardening. Karen says I want to help my community good banks along with being at peace with the earth. Laura says, be healthy as possible. Connect with God's creation and help heal my cancer. I love that. All right, once you've got your why, it is time to pick your three goals. This why is going to keep you going, but now you're going to pick six some goals. So these I like to have at least one of my goals, be around things I'm gonna eat. So my goals for this year are to eat greens every single day. I don't have to eat greens for every meal, but at least A little bit of green every single day to grow more plants from seed one, because they're cheaper. Anybody kind of want to save some money on plants? Yes, they're cheaper. And I want to plant more flowers and native plants this year. Those are my three goals. So tell me your goals. In the chat, I see to be healthy, doing something that brings me peace. Josette wants to nurture and nourish her mind, her body, and her soul. I love that. Anybody else got some goals to share? No matter what is happening in the world, being around plants makes you feel loved. They release happy hormones. Everyone should know this. I love that. Earlier last year, I got to go out to Shea McGee's garden. Anybody heard of Studio McGee? Shay McGee? Well, she just came up out of nowhere, you guys, and she's kind of famous. She has a Netflix show and stuff. And she ordered a garden consult like it was just nothing. So I got on the call with her and did a little consult, and I got to go out and garden with her for a whole day. It was amazing. And then I off, you know, of course, gave her my book. I said, can you read my book? She's like, sure. So this is what she said. The five Minute Gardener is the solution for anyone who dreams of cultivating a beautiful garden. She said, as a busy entrepreneur and a mom of three, time is not on my side, but she makes it work. So we came in, we added arch trellises, of course, lots of great soil. And then we started planting. Planting, she said. I implemented Nicole's advice in my own garden and watched it transform. With practical tips and easy to follow guidance. This book proves that you can nurture a thriving garden in just a few minutes a day. So if Shay can do it, let's all say it together. We can do it. So we planted the garden full of plants, and it was such a fun day. I mean, who doesn't want that backdrop? But behind their kitchen garden. Hello. Right? But it was so fun to. To do this with her. And now we're going to talk about how you can do it too. So the first thing you want to do is find your frost dates. You need to know your first frost date and your last frost date. You don't need to know the exact, like, literally the day. You just want to know the month. So here, when I look at the whole year, 2025, I'm going to think about when the first frost is happening and. And when the last frost is happening. This is my Nashville kitchen garden, and in Nashville, our last frost happens right Around April. And our first frost happens right around October or November. So I'm just going to mark those in my planner. Last frost date, first frost date. And that is so important for us to get going on this plan. So everybody got that marked last? Last frost date and first frost date. All right, so here's where we get to get into the details, which is amazing. I love this. Cynthia's goals are to make the garden her happy place. To be calm, relaxing, and soil soul rejuvenating. I love this. Deborah says, spending time in the garden with my family. Marlene says, make my world more beautiful. I love those goals. All right, so now we're going to talk about when we. Once we know those frost dates. This is when we need to think about our seasons. Now, at gardenary, we love to name seasons versus thinking about zones. So the first thing I want you to think about is the cool season. And this, believe it or not, begins three months before the first and last frost. Is that crazy? Three months. So who here has a frost date in April? Anybody have a last frost date in April? Can you believe that means we're, like, starting now to get ready for this? What? I love it. I love thinking about spring in January, don't you? It's amazing. All right, so now that we know our cool season, you can see how I mark that on January, and then I mark that on July, because I'm marking. Okay, cool season, you start thinking about it three months before it happens. So three months before the last frost date, that's the cool season. Three months before the first frost date, that's also the start of the cool season. And you'll see what I mean in a second. So the warm season, that's going to start one month before the last frost. All right, One month before the last frost. So who's my. Do I have any Texas here? Any Floridians here? Any New Mexicans here? Any Arizonians here? Anybody? Couple of you. Yeah, I see you. I see you down here. All right, so if you're in those warm places, you're actually at this time right now, right? Because your last frost, you may not even have a frost where you live. So you're going to be entering the warm season very soon. So here in Nashville, my last frost date is April. That means my warm season. I'm starting to think about that in March. Right. And if you're in a warmer place, you're starting to think about the warm season right now. It's crazy how this sneaks up on us. That's why, everybody put your hand up and just give yourself a pat on the back again. I mean, look at you, so far ahead of everybody else. Everybody else is waiting till April, you guys. And Ann, I see you. Melissa, I see you. You guys are ahead. Just tell yourself, I am just winning 2025 because I am so far ahead. All right, so the warm season, that's when we get into all those things that don't like frost. You know, tomatoes, peppers, all those plants that can't stand frost, they're going to be growing in the warm season. Now, not everyone has a hot season, but if you have temps that stay over 85 for over a month, and you are going to have at least one month in the hot season, Anybody here going to have a hot season in the. In the year coming up? I see you, Mia. She's like, oh, yeah, I'm prepping right now. I am getting ready. So that hot season may show up right in the middle of your summer. And every month that you have temperatures staying over 85, you need to mark that as a hot season month, because you know why? The plants that really work and thrive in the warm season, when it gets really hot, you're going to suddenly be like, what's wrong? What happened? Where'd my. Where'd my lush, amazing garden go? And it's not your fault. It's the heat, right? So we move into a new season there. All right, this is my dog, Toto. I have two, but this is Toto, and this is right in the middle of the hot season. And he was kind of done. You know, he's like, mom, can we go inside? I'm kind of. This is a dog day. I need to go inside right now. The cold season. Not everybody has a cold season, but you may if you are having a long time where the high doesn't go above freezing. Where are my cold people at? Anybody freezing today? Let me see you. I'm going to give you. I'm going to give you a very warm hug. Okay? I'm sending warm vibes to you. All of my hot people. Can y' all send the cold people some vibes? Just blow the air. Give it. Give the hot air to these guys. All right, I see it. How about we give some hearts to our cold season people? Can y' all get on your little dashboard and give some. We need hearts for them. Yes. We're sending you love if you're freezing cold today. All right, so if you're in the cold season, you're going to be there one to five Months before the last frost, if you are going to be in that season for a while. All right, so now we've got the year mapped out in Nashville. We really just have cool, warm, and maybe a little hot, maybe for like a month in July, and then maybe in the. Right at the end of the year, like November or December. So this is what my garden looks like Today, covered in 4 inches of snow, which is crazy. So we get a little snippet in January in the cold season, and then, boom, we're right back into the cool season. So here we're going to list out our monthly tasks. This is when it starts to make sense. All right? So if you're kind of going, whoa, what season am I in? What is happening? It's going to all come together as we list out our tasks. So the situation here that we have is we are looking at five months for a season. And let me explain to you how this works, right? So the first month of any season is when you're starting anything indoors. So you don't have to start indoors, but if you want to, this is when we start things indoors. So when I say the warm season begins on this month, what I mean is you're starting the indoor stuff, okay? You could be buying the seeds. You could be starting the seeds. You're just prepping yourself. You're doing the indoor stuff. All right, so everybody put a one up. Isn't it nice that there's five months? Because that really goes with our theme for today, right? So month one is indoor. Everybody following me. It's stuff going on inside. You're prepping, you're planning. Y' all could be doing this today. While you're listening, just getting your plants ready, you're getting set. Because we've only got five minutes, right? We only got five minutes a day, so we don't have to do a lot. So we're prepping everything indoors. Month two, that's when we're going, okay, this season has officially started outside. Now we're moving our plants to outside. We're going to put our seeds outside. Everything's going out in the garden. That's the planting month. Everybody with me, that's month number two. And this is going to be for every season. Month number three, this is when we start taking care of it. This is when we start tending. And we're going to talk about this later on today when we talk about the mistakes. This is when you're taking care, taking care, taking care of your garden. And. And you can, if you want to do it the gardenary way. Keep planting more seeds. Put a little bit more seeds in there every single day, just to keep it full, keep it growing. Then we get to months four and five, and this is when our focus moves to harvesting. We can continue to plant, but the main goal is going to be pulling from the garden, harvesting from the garden, and then getting ready for the next season. So this is what it looks like in the cool season, and then this is assigning it to months. So we've got January, February, March, April, May. That's how it works out for me for my cool season. But if you're in a colder place, maybe if you're in Chicago or New York or somewhere up in Canada, then your first month might be February, right? You might slide it over just slightly. And if you're in a warmer place, your first month might have been December. So you might need to kind of get going a little bit faster for the cool season. Now we have the garden planner. You guys have seen our brand new garden planner this year. It is my favorite new thing that we have. And we have a surprise for you. When you order the Five Minute Gardener book today, you get this whole planner digitally. So as we go through today, if you don't have the physical planner, we want to give you the digital planner. You can download it free, print it out, and write on it as we go through today's exercises. So if you get the book right now at 5minutegardenerbook.com, you can download this as soon as you get the book and then work on this as we go through the day today. So this is a really fun bonus. I am so excited to share with you as you go through Five Minute Gardener. And it's been awesome for me because I literally read my book and and then I write in my planner what I need to do, because the book is literally set up to go right alongside the planner. So you'll get that today when you get the book. All right, so then we've got warm season. It's going to be the same kind of idea. You've got month one to plan inside. Month two, you plant outside. And then all the months after that is taking care, planting a few more small things, and then tending and harvesting so you can see how the seasons kind of run into each other. Right? It's like the cool season begins inside, we move to the garden, then the warm season begins, we move to get warmer, and then you might have a hot season that's going to come after that. And this same cycle continues. So you might have moments, you can see even here, where like the marches overlap, right? I've got the cool plants out in my garden in March, and. And I've got my warm season plants warming up and getting ready indoors. That's why having a planner is so helpful, because we've only got five minutes. And that was really the whole heart of writing this book for you is, I think, so many times, you know, I've only got five minutes. What do I do? You know, like, I need to know exactly what to do right now because I've only got five minutes to do it. And so that's the beauty of having the book writing down your plan inside this digital planner that you get for free. And then just the minute that you've got a minute, you know exactly how to spend it. Now we have something called the second season. And the second season is when your temps start to go back down right? Now it's hard to think about that right now because we're in the coldest part if we're in Northern hemisphere, but essentially we've got our first cool. Then it gets warm, you know, or hot, and then it starts to come back down. And so I call this the second season in my new book, I call it the encore, right? It's where it's like the, you know, they leave the stage and they're gone, and then up they're back. We're here again, right? And so this second season is where you get a repeat of your first season and so you do this all over again. So a lot of people, and this isn't going to be you guys, because you're here today. A lot of people, they get in the middle of the summer and they're doing their tomatoes and peppers and everything, and they don't realize an encore is coming, right? A new second season is on its way. So we begin even in July, we start thinking about the cold stuff coming again. So the kale, the cabbage, the Swiss chard, the peas, they're all going to come back into the garden right after it gets a little bit cooler. So we start prepping for that. And so you can see how these months overlap. Now, you might be asking yourself, but Nicole, I'm cold right now. I ain't going outside, okay? There are 20 inches of snow outside my door. I'm not planting anything. Anybody thinking that a few of you, if you're cold today, well, I want you to see that you can also be doing loads of indoor harvests, not just in the winter, but really year Round. So my favorite thing to do is to grow microgreens and sprouts. And this is something all of us can do. Even if you have a very small space and you just get into the habit of growing sprouts and microgreens every single week. I outline this a lot in my book Five Minute Gardener. And I show you how I just make this part of my everyday routine. When I'm starting the dishwasher at night, I rinse my sprouts off, I turn off the light for my microgreens. When I unload the dishwasher in the morning, I rinse my sprouts and I turn the lights on for my microgreens. It doesn't even take five minutes. It takes five seconds. And all of us can have this nice addition to our dishes all the time. You guys, this is so such an easy add on that we can do right now. And it kind of warms you up. It gets you excited about having your own food. And has anyone raise your hand? If anyone's seen the science about sprouts and microgreens and how they affect our health, it is crazy good, you guys. Like, I have seen recent scientific studies that broccoli sprouts are anti cancerous. They, they help our hearts, they help our immunity, and they're more powerful than broccoli. They're saying now that if you eat broccoli sprouts, it's literally better for your body than eating a big head of broccoli. And I don't know about y', all, but I like me some broccoli, but I can only eat so much. But broccoli sprouts on a sandwich or an omelette or a salad, we can do that every day. So this is something we can all get in the practice of doing. All right, Michael Hyatt. I don't know if you've heard of Michael Hyatt. Anybody know him? He is a focus king. He has this journal that I use all the time, the full focus journal. And I really based our planner, the one you get for free when you order the book today. I based that after learning from Michael Hyatt's planner. But he got to read my book this summer. He's a gardener. And he said. Nicole Burke brilliantly applies productivity principles to gardening. Her practical approach makes growing food achievable for even the most, let's say this together time strapped individuals. Her Burke breaks gardening into small, manageable tasks that compound over time. This book will change how you think about food, time and connecting with nature. That is what we are all about. So we are at the final step of making a plan for the year, and that's to take a snap snapshot of the year. Now, if there's ever a time to take a snapshot, to take a screenshot, right now is a very good time. So you can take a little screenshot of this and you can see every single month, I have you starting indoors, microgreens and sprouts. Ganelle says, love growing sprouts and microgreens. They grow themselves. Exactly. It's so easy to do, you guys. It is a no brainer. So that's happening every day and mean every month of the year. And then I have you here showing you how you start your large plants on month one, you move them out into the garden in month two, and then you start the replanting and the tending and the harvesting, and these things start to compound on each other. So you look here at May, June, July, August. Feel free to take a screenshot if you want, but this is how I want you to start. Start to picture your year. In my book, Five Minute Gardener, I show you how you can divide the seasons into three months so that at any given time of the year, you know exactly what to be focused on when it comes to the garden. When you've got five minutes, you know how to spend it. All right, so we've started January. Now this is the last section of the year. September, October, November, and December. This is how we end the year. So we pull all these together and this is what makes the most beautiful year of your life. Little tasks, five minute tasks where you're just doing the next thing. You're doing the very next thing in the garden. Now, we are giving away this garden today. Anybody want to win it? Anyone excited? You know, my dream is to become the Oprah of gardening. I want to be the Oprah of gardening. One day I'm gonna just walk around and go, you get a garden, you get a garden, you get a garden, you get a garden. So today we're doing at least one, right? At least one garden. And I hope you win. I really do hope you win. And if you don't win, I'm gonna help you build your own. So don't you worry about that. If you don't have my new book yet, you can get it@5minutegardenerbook.com and I hear we have a special guest. Is that right? I think I heard heard the announcer. We got a, got a special guest coming on. Yes, we do. We do. Y' all, we have a guest. Are y' all ready to meet my next guest? There she is. Oh, my goodness. My friend. My gardener friend. Tell everybody who you are, lovely woman. Hi, Mom. I'm here with my Five Minute Gardener book. I'm a huge fan of Nicole Burke and the Gardener Way. The Five Minute Gardener way of life. And my name is Ellie Holcomb. I'm a singer, songwriter, and an author and a mama of three in Nashville, Tennessee. And I am floored to be here with y' all today. Oh, my gosh, Ellie, what a treat. I was telling Sydney earlier today, I was like, me and Ellie, we go way back. She just has no idea. So Ellie is a singer, songwriter, and back over a decade ago when we lived in Nashville, I went to one of your first concerts for Rain, for Roots, and I had never met you before. And y', all, this woman, her voice, you're gonna hear it in a minute. We have a little surprise for you to hear her sing a song. But she had her guitar, and she. What? I was just like, I could listen to this woman. I just am gonna carry her around with me and. And she's just gonna sing to me for the rest of my life. And so then, lo and behold, you guys, fast forward 10 years later, we're back in Nashville, and I get a message from you. I think it was through Instagram. Was it? Yeah. Slid into the DMs. Slid into the DMs. Ellie Holcomb, none other than. So what did you say in the DMs? Remind me I have a friend, J.J. heller, who's another artist friend. And I was talking to her about how I'm an aspiring gardener, and I'm like, I plan a lot and a lot dies, but some of it lives. And I'm looking. I would love. I'm really hoping to grow in this way. And she was like, say no more, because I've seen pictures of her garden with you on Instagram, Nicole. And so I literally was like, who is this lady that is helping you? Cause she looks amazing and I want to be her friend. And she was like, I'll give you her number right now. So I didn't even wait for her to send me your number, Nicole. I literally was like, oh, never mind. I'm doing this. That is so unlike you, Ellie. That is so unlike you. I can't believe you did that. So I get the DM from Ellie, and I couldn't answer it fast enough. I was like, tell me when. Tell me where I am there. And you Already had a garden built. Like, this was not your first. Tell us, like, how did you first even start getting into gardening? Yeah, so my. It's so funny. I actually, y', all, this book, go and get it right now. I already have it. And then I'm going to jump on and order it again to give it to friends. Oh, you're the best. I literally, I want the planner, but my kids. Your intro to this just had me in tears, Nicole. Like, my kids. Because it's a very similar story for me. My kids were like, let's plant some seeds, Mom. I want to plant some flower seeds. And so I have a very similar story to you. I just was like, okay, I think I would love that too. And so we started off in four little, you know, tiny. The house we moved in had these little raised beds, you know, four little four by fours. And we planted a few things. Very few things. I started off as, like, a spartan gardener with, like, two things. Love it. And so it is. A lot did not survive, but the magic of watching and, like, slowing your life down enough to, like, getting the pace of the earth with my kids and the magic of that just captured me. And a lot didn't survive, but some things thrived and grew. And so it started there. And it has been such a joy. I'll just say this. And this is like a. I can be a testimony for the five minute gardener way of life it took. I'd worked so much harder when I was growing so much less and in my life and I started planning the gardenary way and literally everything started taking care of itself. And so, yes, I mean, it is like, I'm just here to say, like, this is not marketing. This is real. I'm really living this every day of my life. And I'm excited for everybody who's here. I love it. So I got to come in. You. We, like, made a little plan, y'. All. Ellie was. She was taking charge. You know, she's like, nicole, here. All my seeds. She had all these seeds. And she was like, I definitely want flowers. I remember that you said, I want the flowers. And your beds were already built. You were in a new space. This is going to be. Was this going to be your first season in that garden? It's my first season in the garden. So, y', all, we got a puppy. And that was. That was a trying time for my raised garden beds. Dug up everything that she wanted to be the gardener. You wanted to be the gardener. Yeah. So totally worth it. Puppies. Totally worth it. Highly recommend. A dog. She loves being in our garden now, but we had to raise them a bit. So it was my first year in the raised gardening beds, and I had more space than normal, and so I felt a little bit overwhelmed. I was like, oh, no. I've only ever done this on a small scale. And so you came in with your team and just blew my mind. Yeah. So we got in there and let me loose. Right. Like, that's kind of dangerous. She said, just work your magic. We had some time together. She had to go record, I think, 25 songs. And she's like, I'm gonna go sing. Y' all do your thing. I'll be back. And so we just filled that garden. Her children came home from school. I have to show y'. All. Have to watch the video on Instagram. It's a ways back, but your boy was literally in the bed. I mean, we were gonna plant him sometime during that day. It was so fun. And. And she let me do anything I wanted to, which was amazing. I loved that you had that openness. So then when I came back a few months later and you were eating. Oh, my goodness. I was eating. My neighbors were eating. My friends were eating. Like it is, y'. All. It has been, like, one of my most favorite things. And when my kids. Friends come over, my little. The One Rivers who was in the. In the soil with us, literally in the soil, he especially loves it so much. And so anytime a friend comes over, he's like, mom, let's go to the garden. And so it has become this beautiful way of bringing in people in our community. All my friends and neighbors know they can come by and get herbs, they can get peppers, they can get kale. And they do. So we've built a garden that feeds our family and our neighbors and our friends and our friends can kids. And it is. It's a joy. It's so awesome. Yeah, I'll come over. And Ellie's like, oh, I don't. I don't know why all this kale. Oh, yeah. My neighbor was having a dinner, and she came over and took all the kale. She's like, but I don't. It'll be back tomorrow. So I'm good. Well, you are like, you're the epitome of a busy person. I know we don't like to use that four letter word, but you have a lot going on. Your husband is a singer songwriter. You're a singer songwriter. You've got three children and a dog. And so we're all wanting to know how Are you fitting this in? Like, tell us. Just, like, be real with us. How often do you actually get to go out to your garden? And when you go there, what do you do? Yeah, I love that question. Honestly, this. It has been the way that Nicole encourages you to plant is planning a lot, and the plants help take care of each other, which is a beautiful example of how we live better in community, which is awesome. But I will say, the way that she does it, I did set up a. This has kind of been a game changer. One of those. It's not fancy. I didn't have, like, an irrigation company come in, but it's just one of those timers on my hose, and we ran it all through the beds. And so because I tour, so I actually leave home, y', all, for, like, weeks and months at a time, and I bring my kids. And so having that little system there is great to help, like, keep. Especially in the summer months in Tennessee, to keep it, you know, like, just hydrated. Yeah. But really, I can. If, like, if I'm healthiest, if I'm home, I'm out there almost every day. Some days are busier. So I will say, honestly, I do not get in the garden five minutes every day, and I leave home, so I'm not in the garden on those days. But truly, I can spend about five minutes a day. And if I'm going out there, I am literally, I plant seeds very often, because you're always encouraging us to plant more and more. And then I would say I prune and I harvest, and that is the joy of my life. Like, it is so much fun to just like, take a basket. I keep it on my screen and porch in the back. I hop out there. I kind of go with my little clippers that I got from Nicole's website, go get supplies from her website, y'. All. She has amazing stuff. So just plug in there. And then I literally just prune things that aren't healthy. I love plants because they let go of what they don't need, which is a super wonderful life lesson, I think, for. Totally. So I prune, and then I harvest. Those are probably the two things that I do the most. And my. I love having flowers out there because I have. I just save every mason jar that I have, and I fill them all up, and I give them to neighbors and friends, and they're all over my home. And so those are probably the two things that I am the most likely to do, is the pruning and the harvesting. Always there's seasons of Planting, too. Yeah. They're also really exciting. And that teaches me and my kids this, like, anticipation and patience. And so we learn life lessons from the garden all the time. But truly, I can leave the garden and the way that you write coat you people to plant gardens, Nicole. I cannot tend it for weeks at a time, especially with that hydration system that I have just on a little timer on my, you know, house. I can leave for weeks at a time, and it's still thriving. Like, thriving, like, growing up over my head. Tomatoes, zinnias, peppers. There will be things that I forgot that I planted, that I'm like, oh, amazing. Spirit squash. Love that. Forgot about that. I love it as, like, a surprise. And so nature's really smart. It knows how to kind of take care of itself. And so it's been a really humbling, beautiful thing to garden in this way for me. I love it. Well, I. It's like a scavenger hunt, right? That's the whole point. It's like, what will Ellie find in the garden today? Pruning and harvesting, y'. All. That is the magic. Like, if you've got some food out there in the garden, that's going to get you out there. And I love. I've watched Ellie chow down on a pepper in the garden. I mean, it is good stuff. Nicole, I do have to tell you, I'm a musician, right? And usually I'm jumping from the garden right into the studio. And I kid you not, on my next full length record, I play the pepper. Like the crunch of a pepper grown. A bell pepper growing in your garden is unrivaled. And I literally. You were there. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. I'm taking this to the studio right now, and it is a featured track. We have a pepper track on my neck. Oh, I love it. I love it. Well, this is such a full circle moment for me because over 10 years ago, I was sitting at your feet watching you play the guitar, singing songs to my kids, and you have written a song about the garden, about the seed, and today we're going to get to hear it. So tell us just a little bit about this beautiful song you've written inspired by planting your gorgeous garden. Yeah, I love that so much. Well, it's full circle for me, too, because you and the garden itself, just. Nature has been such a sweet teacher for me and y'. All. You. I've been so inspired gardening. It's so grounding for me and for my children that I actually just wrote a kid's book that's pre Order right now, it comes out 2 11, I think, but it's called 7. So soon. Yeah, it's so soon. Oh, amazing. So much fun. So the. The book is Spring Sings, and it's literally inspired by a lot of the lessons that I've learned while gardening and while planting and waiting and hoping. But I. I think my most favorite thing. I loved what you said earlier, Nicole, that. That it's amazing as a gardener that in January you're thinking about spring. So in these sometimes dry, dark, cold, wintry months, you're thinking about life that is coming. And that's the story that spring tells, is the story that as a person of faith, it hearkens the story of the gospel that love beats death. And so all the time in the garden, I'm like, oh, it looks dead right now, but life is coming. So I love that spirit of gardening that you're always thinking about cultivating life. And so the lesson, this song that I'm going to play, so I have a whole record to go along with the kids book that'll be out as well. And this song that I'm getting ready to play for y' all is called Little Seed. And I think the thing that I love about gardening and that plants teach me all the time is that breaking and things like, you know, like, there's a time and a season for everything. And what seeds teach us is that breaking turns to blooming. And that's so often the case in our heart. I think in the hands of love, in the hands of God, he can use anything that's broken to actually grow new life and grow a new thing. And that's so often what happens in the garden. And that's what seeds show me. They break open for new life to come. And so this is a song that I wrote called Little Seed. And the songs and the books are for kids, but I always say they're for the adults and kids lives because we're all just kids, kids making our way back home anyway. And so this song that I'm going to play for y' all is Little Seed. And it's a song that I wrote to seeds thanking them for showing me the beauty of breaking open to give way to a new thing. So I love it. Let's listen to this song, Little Seed by Ellie Holcomb. Thank you for being with here with me today, Ellie. I love you. Love you. All right, let's listen to Little Seed. I cannot wait for y' all to hear this song. Going to love Ellie's voice and the guitar and the music. CS are growing Little se little se. I feel afraid Very deep very deep I think that you underneath underneath your breaking makes a way or if you like to grow up green and strong Today the kingdom heaven is like a sea it's like a sea they seem small to tree to a tree and the birds find their shell. No, we can just let her go because I need. It's. Oh, my word. Did you guys love that? Let me see the hearts. Ellie's voice, Is she, like, an angel? Y' all know I wanted to be a singer. Y' all know that I was singing. I was singing in my living room. I was singing in my bathroom, and my parents, my sister, they said, please go in your room. Get in your closet. That is not for public viewing, Right? So that's why I'm a gardener. I'll sing for my teenagers sometimes in the morning, and they're like, mom, stick to your profession, okay? Just talk to the plants. Do not try to be a professional singer. So. Oh, my gosh, Ellie is such a dream. Did y' all love it? Give me a high five. Give Ellie a high five. Ellie, thank you for spending your snowy Saturday with us. I love having you here. Y' all have to stay tuned on Instagram. I go and visit Ellie's garden quite often, and she gives us all the tea about what is happening with her plants. There's also some really fun planting that I'm going to show you later on today of when Ellie and I got into the garden. So stay tuned for that. But I just love having her here, and I want to do something fun with you guys. What if I help you guys plan out your year? So I thought it'd be really fun if I get a little volunteer. Not a little. A big volunteer to tell me. Come on with me and tell me some of your dates, and we're going to map out your year together. I see Nancy Bailey in room number one. Are you up for it? All right. Nancy Bailey in room number one. She's the first hand I saw. So she's going to come on and we're going to do some little garden planning together right before our break. So everybody give yourself a little stretch. We're gonna watch me and Nancy work together, and this is gonna give you a kind of a vision of how to do this. All right, Nancy, can you unmute? Or we can unmute you. Yep. Can you hear me? Nancy, you look amazing. How are you? Good, thanks. Excited to be here. Thank you for being here. Tell us where you're. Where Are you gardening? Where are you gonna be a five minute gardener? Connecticut. Connecticut. All right, we got a little. Little chill here from Connecticut, so I'm going to write that out. So do you know your first and last frost date? Yes. Let's see. First frost date is October. October. Okay. Last frost date is April. May. Oh, okay. So we're kind of close to each other. Are you like, beginning of May? Should we go for May or what do you think? I would say beginning of May. Yeah. Okay, perfect. All right, so we're going to look at the year here together, and we're just going to chart out what we want to do each month. So I'm going to see if I can fit. Can I fit 12 of these? 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. All right, so we're going to map out your year together. We're in January, so right now we're in April. This is when she gets to plant. So exciting, right? This is when cool season, like, officially is over. This is when the warm season starts. And then we've got May. I'm going to put little things here. May. Oh, wait, no, we said May is when we're going to do it. Oops. They showed me how I can erase. So let's do a little eraser. Oh, I gotta use the pen. I'm gonna learn this today, y'. All. This is fancy, fancy stuff here. Okay, we're actually gonna make. May is gonna be our magical moment. So we've got May, and then we've got June, July, August, September, October, November, and December. So her. Her la first frost date is gonna be right around October. Okay, so now we know, Nancy, that you're gonna have all these months from May all the way till October. This is when you're in, like, the quintessential gardening time, right? Yep, yep. So we're gonna have things like tomatoes, peppers. What's your favorite? Like, summer plants to enjoy. Well, the only thing that I've really been able to grow are cucumbers, Although they didn't turn out at all last year. Okay. Cucumbers, peppers, and tomatoes are the only three things I ever grow. And some. Some seasons they're good, some seasons they're bad. This year, what's gonna happen? It's gonna be amazing. I mean, you're gonna. You're gonna be coming back to us and being like, I don't know what happened, but I had the most amazing tomatoes I've ever had, right? Yes. And I can't wait. I've been almost ready to give up gardening Because I spend all this time, all this money and I get like nothing. Oh, well, that is changing today. We are turning it around. All right, so Marley Eudorka, she's you Dirka. I love your energy. You're the best. Okay, so what's going to start here? So we're going to have tomatoes, we're going to have peppers, we're going to have cucumbers. We're going to do some beans. Beans are easy, Nancy. So easy. I'm so excited about that. I didn't couldn't do beans before. Beans are so easy. Arugula, another easy thing that you can do in this time is just attached ton a ton of basil. If you haven't done that, and that will feed you even if the tomatoes are just, you're always going to have some arugula, some basil and some beans. That's a for sure thing. All right, Excellent. All right. So the cool thing is the only things out of this list that we need to start indoors is tomatoes and peppers. And you don't have to start it indoors. It's only if you don't want to get them from the nursery, you want to save a little bit there, or if you have some varieties you want to try to grow that are easier. So if you've never had. Hell, if you've never had any luck with tomatoes, I, I recommend starting with a hybrid. Now, I love growing organic plants and all these heirloom plants, but I will say there's a tomato that is foolproof, Nancy, and it's called a Juliet. And every person I've ever met that's never had luck with their tomatoes, they have luck with this thing. I mean, it's like kind of a grape sized tomato. And I'm telling you, you're going to be giving it away to your neighbors. Awesome. Yeah. So we're, this is month. This is when the warm season is officially kicking off. So you're actually going to be starting your tomatoes and peppers somewhere in here between March and April. This is when we start those last large plants indoors. Especially if you're going to be right at the front of May. Then we really want to start these plants indoors. So you can be getting those seeds, buying those seeds today and getting them ready to start planting indoors. You don't need a big thing. You can just start. I just did an Instagram post about this. Make a few little soil blocks, get one little light, put it over it. You don't need to start a lot of plants indoors, but just those tomatoes and peppers all Right. Yeah. I've never started anything inside before. You're going to love it. And sometimes, honestly, the plants we buy from the store, they're not made for beginners like us, you know, they're not made for people who don't know exactly how to grow these things. So if you start some easier plants, like a Juliet tomato, or if you did, like just a jalapeno pepper, those are really easy and will produce a ton for you. Then those two types, you could just have half the tray is Juliet tomatoes, half the tray is some jalapenos. I guarantee you're going to get some fruit this year. 20, 25. All right, so let's go back before we get to plant out here. The cool thing is that most people miss is you can actually be planting right now, getting ready to plant out in your garden in March, even February. As soon as the soil is workable, that means you can reach down, grab the dirt, and it's loose. That is the time when you can start planting these cool season plants. And so these are things like kale, Swiss chard, cabbages. Do any of those kind of things interest you? Yes, all of those things. All right, Nancy, we are going to be friends, because when I ask people if they like Swiss chard and they say yes, I just know I'm going to like that person. You know what I mean? It's just one of those things. All right, so kale, Swiss chard, and cabbage, those are plants you can honestly start experimenting. And for someone like you, if you've never grown seeds indoors, this is the time to start right now, because guess what? The pressure's off. Like, if the first round or the second round doesn't work that well, you can try again two weeks from now because you've got some space. So anybody here never started a seed indoors before, never started a seed. If you haven't, right now is a great time to one, get my book because it's going to show you how, and two, get the planner. But to start a seed, because if it doesn't work the first week or the second week, seeds are so cheap, you guys, right? They don't cost a lot of money. So it's like a cheap experiment that you can run indoors. And you've got a couple. You've got probably four or so weeks to just start trying it out and see what happens. All right, so, Nancy, we're gonna do kale, Swiss chard, and cabbage. You can start those even here in January. All right. Okay. I just bought your book by the Way. So I can't wait to get that. Nancy, you're the best. Thank you so much. Did y' all hear that? Nancy said she just bought my book. Woo. That's a big kick for her. All right, so we're gonna put these big plants out in the garden. Can you believe, Nancy? They can move out in the garden in February. Wow. When I was gardening in Chicago, I moved these plants out at the end of February into the garden. My kale, my Swiss chard, my cabbage, they all are frost tolerant, so you might need to put a frost cloth over them to keep them going, but they will hang on even when it's cold. So we're going to move the, Move the plants out here. And this is when our cool season is going to be going. So we've got our cool, cool season here. We got like March, April, all the way to May. All right, so our warm season's here. But the cool season, the neat thing, May is going to become your favorite month. Did you know that? No. Because in May, your garden's going to be overflowing from the cool season. Because we're making this plan today, right? And then your garden's going to be overflowing from the cool season. And then you're going to be putting in your tomatoes, your peppers, your cucumbers and beans as soon as frost is over. And you're literally, you're gonna be the talk of the town because excited everybody else in Connecticut, they wait until May to plant in the first place, right? They do, but they're gonna look over your, your fence and they're gonna be like, what? Who? What? Where? When did Nancy become a pro gardener? Because you're gonna have cabbage, kale, Swiss chard, lettuce, radishes, carrots, peach peas that you've been growing since March. So May was my favorite, favorite time because I, I just felt cooler than everybody else. You know, I just felt. And you are too. So we're gonna have all these plants coming out of the garden, and then we start to, just like Ellie was telling us, you're pruning and harvesting and then putting all these lar. These plants for the warm season in. All right. Okay. Yeah. And then we're just doing exactly what Ellie said. Prune and harvest, prune and harvest, prune and harvest. And we're going to get into planting plans in the next segment. But you're going to have these growing in your garden. You're not going to believe this. They're going to grow all the way till October. Yeah. Isn't that crazy? Yes, crazy. In the summer, don't get overwhelmed, because now it's time to do this kale, Swiss chard, cabbage again. Indoors? Yes, indoors. So right around July, when it gets hot in Connecticut, I know you're gonna think it's hot in Connecticut. Let me just tell you. It's not that hot. It will be. It's not that hot, though. When I talk to someone who lives up north, they're like, we're having a hot day. I'm like, let me introduce you to Houston, Texas. All right. But when it's hot there, you don't have to go outside. Let your plants do their thing. And you're gonna start to plant that kale, that Swiss chard. Cause you loved it so much, right? You loved it so much, you're going to start to plant that kale, Swiss chard, and cabbage again right here in the middle of the summer. And now you'll be a pro, because you would have done it in February. You did your tomatoes and peppers. Now you do it one more time, you're going to be like, this is my third time in 2025. Yeah. And it's not that hard, I promise. We're talking a little tray. Have two rows of kale, two rows of Swiss chard, two rows of cabbage. That's all you need. And all you need is a little light. So you're going to start this indoors, and then you're actually going to put this into the garden right around August, September. Okay. Okay. These are going to go into the garden, and again, you're going to have so much fun because your garden's going to be overflowing with tomatoes, peppers, and you're going to come sneaking in your cabbage and kale and Swiss chard. And that is going to carry you. You're not going to believe it, but that's going to carry you almost all the way to December. Wow. Yeah. That'll be so awesome. So these grow even when it's cold, even when it's freezing. You'll have a blank space in the garden if you don't cover it. You could cover it and keep them alive December to January, and then guess what? The whole thing starts over again. Wonderful. What do you think? Sounds wonderful. I think it's incredible. You're the coolest woman for coming on here with me, Nancy. Can we give it up? Can we give Nancy some love, some big hearts, some high fives? I'm giving you a high five. Nancy. I feel incredibly privileged that you selected me to do this with it's wonderful. I love it. Thank you for being here. Tell me what you're most excited about growing in the new year. Oh, my gosh. Everything. Well, I. Yeah, everything. I absolutely love kale, and I love cabbage. And, you know, it'll be so much fun. And I'm so excited to have a full, healthy looking garden instead of my little three tomatoes, four peppers, you know, and maybe a couple of cucumber vines that are not producing anything. Yeah, we are. We are done with those blank spaces, right? No more blank spaces. I can't wait to have a beautiful looking garden. Your new nickname is Nancy. No More Blank Space basis. That's your. That's what we're calling her, right? All right, well, Nancy said she got my book. So the good news is, Nancy, as soon as you open it up, you're going to turn to the cold season, and I teach you right in there how to make a planting plan. Perfect. So as soon as you get it, open it up to cold season, learn how to make that planting plan. And this, this is your life now. Five minutes a day, you're at Nancy. No more open spaces. Thank you for coming on, Nancy. I will see you all day. You're the best. Thank you. All right, you guys, you heard it from Nancy. It's time to get this book. If you have your book, hold it up, let us know. You can go to Five Minute Gardener book dot com. I wrote this. I see you, Marlene. Thank you. I see you, Emmy. I wrote this book for you. I wrote this book for all of us. Because if you're anything like me, if you're anything like Ellie, anything like Nancy, you're a busy person and you need every moment to count. I am the epitome of a five minute gardener, y'. All. This garden you see behind me, I know it looks like I spend a ton of time out here, but I really only prune and harvest. I film myself planting for you guys. And then after I do that planting, I really just prune and harvest. I really just come out here, pick a little bit, and then make a meal with it. And. And that is what you can do if you figure out the plan. So last night, I got to talk to a group of people, and I got to meet a gardener that I have been friends with for years. She is a pro gardener here in South Carolina. And she came up to me, and it meant so much. She said, nicole, this book is a treasure. She said, I have read dozens of gardening books, and I've never read one like this one. And I was intrigued, and I was like, tell me more, because I'm hoping this is good news. And she said, everyone tells people what to do, but no one tells people when to do it. And she said, I've never seen a gardening book that I could just pick up, read a line, and know exactly when I need to do something. And she's like, it is. It's one of a kind. And so I'm just like, well, thank you for giving me my line for tomorrow's presentation. So if you're wondering if you've got other gardening books, if you've read my other two books, this is a book that I've never seen. I didn't wanna write a book that's already been written. I wanted to write a book that I needed. And I have to tell you, as I've learned to garden, and even now, you guys, even just last week, it was a very busy week getting ready to be here with you guys. My kids were going back to school after the holidays, and I had to read my own book. I had like a few minutes late at night, and I was like, I need to make sure, you know, I'm on track with my garden. I'm like, all right, let me turn to the cool season month one. Like, what am I supposed to be doing today? And so I am even using this as a guide for my myself, because I forget, you know, I can know in my head what to do, but it when comes down to having those minutes, it's hard to remember, right, because we're in the middle of our craziness of our lives. So this book was written for you, but it was also written for me. It was written to be a guide so that we always know what to do every single day. So today, when you get the book, you are also going to get my digital planner. And as I went through with. With Nancy, I was telling you how you can now use this planner to make planting plans. But not just that. Every single week, I give you this list. And this is a place where all of us can start to check off and follow what we need to do in the garden. So you get this digital planner. When you get my book, you get it for free. This digital planner is for sale elsewhere, and it makes this book book half the price. So right now, I Think on Amazon, 5 Minute Gardener is 2250, not $2250. I know that's what you were thinking, but it's on sale right now from 2000, and it's down to just 2250. I know it's hard to believe, but 2250? Actually, it's 2249, so even a penny less. But this book is going to be your guide and you're going to get this digital planner. So as we go through today, we're going to be filling this thing out. So go ahead and get the book now so you can download this planner during our break. Right after you order the book, you'll have this on the thank you page. And y', all, we have some other really cool bonuses. I'm excited to tell you about the plate planting method. This is my trademarked way of planting the garden using plates. I filmed this course for you guys from one of the gardens I installed this year. You get the plate planting method course. You're also going to get our organic pest control method and you're going to get my kitchen garden to table course. So all those are video. The kitchen garden to table and the plate planting method are both video courses that you get for free. You get over a hundred dollars worth of bonuses when you order the book. So five minute gardener book.com go there, get these bonuses. We're going to take a very short break and a soon as we are back, we are going to start talking about making a planting plan. And we have more giveaways coming your way. So take a stretch break. You can drink a little smoothie, have a little garden tea, and we're going to be right back. Don't go anywhere. Don't let your, you know, bring me with you on your phone, on your computer, whatever you have to do. We'll be right back in just a few minutes for session number two. We're going to make planting plans together. It's going to be awesome. But before you do that, go get my book right now. But five minute gardener book.com I promise this is the resource you need to make 2025 your best year yet. You saw how in just a few minutes, me and Nancy made a plan for the year. I'm going to do this with you personally through this book. This book literally tells you every single thing to do in your whole entire year, no matter where you live. And you can take it from here. Move it to the digital planner when you get that for free. Thank you all so much for making 5 minute gardener book a best seller in so many categories on Amazon. Let's see if we can move it up on the list of Amazon. They refresh it every few hours. So this morning I think it was number 900. So let's see if we can move it up together a little bit higher. Anybody up for doing that with me today? Yeah, I'm going for. I really want to be in the top 10. So we can, like, send a message to Amazon that gardening is important. Do y' all think we could do that today together? Could I ask y' all for that? I want to see 5 Minute Gardener in the top 10 on Amazon. I don't know if that's possible. I've never been in the top 10 on Amazon. But if we could get this book just for a split second into the top 10, what kind of message would that send to all the big guys? You know what I mean? What kind of message could we send to Amazon together? So help me do that today. Go get your book. Five Minute Gardener, book dot com. I'll be right back after the short break. We have some incredible things to show you, but don't start watching. Do not start watching until you go get my book. All right. Y' all know where to go. Five Minute Gardener, book.com. you can scan the QR code if you don't have it, and I'll see you right back here in just a few minutes. I love you. Go get the book. I'll be right back. They're saying they kind of like this height difference, but do you like this, like, higher, like, going down? Well, I think that I want to see it from my bedroom, because this looks nice because it graduates. Oh, but from the side. Yeah. Yeah. Today is a very exciting day. Yay. I have Nicole Burke with me of Gardenary, who you probably already follow. I would see your gardens, and they are packed and full and overflowing, and I needed an expert to help me. We've created these plans. Nicole is so great to, like, interview us and kind of ask how we cook, how we live. I love to cook, and I love to use a lot of herbs when I'm cooking. That was really important to me. And then you're helping us introduce flowers around the edges of the bed. Best day ever. Exactly. The birds are chirping. Sun is shining. The sun is shining. I think it's time to go. Let's go. All right, this is yours. Thank you. Beautiful. Look at this trowel because it goes deep grass. I'm just looking at the design of the trowel because now. So this is kind of my. Like, this part of it is, like, the secret to it looking pretty for a long time. You know when you're putting together a puzzle and you do the border first? Yeah. So that's the way I like to do it. It's like putting together a furniture plan for me. Yes. A floor plan. This is our plant floor plan. I will say I think that people think that I have someone do my garden, like take care of it for me. Yeah. And one that's not the. The case. But too like I wouldn't want that because it's like one of my greatest joys. Yeah. To come out with my kids and check on the growth of the garden and spend time together like the kids. Like the kids love it. They love to check on their little plants and pick things. And. We often think that we need to grow a garden, but what if it's the garden that actually grows us? In Nicole's new book, the Five Minute Gardener. The Five Minute Gardener. The Five Minute Gardener. Five Minute Gardener. The Five Minute Gardener. Nicole transforms the way we think about gardening. This new book is really feels like a big part of what we learned from Nicole that it just takes five minutes to run out there. I am a massive fan of gardenary Nicole Burke and the Five Minute Gardener way of life. What she's done with creating a movement in the gardening industry is unbelievable. I have learned so much following Nicole on Instagram, but also from her books. When I came across the Gardenary account and Nicole's quick tips on gardening, it absolutely changed the game for me. I'm excited by how Nicole breaks down gardening into small, manageable tasks that compound over time her practical tips and skills. Simple habit strategies are going to empower you to embrace your green thumb in just five minutes a day. I'm grateful that she has built a bridge between all of us normal folk and gardening because she's right. We should know where our food comes from. It has inspired me. It has grounded me. I garden with my children all the time. Okay. If you don't have a garden, like, that has to be the thing that you do. This year. Last spring, I had the opportunity to have Nicole Burke come to my home and help me envision a new direction for my garden. This book will change how you think about food, time and connecting with nature. I want to say congratulations to you in advance for going and getting a copy of the Five Minute Gardener. It's a must read for anyone looking to enrich their lives through gardening. I mean, literally year round garden habits for busy people. I think that sums up all of us. I'm so excited about her new book, Five Minute Gardener and I know that you all will love it too. The five minute gardener. The five minute gardener. The five minute gardener, the five minute gardener. Congratulations to all of you for being there. Go get the book. And Nicole, nice work. Sam. About timing. It's crazy, but the food that we get from the grocery store or the farmer's market was planned and planted months, if not years before. But you don't have to be a farmer to get the timing right when it comes to your garden. You just need a plan. The Five Minute Gardener is the only gardening book that tells you exactly what to do each and every season, no matter what where you're growing. This book outlines all four seasons in the garden, from cold to hot, and tells you exactly what to do each month, week and day in just five minutes at a time. Inside each season, you'll learn the plants that thrive both indoors and outdoors and discover exactly what plants you should be preparing for the next. The Five Minute Gardener gives you a schedule you can keep because each task only takes five minutes a day. In fact, each seasonal section ends with 90 daily tasks that you can complete when it's cold, cool, warm, or hot in just a few minutes. Once your garden is set up, it's the timing that matters most, and the Five Minute Gardener ensures that you always get it right. Order your copy now and get incredible bonuses. Only available this week. Oh my gosh, it's looking so cute. I love it. I know we're not even close to being done, but it looks so good. The borders make a huge, huge difference. This has been so fun to see, like how much you can get into one bed. I can see your gardens are full, but I didn't really realize what that required. And I am always spacing things out more than what this is. And it already looks like you can see that it's going to be full and vibrant and I love that. So that's for me, it's a big surprise in a good way is just how full these can be. So we spent all morning and afternoon planting and it already looks full and beautiful. I'm so excited. So we have all of our herbs and veggies on these four corners and then my favorite part, my cut flower garden in the middle. You said I've got to do my homework. Water it by hands every day for today, weeks, two weeks, and we'll start to see everything, really fill in. So in a couple of months we're going to check back and hopefully see a lot of growth. The gardenary digital planner is yours for free. When you order the Five Minute Gardener today, follow along through these pages that help you use the gardenary method in your own space. Each new exercise teaches you how to label your seasons, plan your priorities, and assign dates to to all the plants you want to grow. The Gardenary Planner takes it one step further with space for you to set up your garden goals for each and every month of the year. You'll have a place to set your planting dates and also track your habits of planting, tending, harvesting, and even eating from your very own garden. The Digital Planner is normally $10 online, but it is yours for free today when you order the five Minute Gardener. This planner is the perfect addition to the five Minute Gardener book as it enables you to apply what you learn in the pages of this book right away so that your garden dreams move from your head onto paper and eventually become your favorite place that you can step into and enjoy all year long. You can get your Digital Gardenary garden Planner for free when you order the first five Minute Gardener right now. No matter where you live, no matter what you do, no matter how busy you are, you deserve a garden that you love. You are meant to live in sync with nature every day. Hearing the birds over your head, feeling the sun on your skin, and gathering a few things that you grew yourself to bring inside and make the most delicious, nutritious dishes. Living a garden centered life doesn't require a homestead or living off the grid. You just need five minutes a day. The five Minute Gardener is your guide to fitting the garden into your busy life with seasonal instructions so you always know what to do every month, week, day and hour, even when you only have five minutes to spare. Gardening isn't just a hobby and a garden centered life isn't just a fad, a diet or a hack. It's a lifestyle. And the five Minute Gardener shows you exactly how to make it happen so that your days, your weeks and your seasons become a beautiful reflection of the nature that surrounds you. Five minutes at a time. Sa. Welcome back, y'. All. Hello, it's me again, Sydney, the head of content at Gardenary. If you just joined us, I wanted to introduce myself again. We are back. Cameras on, energy up, water next to you. We're so excited to get started with this second segment. So over the break, did you guys get a chance to stretch? If not, let's just do a little stretch now with me. Come on, get up out of your seat, move and stretch. And let's get excited to do another really awesome segment. Okay? Also a question for you. Did you get a copy of your 5 Minute Gardener? Where are my new 5 Minute Gardener owners at? Can you guys give me a Plant. Can you do the plant emoji on the dashboard? Rain them down. All right. Oh, my gosh. I'm so excited that so many of you made such an important decision to grab a copy. Also, did you guys get a chance to download your custom zoom backdrop? When you buy the five minute gardener, you get a special zoom background to show off that you are an official owner. So if you want to download that, go to your email, look for the confirmation email, and you'll download it right there. So I also want to talk about our first bonus that all of you that purchased got. It's our brand new Gardenary 2025 planner. And if you don't have it, you can download it from your confirmation email as well. Same place where the zoom background will be. We want you guys to download it and use it today as Nicole's continuing to go through different exercises. So. So don't miss out on that. This is prime time to get ahead of everybody else in your neighborhood, in your community. As Nicole said, they'll all be so jealous. So download that planner. Now, if anyone needs help accessing the planner and all of the bonuses, I'm gonna show you guys this page on the back wall here, okay? We're gonna walk through it together. So when you buy your book, you'll see this, right? Okay, let's scroll down to step one, please. Oh, wait, no, actually buy my book. So you'll go here, you'll buy your book from your preferred retailer. Okay, so Amazon, Barnes and Noble, whatever. And then you're going to want to put. You're going to go here, claim my bonuses. Okay? Click that and it's going to take you to our sales page and all the way down here. Now, you've already done step one, right? You've already bought the book, so you don't need to do anything for step one. What you need to find is in your email you your confirmation code. So see this. Step two, submit your order details below to unlock your bonuses. I know it's a little confusing because you went away from this screen to buy your book, but then you need to come back to this screen to get those bonuses. All right, so you're going to enter your email address, do the one that you use to order the book, and then press Enter and it's going to ask you for your name and your phone number. It's super easy. Takes like 10 seconds. And. And then if you stay on that screen, you'll be able to download the bonuses right there. You'll also get an email with all of them there. Okay. Can you give me a thumbs up if that all makes sense? Thumbs up either physically or an emoji. Great. Okay, awesome. Love this. Oh, one more thing, by the way, it doesn't matter if you bought the five Minute Gardener yesterday or today, you can still claim these bonuses. So again, you'll just skip step one like I just said. Go to step two, enter your email, and that's how you can access the bonuses. Okay, so let's get into this now. Oh, I want to find out more about you today. So we're going to do our first interactive survey. Isn't that going to be fun? Okay, so on your dashboard, you're going to be able to tell me your answers to these questions. All right? And the results we're going to reveal in the next session. Okay, so first up, tell me, why do you want to garden? Can we get the survey up on the back wall? We're gonna. Okay, we're not gonna put it up on the back wall. I'm just gonna ask you all this question and I want you guys to put them in the survey on your dashboard. Okay, so first question. Why do you want to garden? Is it the production to grow lots and lots of food? Is it education? Do you want to just learn something new? How about sustainability? To cut down on fuel and plastic and actually know where your food is coming from? It's a big one for me. Or is it beauty? Do you just simply want to have a pretty place and experience the beauty of a garden and go out there and just relish all of those plants? Hmm. Okay, tell me there. Second question. What do you want to grow? What's going to be in your garden? Are you going to grow herbs and greens and salads, things that Nicole said you eat the leaves of? Are you going to be more healthy roots like potatoes and beets and ginger? Or are you looking for big old fruits like tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers or flowers and native plants? The options are endless. In fact, some of you might be like, I just want everything. So you can also say that too. Okay. I wanted to take a minute As a fellow 5 minute gardener myself to share a quick 5 minute gardening tip. It's just a little story. So before I worked for Nicole, I dreamt of being a gardener. I wanted to be a gardener, but I had literally no idea where to begin. Right. It was so confusing. And every time I would look into it, I'd be like, all right, this is just. This is too much. I'm gonna move on with my day. But when I met Nicole and I started working with her, she gifted me with a sprouter, the gardenary sprouter system. It was February. It was freezing, just like we all are now. But in a week, I was literally, you guys eating fresh sprouts off of my kitchen counter. I was adding them onto bagels. I was making everything just a little bit healthier because I put sprouts on it that I grew myself. You can't get that from a grocery store. Those sprouts that you get even at the grocery store are much older than if you grow them with a sprouter right on your kitchen counter. So that's my first favorite 5 minute gardening tip is even in the cold months, you can grab a sprouter or a microgreens tray and grow some really nutritious things right there on your counter with no sun and no need to go outside. Doesn't that sound awesome? I mean, I was hooked after that, which leads me to actually one of my favorite parts of today. Our first giveaway. We get to give something to you, and that's going to be a physical copy of our Gardenary 2025 planner. We're going to give away five of those. So just give me one second to figure out where I'm going to see the winners of this giveaway. Anybody? We might need to call those out later at the next segment, but just so you know, if you responded to those survey questions, you have enter to win the giveaway, and I'll let you guys know the next time I'm back out here. Who won those five planners? Okay. All right, now it is time to bring our host back out. So please help me again to give a warm, warm welcome to Nicole Johncy Burke. Yeah. We did it. Hi, everyone. Welcome back. How are you? How's it going? We are going to have a great time because you know what we're going to do? Oh, where did I put my marker? Y'? All, we are going to do some work together. We're going to plan our garden. We're going to. We're going to pretend like we're planting, but we're going to make planting plans. Anyone here like planting plans? I love a good plan, and we're going to do that together. Thank you so much for being here. I just checked Amazon and the book is at. Do you want to guess? You want to guess where we are in all the millions of books of Amazon? We are number 1057. 1057. I love you, Avio attendees. She said three. We're not there yet. So y' all gotta help me out. Tell your friends, tell your family. We gotta move that book up. We gotta tell Amazon. Gardening is the thing. For 2025, we're all gonna be gardening, right? So I wanna read you just a little section of my book. Pair of scissors in one hand and a bowl in the other, you step out the back door just as the sunlight starts to hit the edge of the driveway. There are a million things to do inside, but this has to get done right this minute or it just doesn't get done. You stop at the edge of the raised bed and you kneel down. You reach out across the waves of green leaves and start cutting. 1, 2, 3 cuts of kale, and you already have a bowl full. You reach. This is going to be Nancy, by the way. You reach past the kale and cut two huge leaves of Swiss chard. Toss those in the bowl and quickly snip three handfuls of spring mixed lettuce. The bowl is spilling over at this point, but you're not done yet. You stand up and walk over to the next garden's edge. You bend there to snip some green onions and chives and stretch a little to the right to cut a fistful of Italian parsley, too. Just for fun, you snap off a few purple violas and toss them in the bowl. You stand up, brush off your knees, grab the bowl and walk back inside. This is the way life is meant to be lived, right? This is just pure, easy, simple joy. This is a human right for you to know where at least a little bit of your food comes from today. That's why I want you to get my book, the Five Minute Gardener, because it's going to give you the vision of how just that moment, a little moment like that in your everyday life, can change your days to make them so much better. So if we're going to do this, if we are going to have a garden to go cut from all the time, every day, in five minutes, we need to plant it up. Am I right? So who here is ready to plant like a pro? We're going to be giving away the gardenary seeds. We have a huge, amazing. I see. See you, Udurka. You are my hype girl. I love it. I see you guys having fun. I love it. I love it. Nancy, I see you, too. So we are going to be giving away our seeds this session, so stay tuned. We'll be doing that at the end. Now, there are three ways we're going to plant, all right? So the first way we're going to plant is. We're going to plant gradually. So have you heard this? This idea of planting leaves and roots and fruit. So the leaves, you guys, those are gonna be the heart of our garden. Do you see these gardens? This is a garden. This is a real garden. Can y' all believe that? So this garden, this is how we wanna plant. And leaves are at the base of every garden. So everybody say it with me. More leaves, please. Can everybody say those words with me. More leaves, please. I want you to think about your garden and just think of the leaves and just being everywhere. I just want you to think about you just going out there, and it's like all you can do to, like, get through the leaves, you know, there's just. There's so many leaves in your garden. Jenna Kutcher, I don't know if you've heard of her. She is an online marketing specialist. She has a top rated podcast. Oh, something just happened. And she said this. Sorry, I'm trying to. I don't know what just happened to my slides. So give me a second. Okay. I don't know what happened, but she said that starting a garden has been a dream come true for me and my family. And then she said, somewhere between growing a business and raising my girls, I added growing a tomato to my dream list and finally checked it off. Nicole's simple, practical approach made it possible. I cannot recommend the power of just five minutes in the garden. Enough. This book will show you how to make gardening a part of your life. So Jenna is a busy woman. She's running a business, she's got a podcast, and she has two little girls. But she fit the garden into her life. And. And I want to show you how you can do it if you plant this way. Jenna's been, like someone I followed for years, and just out of nowhere, she sent me an email. She's like, I need your help. I'm starting a garden. I'm like, oh, my goodness, am I excited. So as we plant, the first thing I want you to do, the first word I want you to think about is to plant gradually. So planting gradually is this idea of not rushing to the hardest part parts of the garden. So the hardest thing to grow in a garden is going to be fruiting plants. Things like we talked about with Nancy, like tomatoes and pepper. You heard Nancy say, I would just want to quit, right, because these things are hard to grow. But if you don't rush to the fruit, if you start with the leaves, it is going to fill up your garden. So full. And then give you the encouragement, give you the courage to. To go ahead and move on to the next level. Now we're going to be giving you the plate planting method course for free as a bonus when you get my book today. And the coolest thing about this method, you guys is going to take what we do over the next few minutes and it's going to bring it to life because I actually show you I'm in a brand new garden planting, and you're going to get to see how to take this and put it into practice in your own garden in this space spring in just a few minutes. So we've got our lettuces. Okay. Okay. They are reloading my slides. So, you know, we're just gonna hang out here and let them fix their thing. Can we give a big high five to the tech team? Yes. These guys are amazing. They understand stuff I don't. I just know how to grow plants and, and they are doing all the magic. So as we are preparing, I want you to be prepared. I'm going to have some volunteers as we go through this planting plan process. So decide now if you would like to be a volunteer and we're going to make a planting plan together with you. So I see you up there, you're putting your hands to your head. Avio attendee. Can you tell me your name? Can you put your name in the chat so we'll pick you first? All right, If I can find your name. So if you can put your name and your ID and then I can call out your name so they can, they can assign you to be picked. And I see Shelly, Arthur, I see your hand up. All right, so we'll pull a couple you guys up and we'll do some planting plans together as soon as they get me going. So the first trick here is planting gradually. And that's just a word I want you to think about. Just like gradually, you know, just a little bit at a time. You don't have to jump to the fruiting plants. You can really fill an entire garden just with the leaves. You really can. You don't have to head to the complicated plants. You can when you're ready. But there's no small thing. I mean, I don't know about y', all, but it's not a small thing to be able to grow, you know, all your lettuce and herbs to replace all those grocery herbs and lettuces with things you grew yourself. Right. So don't be afraid to start small like that because the small things Add up. All right, so as I get my slides ready. Are we ready now? Is there someone? Can y' all see my slides? Yep. Good. Okay. Awesome. So I think we're up now. So leaves are my friends. Leaves are our friends. Everybody say that. Leave. Leaves are my bff. Like, literally best friends in the garden. So good for your body. You can make so many things with it. I'm going to show you some of my favorite meals to make from leaves as we go through today. Next up are roots. These are going to be a little bit bigger in the garden, so you're going to give them more space, more time, and they're going to need some more sun. And then finally, we've got our fruiting plants. And these plants need the most amount of sun, the most amount of space. So you see these circles here? I'm going to fast forward, so I'm ready for my drawing. But if you see those circles there, that is where we're going to be heading when we're making our planting plans, because we want to be thinking in terms of circles. If you notice, those are kind of like the shapes of plates, am I right? And so we're going to be imagining our plants essentially like a bunch of plates. All right, let me see. I think I'm about ready here. All right, good, good, good. So we're going to plant gradually. We're going to have lots of leaves. They're gonna. You can plant 9.9per square foot, you guys. Then roots, you can plant about 4 per square foot. And then fruit, you can plant about one per square foot. So we're planting gradually. We're not trying to jump just to the fruit. We're going to have this mix in every single bed of leaves and roots and fruit. Now, the second secret we're planting gradually. The second secret to planting like a pro is to plant intensively. Anybody ever heard of intensive planting? Anybody? Anybody ever heard the word intense? Anyone feel like they're an intense kind of person? I think you're intense if you're planning your garden with me in January. So everybody just own it. Let's just own our intensity. Can we do that together? Just be like, I am that woman, right? I am that man. I am that person. I am a gardener, right? Gardeners are intense. We have to be right. I mean, we gotta take care of our plants. I love it. Sandra said, I volunteer. I am that person. Okay? So planting intensively simply means that not having a lot of blank spaces. So here are a couple of examples of what that could look like so you see here in this block, this is a four by four garden. Okay, A four by four garden. And you can see how we've got the leaves on the outside, we've got the roots, they're kind of in the middle on the outside. And then we've got our fruit there on the interior. So leaves on the outside, then roots and then fruit. And y', all, this is in a 16 square foot garden. 16 square feet. So we're not talking a big space here. And this is the amount of plants that we can fit in there. Y' all remember Ellie, who enjoyed Ellie's singing? Anybody remember her song, Spring seed, little seed, little seed, little seed. I, I should I sing it too? No, we shouldn't. This is what Ellie's garden looks like because we planted it this way. Way you can see the leaves there on the front. You can't see the roots here because they're hidden by all that fruit. But we've got fruit growing up the back of the the fence. We've got roots there in the middle. And then we've got all the leaves, all the herbs and flowers there on the front line. And when you plant this way, get ready because, my goodness, you're gonna have a lot. What does anybody remember in the chat? I ordered my book. Thank you. Anybody remember what Ellie said she does in the garden? What are the two things she does in the garden? Because it's planted this way, you remember she prunes and harvests. That's right. She prunes and harvests. So when you plant it this way, look at what happens. You guys, this was my garden last May. All you got to do is, is cut and eat, cut and eat, cut and eat, cut and eat. When you plant this intensively. So my goal is that within six weeks after you plant this way, there is no bare soil. All right? And here's another little layout that you could do. We're going to do a couple layouts for you guys. So when you plant this way, your garden looks like this. And the only thing you got to do is pick and eat. Pick and eat, pick and eat. Now, we're going to be doing a garden plan together. But when you get my book right now@5minutegardener book.com, you can get the planner for free. And I've got planting plan pages for you guys in there ready to be written on so you can literally print it out. Have this for you. I even show you how to make a little planting key all inside the planner. So go grab the book. If you didn't yet. Thank you to everyone who did. I see you, Cindy, with your very cool background. And you, Victoria, too. I love that so much. This is J.J. heller. And Ellie referenced her. This is how we planted her garden. I taught her how to pack in so many more plants. And Ellie's got a smaller garden. But look at the production in this space. I mean, is this so fun? We packed these beds with plants. So much so that in just two small beds, JJ had something to harvest and every single day. And she's a busy woman, too. She's got kids. She's a singer songwriter. You're going to get to hear from her later today. But what she did is she made the garden part of just her everyday little routines. Because of the way we planted the garden, she said, I always dreamed of having a vegetable garden, but I didn't think I had enough land or time. Anybody think that? Not enough land, not enough time. Until I came across Nicole Burke. She taught me that I only need a few square feet and a few minutes a day to grow my very own food. Not only does it bring me joy to cut my own herbs and snack on cherry tomatoes picked straight from the trellis, but my little kitchen garden is also a beautiful focal point in my yard. All right, let's read this together. If I knew gardening could be. What does she say? This is Easy. That is the word, my friends. If I knew gardening could be this easy and this beautiful, I would have started a kitchen garden years ago. Right? Today is the day you guys get the book and start your garden this year. Because I am a gardening genius. But I love this part. She said, Nicole's a gardening genius, but she makes me feel like one, too, too. The amazing thing that's happening today is that you get all the goods, right? You get the book, you get all of our bonuses, and you become the gardening genius. You are now the person that people are looking over the fence to see what you did. All right? So it is time for us to do this together. We're going to make some plans for leaves, roots, and fruit. Shelly Arthur. I see. Okay, so we've got a friend here in room number three. She's waving her hand, but it says avio attendee. So we're gonna do. We're gonna start with Shelly Arthur, because I know. And then. Do you see her right there? She's waving her hand. Raise your hand. Yeah, right there. You see her with glasses and blue. She'll be second. So you're coming up next. Don't go anywhere. Okay. Shelly Arthur, you're coming up now. Are you ready? She's in room number one. All right, Shelly, if you can unmute yourself, we are going to make a planting plan together for one of your beds. All right? Hi, Shelly. All right, let's see if we can get her audio going. Hold on. I can't hear you yet. She's gonna. They're gonna pull you up. All right, we got Shelly Arthur in room number one. There she is. Okay, I see you, but I can't hear you yet, team. Hallelujah. She's unmuted, too, but I can't hear her in the room. Okay, hold on one second, Shelly. Okay, Shelly, see if you're unmuted over there. Her unmute button is pushed. Like she doesn't have the muting button anymore. Okay. She's working on it. Okay, we're gonna go to room three. We'll come back to you, Shelly, my avio attendee, with your smile, your blue sweater. You're on. How you doing? Okay, I can't hear her. E. Okay, she's talking and she's unmuted. So I think it's something in the studio. I think they're good. I think it's the something in the studio. Okay, I think y' all are good. So we'll work it out on our side team. Should I keep teaching? Go ahead and keep teaching. We'll work on it. Okay. Do what? Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. Yeah, they said they can't hear either. All right, so we're just. Hang in there. Stay right there. Don't go anywhere. And we're going to do a little planting plan with you. So what we're going to do is we're going to list out leaves, roots, and fruit that you guys want to grow in a season, and then we're going to put them together with an actual planting plan. So I'll show you one example, and this will get you ready to help me out as we plan your garden. So here's an example from my garden. All right, so I've got the cool lettuces, spinaches, and arugula. Those are my greens. Those are my leaves that I want to plant. Then for root crops, I've got radishes, beets, and carrots. Those are the root crops I know I want to grow. And then peas and fava beans. Those are going to be my fruit. And I highly recommend, if you're just getting started, feel free to steal my list. It's a good list, and it's kind of easy. The one hard thing on Here would be broccoli and cauliflower. Those take longer than anything else and they take up a lot of space. But everything up until you hit the broccoli and cauliflower is so easy and productive. All right, team, let me know when you think the volume thing's working, and I'll go to my friend here as soon as we do. We will. Okay, great. All right, so here we go. To plant like a pro. What we do is we're going to map out each and every season. So look at how this looks like. Let's say we've got this one bed here, and you map out. Let's see. Let me get a little marker here. You map out what the garden space looks like. All right, so I'm going to draw out here what my garden space would look like. Let's say we've got a 4 by 8 bed, something like that. And on your planner that you get for free, when you get the book, you have this graph paper. So what I like to do in general is kind of give something like this. Like that might be one square foot, but obviously this is a much bigger drawing. So I could make something. You just decide, you know, however you want to do it, how big one square foot is. So say this is a square foot. This is a square foot. This is a square foot. That kind of thing. Right? So I'm imagining my whole garden. This is what the shapes look like. And I'm just going to start to fill these in with the plants that I want to grow. So for my leaves, I'm going to start there so I can start putting in little plans of where I'm going to put these leaves in the garden space. Now, my recommendation is to put them around the edges because they need a lot less space. And the quicker something grows, you guys, the more you want to have it close to you. All right? So because the quicker something grows, you want it closest to you so you can get to it. Remember, it's just five minutes. So we want to have our leafy things as accessible, as easy to get to as possible. So I can go around the garden like this, the edge, and I can put all my leafy greens around like that. You could do the entirety of the garden space with just leafy greens all around the edges. So I just keep going. Honestly, I mean, it's harder to draw this than it is to plant it. You know what I'm saying? Like, I am not an artiste, but all you got to do is kind of make the plans like this. You Know of little circles. And then if you get bored, you can just start to do squiggles like this. Like, this whole thing is going to be leaves, right? And you just know that leaves are going to go around the entirety of the edge of your garden. Now, if you followed me for a while, you know that I like to break this up. I love this question from Jennifer Murphy. She said, are there herbs for the cool season? I was going to say yes. So one thing I love to do is also to mix in my herbs here, so maybe I might break up my lettuces. And in the middle here, I can do some parsley. I can do some cilantro. I can do some dill. Those are the three perfect herbs for the cool season, is cilantro and parsley and dill. So I've got those going. And then chives, of course, is also a green that grow an herb that grows all through the cool season. So I can put those in the corners. And then do you guys know what's missing here? We got our lettuces. We've got all of our herbs. Parsley, cilantro, dill. We've got our chives. But we're missing something. What are we missing? Flowers. That's right. We're missing flowers. So we can come in here in between our herbs, in between our lettuces, and just put a couple of flowers and y', all, they don't need much space. I am talking, you know, four to six inches. And. And the beautiful part about the gardenary way of planting this is we have these just fall over the edge of the bed. So you really don't want your flowers in the middle of the garden. Instead, you want them around the edges of your bed. Because that interior space, you guys, the interior space of your raised bed is the most valuable real estate in your whole yard. It is the most valuable real estate. So we want to save this interior for our hungry plants, okay? For our root plants, for our fruiting plants. We want to save this whole interior for the hungriest plants. The most needy plants, the leaves, the flowers, the herbs, they all get pushed to the edge. They are not needy. They are not pushy. They are your BFFs, all right? They are always there for you. I know no matter what's happening in my garden, I can just come out here, walk around the edge of my garden space, and I got enough to get me through the day. All right? So lettuces, herbs, and flowers all around the garden. You guys following me? Everybody with me. I am so sorry. That. I'm so sorry. The audio is not working. We're still working on it. So you know what you could do? How about we do this? Why don't you text? Can you put it in the chat? Do we have room 4 in the chat? Could we get room 3 in the chat so that she could text me? Oh, great. All right, I'm going to have you type in. Is that okay? While we wait on the. On the audio. So first, tell me your name and where you're from, and I'll keep going as you go. Now you have to type. How many challenges can we give you today? She's like, no, I wanted to talk, not type. Hey, Nicole, can you hear me? I hear you. Yeah. Hi. You should be able to see me as well. I'm in room three with Lisa. Unfortunately, there's a problem on Lisa's side. I don't know what it is. They can hear me, and I'm just in Zoom. I'm not in the studio. I'm in the studio, but not out in the system. Okay. So Lisa may need to leave Zoom and come back in. Give that a try. But we can't hear. All right, Lisa's gonna try. Should we try Shelly again in room one? All right, we'll come back to bounce into room one as well. Thank you, Blue. Everybody give a big high five to Blue. That guy is a magician. I don't know how he does it. He just, like, solves all the problems. All right, Shelly, I see you. Can we hear you? Try to unmute yourself. Can we do it? Okay. Do you have your unmute button? There we go. Okay, I still can't hear you. It's the weirdest thing. Can you hear me? I hear you. Yeah. That is so weird. Okay, again, I don't know what to do. So weird. No, neither do we. We've been trying to figure it out because we. I. I'm hoping that. Hey, Alicia Di Tomasso. I know you didn't ask to talk. Would you say something for me? Alicia? Tommaso. Go ahead. One more time. Just say hi. Hello. Can you hear me? Oh, there we go. Okay, so I can hear Alicia. Okay, so I'm sorry to say this, Shelley, I think this is on your end. I'm so sorry. See if you can fix it. If you can't, we can type in who just said hello? Alicia. Yeah, that was Alicia. I just picked on her because she was at the top of the list. Can we try Udurka? Of course. Yeah, let's do that. Can you talk? Hi, Ah, we hear you. Oh, my goodness. Okay. Shelly. Lisa. I'm so sorry. Is it Udurka? Am I saying it right? Actually, my nickname is Judy, but this is how I registered. That's my. My long name, but whatever. Judka is, right? Judka. Yeah. Okay. Not Udurka. I'm so sorry, Judy. Don't be sorry. Judy is great. I love how you did the nickname for people like me. I appreciate that so much. That's exactly why I did the nickname for Judy. You gotta help a sister out, right? You're like, nicole, don't even try. Yeah. I'm so glad you're here. I love your energy. Tell me what leaves you want to plant in your garden, and let's see if we can make you a planting plan. Yeah. So I'm very excited because I just moved to Wake Forest, N.C. had my garden in New York. I just started writing my blog about it. And I started because in the midst of the COVID a lot of my family members died, and I needed a place to feel safe and start healing. Wow. And my garden is so important to me. And so I started right now prepping the soil. And I have to say, I'm so excited because I do indoor seedings. I'm really, like, not great at it, but I do. And so I had a magnificent garden in New York, and now I'm so excited. And I never heard of, like, cold season planting. Yeah. And I'm like, what? We can do that. And so I'm so excited. And I never had planted anything like lettuce. I tried last year. I did kale and I spinach, and it was great. I love cilantro. So I'm looking forward to start my lettuce. And I have a list of everything that I want to try and I love. You know, my question was, like, how do you fit so much into such a tiny space? Yeah. And now with this grade that you did, it's just genius. Like, you are genius woman. Thank you so much. I love you, Judy. You are the genius. All right. I just want to give you a big hug right now and tell you I'm sorry for all that you've gone through. And I just think it's so beautiful that you use the garden to help you through it. And. And I'm so thankful for you being here. So thank you for honoring us with. With your presence and your story. You inspired me. I will watch you on Instagram. And you were so excited. You got the arches going. And on. I want an arch this year. And so it was like the garden was the only place where I felt that I can be on my own and be in silence and cry and heal. Yeah. And so I think gardening is so important. It's like giving life back to. At least to me, gave me back my joy. I never thought I would be smiling again, so. Wow. Yeah. It's made for us, right? I think we were made for the garden, and the garden was made for us. Yes. And this is the way of living, really, you know, so I'm excited to do. To do the grid like you and the herbs and the lettuce. I never, never planted any letters before, so I can't wait. Well, let's do this. Judy, you are my new favoritest person in the whole world. Tell me the size of your garden. What size is it going to be? So I have a big now almost half acre, but. What? Yeah, but I'm starting and starting in the middle. Okay. Right where the sun is, there's more sun. And so right now, like, the contractor are coming to prep the area because I had a lot of trees, so sadly, we need to. We took out one tree, which is already done, and now we're just prepping the whole area with new soil and everything. And I gonna be doing the bed. Like, the raised bed. Yeah. And so I have, like, a space for, like, honestly speaking, like six or ten beds. Well, you are gonna make me real jealous, so. No, I'm just kidding. So I'm gonna work. We're gonna start you here. This is gonna be just one box of your 25,000 that you're gonna have on your half acre. Okay. We're all going to Judy's after this for dinner because she's cooking. All right, so let's talk about. We're gonna go with one box, and let's pretend that this is a 4 by 12. If you have a half acre, I recommend doing a really big. Doing really big beds. At least 4 by 8 or 4 by 12. You're gonna be able to pack in the plants and you'll make the most of your money. So if you're spending money on raised beds or materials, all of you guys watching, I highly recommend build the biggest bed you can. You can. Not wider than 4ft because it's too hard to reach. And boards and things start to get too expensive past 8 or 12ft. So 4 by 8. 4 by 12 is a perfect size for your bed. So let's get you going for the spring season. I heard you say spinach kale. I heard you Say parsley, cilantro. Tell me some of the other must grow plants you've got on your list. So I created a list here. I have collard, green, garlic, radishes, turnips, leeks, kale, spinach, cilantro. Those are the herbs that you said that we can grow in cold seasons. What was the other one that you say? Cilantro, dill, parsley. Dill, parsley, which I love. Okay, spinach. Did you want any kale or Swiss chard or cabbages? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Spinach, Swiss chard. Okay. And then what kind of roots do you want to do? We got carrots, beets, radishes, turnips. Any of those? All of them. The girl is going wild. You guys, watch out for Judy. She's taken over. Okay, we got carrots, we've got radishes, we got beets. And she said garlic at the beginning. All right, and then what about peas and fava beans? Are you interested in those? I have never grown anything like that, so I'm not. Yeah, I mean, I would love to. You said you're doing a trellis, so, you know, I'm going to hold you to that. Yes, I actually have the. From the tree that we cut. We are saving the branches. Yes. So I have a bunch of branches for trellises. Yes. Okay, so here's the deal. This is what we're going to do, Judy. We're gonna pretend like you've got four of these beds and you've got so much happening here, that what I wanna show you is how you can pick a couple leaves, a couple roots, a couple fruit from each of your. From your list. And then you're gonna take this exact planting plan. And every new bed you plant, you just pick another leaf. Do you see what I'm saying? You're just gonna replace. So, like, what we'll put in one bed, we'll do a spinach. And in the next bed, in that place you could put lettuce. In the next bed, in that place, you could put arugula. Right. So you're going to take the category and just replace it. Okay. Okay. So we're going to start you out very similar to what I was just doing. So you're going to cover your edges of your bed. That's where you're going to put your leaves. So that's where you're going to put your lettuces. And I am going to just make this real big. And, like, because, you know, leaves are going to fill up this bed. So I just want To. I'm going to do this, but this means nine per square foot. Okay, Judy, I want you to pack in the seeds. I'm talking plant, plant, plant, plant, plant. The beautiful part about this is this is all seeds, so it's cheap. I'm talking real cheap. Okay. It doesn't take hardly anything to plant these beds up like this. All right? So all leaves around the edges. And. And then we're gonna put in your herbs, your cilantro, parsley, and dill. Now, you could make these. You could just do one bed with cilantro, one bed with parsley, one bed with dill, or you can mix them all together in each bed. Okay. But what I like doing is putting them right in between my lettuces. They're a great pest control. And it's also. I love a salad with fresh cilantro, dill, and parsley. It makes it so good. And you literally can't buy it. You can't buy this stuff at this store. You know what I'm saying? All right. How you feeling so far? I'm like, I'm. I cannot wait to do this. Like, I'm so excited. All right. I love it. All right, so then I want you to get some flowers. So in the cool season, you could do something like calendula. You can also do calendula. You can do from seed. You could also do. Seed some pansies or some violas. I think you can do chamomile as well. So I'm just going to use purple as my flower. But I want you to see how many flowers I want you to plant. I want you to plant a lot of flowers, and I want you just kind of stick them in between your lettuces and your herbs like this. So what this does is it kind of creates a little bit of a. This wonderful little ecosystem. So it brings in the bees and the butterflies as they start to warm up in the spring, and then it also kind of distracts the pests because pests like lettuce. So when we've got our herbs and our flowers, it's a little bit of a pest control. Does that make sense? That makes total sense. Okay. So we are creating an ecosystem for the plants to be able to thrive. So when you do the flowers, then you bring the pollinators and the herbs is like a chill, so that the. It's like a pest control. So it makes sense. Yeah, yeah. It's like we're creating our own little magical space, even though it's just like a little box in our yard. We're trying to be like, hey, this is natural, right? This is what happened in nature. It's just, we did it. Judy did it. All right, so next we're going to move to our roots. So the roots are going to go next in the line. And these you're going to have more like 4 per square foot instead of 9. And you can do. Let's. For this one, let's say you're doing radishes because Judy didn't hold back. I don't know if y' all noticed, but this woman, she's doing it all. So we're gonna have to. We're gonna have to just. We'll do one root per bed. I don't know if you've ever seen this, but some people will say to mix up your roots and to do radishes and carrots together. I'm gonna tell you something, Judy, that has never worked for me. Never worked for me. What happens for me is the radishes grow so fast that they cover up the carrots, and then the carrots never get a chance to take off. So I would recommend, especially since you're like Farmer Judy now with your half acre, right? Okay, so since you got this half acre, then I want you to give each bed its own roots, okay? Just let the radishes be all by themselves. You with me? Yeah. All right, so we got our middle part. There's our roots. Now you're going to have these really cool trellises you were talking about. Maybe you're going to make some with some. Some of the tree you took down. So you could do a whole line of obelisk trellises. You were going to be the Trellis Queen in 2025. Okay? So all these trellises, and then on these, we're going to pick one of our fruit, which would be, like, fava beans or peas. And you're going to grow these up the trellis. So these are going to go plant one seed around, like, all four spots of the trellis just like this, and you're going to be in a little garden wonderland. I mean, is this crazy? Are we crazy, Judy? No, we're not. We are just intense. I love it. You said we are just intense. Okay, then last thing, if you want, I know we have, like, some big greens, right? We got kale and, like, Swiss chard and cabbage. What I do is just come right here and just plant one right here, and then you could take this one off and plant one right here if you wanted. Okay? So the cool thing about this, Judy, is. This is your template. And then in every bed you set up, you can just pick a different plant that's in the same category to substitute. Now, the one thing I didn't get to that you mentioned was garlic. And so I want to show you, you could very quickly just put some garlic, like, right here, Just kind of slide little pieces in. It's not going to get covered up by the lettuce because the lettuce is so small. And garlic. Garlic is such a good protector from pests, too. So that. That's your planting plan. What do you think? I'm ex. I can't. I'm telling you, like, I'm excited, and I just. So excited. So here's the really cool thing, too. Listen, you do this for the cool season, so you'll have this going for, like, three months. And then what my book teaches you is when you move to the warm season, let's say you come in here and you take out this cabbage, right? You. You pick the cabbage in May, So that's going to go away. And when you. When you get rid of it, are we going to have a blank space there? What do you think? We are not. Oh, no, ma'. Am. We're not having a blank space. No blank spaces. So then you just come back in, and you could add a pepper, a hot pepper in its place, right? And then you come over here and you say, okay, the peas are done. Now we're going to put some cucumbers. Oh, my God, you are brilliant. You really are. Oh, no, it's nature. It's nature. It's so cool, right? But I know it's nature, but you understanding the principle, you know what I mean? It's like, I didn't know we could do this. Yeah. So you never leave the garden empty. So you're gonna come out there, Farmer Judy, you know, you're gonna pick that cabbage, put a pepper in the plant, and then you're just gonna go on with your day. Five minutes, right? And through that season, in May and early June, you pull something out, you put something right back in its place. But you keep the categories. That's the magic part of this, y'. All. You keep the categories. The leaves, that's the roots and the fruit. And when you put it all together, you can do it season after season. And, like, y' all see this with Judy, she's gonna now be able to take this as a template, and then she can just apply this to every single bed. And. And you just switch up whatever plant you want. To grow. So do y' all think Judy is the best? Anybody? Yes. Judy, you are amazing. Thank you for turning to the garden. There were a million things you could turn to, and I just. I think it was the. It speaks so much about who you are as a human that you turn to the garden in a hard time. And I know that because of the hope that you are growing in your own garden, that you're. You're. You're gonna change the world for the better. And your smile is so contagious. You're so beautiful. And I wanna see your garden. Okay, I'm ready. Let's give it up for Judy. I have to say thank you, Nicole, because for people like you who have such a love for gardening, it's really. It make a change in people's lives. Oh, it really does. Well, it changed my life. Literally, it changed my life. And, you know, when I started it, I was like, why aren't more people doing this? Why? You know what I mean? And it's like, when you have something that's so good, you can't stop talking about it. I think that's kind of what's happening to us. I think so. Well, thank you so much for this opportunity. I appreciate it. And now that I have the guidance to do it right, I cannot wait. And I'll be sharing with you the progress of my garden. Thank you so much. Y' all want to see Judy's garden this year? Oh, yeah. She better be showing it. Thank you, Judy. I'll see you soon. Thank you, Blue, for working out our sound. You're amazing. All right, you guys, we have a very special guest. Oh, my word. Are you in for a treat? This woman is amazing. And she knows how to plant like this because she's been planting with me for quite some time. So this is a woman I met in 2020. Anybody remember 2020? I don't know. That was kind of a. Kind of a year. You know what I mean? And I was online like this with my gardenary consultants. So these were gardeners from all over the country who were starting businesses around the country. And this woman just stood out to me just as a ray of light, a ray of hope, and someone who was literally obsessed with the garden. And I loved her so much that I said, hey, will you come work with me? And so for years, she worked with me and planted with me in Houston, Texas, for my first company. She now has her own garden company called A New Harvest. Her name is Latasha Harrell. And if there is a woman who Knows to plant like a pro. It is her. So give it up for Latasha. Hi. A woman. Hi. How you doing? Good. How are you? Hi, Latasha. Everybody give some hearts, some high fives. Give her a round of applause. This woman is amazing. All right, Latasha. Hi. You and me, we've been with some plants. We have. All right, let's just describe your car. You know what I'm saying? Can you. Yeah. Like, give people an idea of what it means to work the way we work? What does your car look like? That looks like a full trunk of flats of plants. Yes. That looks like a car seat holding plants. That's right. That looks like sometimes plants on the dashboard because the back seat's full. That's right. Plants everywhere. We. The trunk, the seats, anywhere a plant can fit. Yeah, we. We had to stuff it in there. Yeah. Make it happen. Has kids. She's got a daughter and a son. My daughter's 28. She'll be 29 this summer. Yeah. And I started all over with my little 7 year old. 7 year old named Blake. He is the cutest thing you've ever seen. And when, once we started working together, Latasha didn't have room for Lake anymore. She said, lake, you're gonna be on the roof because the rest of the car is full of plants, Right? That's right. All right, so, Latasha, everyone's listening. I'm trying to get everybody to grow the way that we grow. And I'm wondering, can you tell the people? Because Latasha, literally, y', all, she works in gardens planted this way. She plants them, she takes care of them. She knows what it's like. So tell me, when you go into a garden like this, what are the benefits? Like, is it. Is it really worth it to put this many plants into a garden? It is. I mean, it cuts down on pests. Okay. It cuts down on soil erosion because the soil is literally covered by plants and the sun can't get to it. It. Houston is hot. Seems like year round, it's hot and humid all the time. So you cut down. Right. And even in that day, it's probably hot in the morning and cold in the. Yeah. So what happens is you cut down on soil erosion because the sun cannot get to the nutrients in the soil. Yeah. So when you plan intensively and you have your plants in the garden that are able to, you know, pull from the sun, then you cut down and you cut down on pests because you're intensively planting, and they can't you know, I don't like this. I don't like the smell of that. So you. When you don't have as many plants, then they have full access to your harvest versus intensively planting and complaining. Plant companion planting. And it's amazing. It is. I love it. Yeah, I think we kind of figured this out almost accidentally with all the plants we were putting in. Right. We're just intense, you know, she's intense. I'm intense. We like to pack the plants in, and then we'd go into these gardens, and, y', all, you'll actually. Actually feel it. Anybody here in a hot place? Latasha's in Houston, so she's your friend. All right. Anybody else in a hot place? Yes. So when you're in a hot place, you will literally, if you plant this way, you know, you put your hand under this little spot in your garden, and what? It's cooler. It is. It's like 5 to 10 degrees cooler than the air above the plant. It's crazy how it works, right? And so we've gone into gardens. July, August, no rain in Houston for a month maybe. And it's hot, humid, hot, 5 98, almost 100. Humidity factor of like 110. And are the gardens bare? No, no, no. Packed with all these greens. And luckily, in Houston, we can garden 365 days a year. Yeah, we have. I mean, there's always on. There's no, you know, downtime in Houston area. So the best part, part is when we have those hot temperatures, and a lot of times, people don't want to go in the garden. You can garden all the time because of the intensive planting method. Yeah. So awesome. Okay. But we know. We love it, right? But here's the deal, y'. All. Latasha and I were talking on the way here, and we're talking about all the gardens she's in. And y', all, she told me the saddest thing. Saddest. It was so sad, I almost cried on the plane here. You know what she said? Tell them. Tell them, people. Some of my clients didn't want the intensive planting because they assume that it's going to be a lot of work. They told her to stop planting so many plants. Can y' all believe it? Her whole thing is putting lots of plants in gardens, and they said, less plants, less plants. That is not the way, is it? That's a harder way to garden. Okay, so tell the people. Why? Because honestly, for you, you should say, all right. Right. It's like less maintenance, less time, less space. In your car. Right. Donated to the plant. Right. More room for lake. You're right. So it should be better for you. But you said to me, Nicole, like, I. Why? I mean, they're wrong. Why would they. Like, I can't do less plants for them, so why is that? Well, I love to give the clients what they want, first of all. However, always. Right. However, it does make it the. The job harder. So when you're gardening from home yourself, you have to deal with, you know, things dying faster because you don't have your leaves that are normally sheltered by the roots that are sheltered by. So when you have that open space, they burn faster, and it's harder to keep them alive. So it's. It's harder to, you know, work and. And m. Maintain the gardens when you have so much space. And then again, you add. You find yourself adding more and more compost because of the soil erosion. Yeah. The sun is beating it up. Yeah. We've had conversations, y', all, where we'll say, like, literally to the client, even if you don't want to eat it, you should plant it. Right. Because it will literally take care of the other plants that you want to grow that you're wanting to harvest from you. You actually, like, plant as an act of protection. So if you're wondering, like, I don't want all these. I don't even need all these. What, like what we just did. I don't need all those plants. You may not need them, but your plants need that many plants. And it's more to give away. It's. Hey, what did you say? It's more to give. I'm definitely the fun neighbor. Say that. Did you hear? I'm the fun neighbor. She said it's more to give away. More to give away. Ellie said, too. Right. All of her neighbors and friends are coming in for. And then another benefit is you find ways to use it in the garden. You can add it to your teas. You can add it to your blending, your smoothies, soups. You find more and more when you have more planted, you find more ways of using it. Yeah. That's the benefit of having less same, not less. That. Yeah. Now, I did not prep you for this question, but I have to ask you, what is the craziest garden? Can you describe to us one of the gardens you've gone in that was planted intensively? And. And what was the craziest one you've ever seen? Seen? Can you remember someone personally or just what did they have in the garden? Like, you don't have to tell. Don't say the name, but, like, because I love all of my clients. Right. When you went into this garden, what was the craziest one you've ever seen? One that is intensively planted. Yes. Because it looks like it's plants growing up the trellis. Sometimes you can't reach them. You have plants growing it, you know, at soil level, you have just a hodgepodge of all these options. I mean, and to me, that's kind of the fun part about gardening. You go. You go out tomorrow and you figure, you know, you find seeds that you forgot you planted. So the most big, the biggest garden that I can remember is definitely one that was over planted. You have all these surprises. Things are just, you know, working in sequence with each other. And it's just amazing. I love it. Yeah, yeah. She said she had to tell a couple clients, like, if you don't have me come this often, we're gonna have to work out something where you're doing a little bit more work. Because I can't even get to the plants. That's right, because there's so much growing. All right, so give everyone. Before you go, give everyone a tip on if they go. If they go all in. Judy. Where's she at? Judy's going all in, and she's going to be planting all this stuff. So everyone out. Who else is going to plant the gardenary way, the five minute gardener way? I see. See you. I see you. All right, so if they're going to plant this way, and you've been in literally dozens of gardens planted this way, what would be your one tip on how. How do you. How do you manage it? How do you keep it from going crazy? Harvest daily. Say it again. Harvest daily. Harvest daily. The more you take, the more it'll give. That's the benefit. That's the plus. That's the benefit. The. That's the payoff for growing a garden. The more you harvest, the more it'll give you. That's my one takeaway. That's the one biggest daily. Five minutes a day. I love it. If you had to pick just one that you're one plant that you harvest from the most. Like, if you had a plant like that gives me the most, what would it be? Lanto Kale. Oh, yeah. Dinosaur kale. Dinosaur kale. I. I never tried it before I was gardening. Yeah. I would see it. You only see it in that one little spot in the grocery store. Yeah. And I'm like, kale looks a little wonky. I'm gonna Stick with what. I know. But since growing it in, and I've said this on my Instagram, it is quite possibly the sweetest. It's the best. The kale is the best. It is. Yeah. I love it. I love kale. From, like, in Houston. If you're in a warm place, you guys, kale, Swiss, chard, it's year round. It's every single month of the whole year, right? That's right. The hardest time is summer. But if it's under all this craziness, it's always something to grow. There's things that you can stick in here and there in the garden. And then in the summertime, we have the okra and eggplant that just goes bananas. They love the heat. Versus some of us that are out there gardening, gardening. But we love it. It's always fun. Well, Natasha, thank you so much for joining me, y' all. Give it up For Latasha Harrell, 5 Minute Gardener, owner of a new harvest. You're the best. Thank you. Thank you. High five. Bye, everybody. All right, you guys. Oh, my goodness. We have made some plans. I'm going to walk you through a couple of these little planting plans together. And. And I want to show you what this can look like over a whole year. So I shared with Judy, you know, how she could take that one planting plan and just repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, and you just switch it out. So this last picture really gives you a picture of what it's like to plant like a pro, right? You've got your whole system here. We've got gradually, planting gradually. That's the leaves, the roots, and the fruit. We've got planting intensively. We're putting all of these together in just one bed. And then the magic, you guys, is planting seasonally. So not just planting once, but planting all year long. I loved how Judy said, what? I get to start sooner. This is so cool, right? Most of the world, except for all thousands of us here today, they're going to wait until like, Mother's Day to start thinking about gardening. But you guys, first of all, pull out that hand, the five minute hand, and give yourself another big pat on the back. Say, I am awesome. Because you are. I'm serious, y'. All. I didn't see you do it. Jennifer, say, I am awesome. Say the words. You too, Stephanie. I am awesome. You need to say it more often to yourself. You really do. So you're so awesome because you're so far ahead of the game. You're going to have a spring garden. People are literally Going to be knocking on your door like, can I please have spring spinach? Because the stuff at the grocery store is not good. Right. And this is what your garden's gonna look like. It's gonna be so, so cool. Do I have time to do one more volunteer, or am I out of time? Will my people tell me if I don't? I do. Yay. One more volunteer. Let's see if I can hear you. Where do I. Oh, I see. I see. Okay, is Karen from the ATL in room number three. Can you get her? Karen from the ATL in room number three, please, Please, garden people, let us hear Karen. Oh, Karen, you look so lovely. Can I hear you? Ah, I hear you. Give it up for Karen. She's in the kitchen. She's cooking. All right, Karen. Actually chopping the carrots I grew in my garden this year. Oh, Karen, why are you so good? I mean, seriously. You already got your carrots from the garden. Let's make a plan together. Tell me how big your garden is. Just one bed? My garden is about average. I have two raised beds that are four by eight. Oh, I love it. Okay, so similar kind of to what we did with Judy. So we got four by eight, kind of double length of the width. All right. And tell me, do you want to do a warm season garden since we did the cool season with Judy? I do. Yay. All right, tell me what you want to grow in the warm season. Okay, so tomatoes for sure. Okay. Basil. Parsley. Okay. Cucumbers. Love it. Can I grow carrots in warm season? You can if they're under. They need to be under the shade of your fruiting plants. You can. Okay. And you want to do potatoes? Oh, I'd love to do potatoes. All right. And how about some basil? So you said basil. Do you want to do any, like, greens, like collards or mustards or arugula or anything like that? Arugula. Okay. And then any beans? I haven't been successful with beans, but yes. Okay, well, this is your year. Your year, Karen, for beans. All right, so do you guys see how I did this? As she listed things out, and this is in the book and in the planner on. You categorize things. So here we've got our fruit. So I'm going to take this. I'm going to make a big circle. This is going to be the fruit. Tomatoes, cucumbers, and beans, Then potatoes and carrots. This is going to be our roots. So I know these are going to be planted more like this. And then we've got Basil, parsley, arugula. This is going to be our greens. So if you start to think in these categories, it's going to make the planting plan feel so much easier. All right, now, Karen, do you have any trellises or anything we can grow tall on? I do. I have a metal. A large metal one. Okay. But I would love to get one that connects the two beds together. Okay. We're going to go on that dream. We're going to make that dream come true on paper right now. Okay. I'm going to totally undo this. Let me get my eraser. Eraser. Clear strokes, it says. Okay, so we're gonna turn these beds around a little bit, and we're going to make one that connects. Oh, this is going to be the garden of my dreams, Karen. All right, so we're going to go this way, and then we're going to put another bed here, and then we're going to connect them with the arch. And let's. While we're dreaming, should we have two arches? I think. I think so. I don't think so. My beds are vertical. Like, I don't think I can put two. Oh, do they go this way? And they go this way. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay, great. No worries. So she said, nicole, calm it down. Calm down. You got a little too excited. Okay, so we're going to take this off, and we're going to go the other way, which we totally can do. All right, so here we go. We're going to draw. These are going to be a little bit smaller just so we can fit them in. But we're going to have this here and then the arches. Is that good? That's great. Okay, great. So we're going to start with our big plants, you guys. We're going to start with the fruit this time because we know we've got the arch here. So we're going to do our tomatoes. You can do. Believe it or not, Karen, you can do four tomatoes on either side. Wow, Is that crazy? You could do two. You could do two. But the way it works is you have a tomato here, and then 18 inches over, you have the next tomato. So they have plenty of soil, but they just come up onto the arch together. All right, so I've got our tomatoes there. Then we're gonna have cucumbers and beans. So I don't know. You could do a cucumber on here, but I would prefer, if you could, to get, like, a little trellis here on this side. And this would be your cucumber. I'm Gonna make it red. Just so you know, it's a fruit. But if you could get just any little obelisk, something that could go 4, 5, 6ft up can be really simple. It can be bamboo or whatever. And do your cucumbers on there. Is that okay? All right. And then we're gonna do beans. Now, beans don't need as much room. And you could have literally three rows of beans just right in the middle. Boom, boom, boom. And those plant from seed. They're so easy. Do bush beans. You're gonna get a ton of beans right here in the middle of your bed. Okay. You with me? Yeah. All right, here we go. We're gonna keep going. We're gonna do carrots right underneath these cucumbers. They're gonna have a nice little shade, and I'm gonna put these on this side. Okay. Lots and lots and lots of baby carrots then. And that would. You would want to put that on the side where it's going to get more shade. Okay. Okay. So they're getting the shade from the sun, and then we're going to do just a few potatoes. They're going to be bigger, you know, because they're potato plants. Maybe like four on either side of these beans. You following me? I am, yes. Okay. Then comes the magic. The leaves, our favorite part. All right, so we're going to put these all around the outside. Are y' all starting to get this now? Can you plant zinnias and other flowers? Yes, absolutely. So I would put your zinnias on the outside the same way we did the flowers with Judy. I would put your flowers out here like this, and that way they'll fall over, and they won't crowd your carrots or your potatoes. Put them right along the edge. And. And this is also where we're going to put our basil and parsley. So here's going to be some zinnias, y'. All. Can y' all tell I wasn't an artist? I'm not a trained artist. I mean, I'm working on it. Okay, thank you, Karen. Okay, so we got our. We got our zinnias. Any kind of flowers. Put them on the edge. If they're a perennial flower, don't put them in the bed. Perennial means it comes back year after year. Put that on the out. Don't put that in your raised bed. You would want that to be on the outside. Yeah, I think I made that mistake. I have to. I put in lavender. Yeah. We're going to be talking about mistakes in the next session. So you Won't ever make any more again. All right. And then basil and parsley, y', all, you can put these all right in between. Oop. You can put these all right in between your lettuces, and they just fit in. Oh, I accidentally just changed my marker. I don't know how I did that. But anyway, you can just put them right in between with all your lettuces. I just literally every three or four lettuces, a basil or. Or parsley. Parsley is going to get bigger. But that's why we do what Latasha said to do, right? We just harvest, harvest, harvest, harvest. When something. My basil plant this year got humongous. Oh, I bet. I don't know. Like, if you put it on the edge like that, is it going to make the other. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. You just gotta harvest it. So if something got humongous, I need to cut it. You didn't. You didn't harvest enough. No. Seriously? Yeah. Give it away to neighbors, because it'll keep coming back. That's the coolest thing. Like Latasha said, the more you harvest, harvest, the more it'll come back. All right, so this is a planting plan. What do you think? I think it's great. Thank you. I like it. Y' all like Karen's planting plan? Let me see a high five for Karen. Karen, thank you for coming on. You're the best. Thank you. I'm coming over for some carrots. Okay. All right, well, y' all keep this screen up for Karen. She's gonna take a picture of it. Did you get a picture? Okay. Are y'. All. Y' all want to go to Karen's house later? I do. I can't wait to see what you're going to grow. Look at these pictures. Look at Nancy. She's sending a picture of her garden right now. I love it. Thank you, Karen. Thank you for being here. All right, you guys, how are we doing? Are y' all feeling good? Everybody show me how you're feeling. If you're feeling really good, I want your hands up here. Karen's are up here. If you're feeling pretty good, I want your hands right here. And if you're feeling. I'm tired. Right here. Okay. I'm seeing higher hands. I love it. Well, I want you to give yourself a high five, because you just learned how to plant like a pro. Yes, ma'. Am. I love it. And you want to know where you're really going to learn how to plant like a pro? You're not going to believe it, but you're going to learn to plant like a pro. In my book, the Five Minute Gardener, so here's the cool thing. I break every season into three, three sections. I learned this from doing what Latasha and I were talking about, because we worked in a ton. A ton of gardens. And so what I learned to do is to simplify, because if I just got into the weeds, literally, it was just too much to handle. But once I broke it into categories and gave each. Each time of the month, each time of the season a name, it just cleared things up for me. Anybody, like, simple like, just simple, like, just give me one thing to worry about. Anybody think they would just be a better human if they only had one thing to think about at a time? I would. So. So what I did for myself and for my team is we gave every month a theme. So with Latasha, as we'd work in the gardens, we would say, all right, month one, in this season, we're planting. We're planting. Month two, we're tending. And month three, guess what we're doing? We are eating. Yes, we are eating and harvesting from the garden. And this book teaches you exactly how to always know the one thing you should do in the garden every single season. So you wake up and you go, oh, Karen wakes up, and she goes, it's. What is it? It's April. Whoa. Where am I? So she turns to the beginning of the book, and she goes, oh, I am in the cool season right now. What month am I in? In the cool season. And then she turns to the cool season, and she says, oh, I'm in the second month of the cool season. So she goes in here, and she goes, oh, month one. I need to turn over a couple more pages. And then suddenly, she's in month two of the cool season, week one. And it tells her exactly what to do today when she has five minutes. So that means if you sleep on this, you're not going to because you're here. But if you're one of those people that gets busy or goes on vacation or, like Ellie, you're famous, and you travel the world and sing songs for people, and you come back and you go, where am I? Where is my garden? What is going on? You just pick up this book, you go to the season you're in, you go to the week you're in, and you say, ah, I just got one thing to think about today. I only got one thing to worry about today. I mean, is that good? That's why I wrote this book, you guys, so that you don't have to worry, you don't have to think, you don't have to wonder. You just go to the book, you take the note, and then you get your little booty out into the garden, right? You don't spend time searching Google and YouTubing and guessing. You read the book. You can even bring it out there with you and say, all right, this is week three in the cool season of month two. This is exactly what I need to do now. The coolest thing that I want to show you at the end of every season, I give you something called Quick Picks. And this might be one of my favorite parts of the book. So in the Quick Picks, I list out 30 things to do for every one of those themes. So 30 things to plant, 30 ways to tend, and 30 things to harvest. So if you do nothing else and you just had a busy time, you can literally come. You can earmark all the Quick Pick pages and just turn to the Quick Pick and say, oh, my goodness, today I need to trim the top of my tomato plant. I'll be right back. You run out there, give yourself five minutes to trim the top of that tomato plant, and boom, you're a five minute gardener. You gave your garden exactly what you needed to do in those five minutes, and now you just keep going with the rest of your day. So today, when you get the book the Five Minute Gardener, you're also going to get the plate planting method. And that is our special bonus that shows you exactly how to do what I just got to do today with Judy and with where's my girl Karen? All right, so Laura Casey. Have y' all met her? This girl is a planner. She has a planner called Cultivate and Power Sheets. I met her online because this woman helped me get organized. As a mom of four, I'm like, when do I do the stuff? So Laura Casey is the ultimate at organizing, but she is also a five minute gardener. And she said, in this book, Nicole Burke transforms how we think about gardening, proving that even the busiest can cultivate a thriving garden and in turn, a flourishing life. Her practical tips and simple strategies empower readers to embrace their green thumbs in just five minutes a day. A delightful blend of inspiration and actionable advice, making gardening. Here's our word. Accessible and enjoyable for everybody. Burke's wisdom will help you reconnect with nature and reap the rewards of your effort. I'm going to call my husband because she said I was wise. Can y' all believe that a must Read for anyone looking to enrich their life through gardening. All right, y', all, it is time. When you order my book today, you get the plate planting method for free. Go to five Minute Gardener book dot com. I need your help to move this book up on Amazon. And. And when you do, you get the plate planting method course for free. You're going to love this course, and I know you're going to love this book. So we are going to take a really quick break. But before we go to the break, I want you to go get this book. So raise your hand if you got the book already. Five Minute Gardeners. I love it. And you can unlock all four of these bonuses. So if you go to that page, five minute gardener book.com I saw a couple of people saying, I got your book. I want the bonuses. So if you already have the book, go to five minute gardenerbook.com I see you, Audra. Thank you, Audra Brown. Love you. If you go to five minute gardenerbook.com, all the bonuses are there too. I see you, Deborah Lane. Thank you so much. I love it. All right, you guys, we're gonna be right back. Don't go anywhere because when we get back, we're going to talk about saving ourselves from mistakes. What mistakes? What are. We won't even know what that word means when we come back because I'm going to save you from the top five mistakes. It's the five minute fix. We have super cool guests joining me in the next session. You don't. Do not want to miss it. So I'll be right back. Go get the book. Five Minute Gardener book dot com. I was told by my daughters that I should give you guys a kick, a high kick. Y' all like that? So this is your high kick. All my book readers, all my Five Minute Gardeners, on a one, on a two, on a three. Let's go. All right, I'll see y' all. Right. Back in a few minutes. Take care. We often think that we need to grow a garden, but what if it's the garden that actually grows us? In Nicole's new book, the Five Minute Gardener. The Five Minute Gardener. The Five Minute Gardener. Five Minute Gardener. The Five Minute Gardener. Nicole transforms the way we think about gardening. This new book is really feels like a big part of what we learned from Nicole that it just takes five minutes to run out there. I am a massive fan of gardenary Nicole Burke and the Five Minute Gardener way of life. What she's done with creating a movement in the gardening industry is unbelievable. I have learned so much following Nicole on Instagram, but also from her books. When I came across the gardenary account and Nicole's quick tips on gardening, it absolutely changed the game for me. I'm excited by how Nicole breaks down gardening into small, manageable tasks that compound over time. Her practical tips and simple habit strategies are going to empower you to embrace your green thumb in just five minutes a day. I'm grateful that she has built a bridge with between all of us normal folk and gardening because she's right. We should know where our food comes from. It has inspired me. It has grounded me. I garden with my children all the time. Okay. If you don't have a garden, like that has to be the thing that you do. This year, this book will change how you think about food, time, and connecting with nature. I want to say congratulations to you in advance for going and getting a copy of the Five Minute Gardener. It's a must read for anyone looking to enrich their lives through gardening. I mean, literally, your own garden habits for busy people. I think that sums up all of us. I'm so excited about her new book, Five Minute Gardener, and I know that you all will love it too. The Five Minute Gardener. The Five Minute Gardener. The Five Minute Gardener. The Five Minute Gardener. Congratulations to all of you for being there. Go get the book. And Nicole, nice work. If you found yourself downloading every single companion planting chart you can find online or planting a garden full of just one plant, you need to learn the gardenary planting method. Because gardening shouldn't feel boring. Instead, planting a garden should feel intuitive and fun. And that's exactly why I created the plate planting method. After planting hundreds of urban gardens three to four times a year, I figured out a planting system that anyone can use. And there's no chart necessary. You may have heard of the square foot gardening method, but this is the square inch gardening method. And it's not a bunch of rules. It's a system. When you order the five Minute Gardener book today, you get the plate planting method video course completely free. This course teaches you how to plant your garden more intuitively in a way that makes the most of your space every single season. You'll get the plate planting method and other incredible bonuses as soon as you order the five Minute Gardener book today. Sam, It's a good one. That sound so good. I literally ate one in the garden. Yes. Like, I kind of. Can I just bite in this one? Okay. You got the mic on? All right, here we go. The amount of time that I have spent in this place is less than normal. So I love this idea that you are busy. Right. Because my new book, Five Minute Gardener, is about, literally, it's garden habits for busy people. Listen, and let me tell you what the five minutes will do when you're in the garden. Tell me. Is ground. You. You. The five minutes of gardening for me is one of the most grounding things that I do, and that's about all I have. I'm usually running back to the Rivian. I'm like, running back to the car, and I'm like, oh, I'm going to go in. Well, I think there's something about, for us being connected to something that's bigger than us, that's happening, so you get to play some kind of small role. Of course we can tend a little bit, but to me, to get my hand hens in the dirt, to get nourishment, just literally, like, I'll be running back here and I'll be like, those flowers are so pretty. And I'll come out and I'll get a handful of flowers and take them to a friend on the way to meet them for lunch or on the way to a work meeting. I literally just had a meeting at my label the other day, and I was running out and I had to run back here to get to the car, and I was like, I'm just gonna stop and get some. I'm gonna. I'm gonna bring some herbs and some flowers to everybody at the meeting. And I walk in and I was like, flowers for you. Peppers for you, Rosemary for you. And it is. It's such a. It is such a joy. So I think there's. I think to me, the main grounding thing is being a part of something that's bigger than yourself and that's. That's growing on its own without you having to do anything. And so you're witnessing the miracle of that, and you're getting to participate in the miracle of that. And, yeah, I love it. And you don't have to do that much. You don't. Because it's for you. Right. Really smart. I love it. So tell us, if you have five minutes in the garden, what's the best use of that time in those five minutes? Almost always anything that I see that needs that's looking not great. Yeah. Not healthy. I literally just kind of come and break or prune that off with my pruners. And so. And I keep those kind of by the door so I can kind of grab. Grab them on. I'll look down and I'll be like, I got five minutes and I'll pop down. And I like to prune. And then honestly, harvesting is really. Yes. Like one of the best things because then you're like, oh, I didn't do much. And that's sort of pruning too, right? It is. Once things are full grown, if you leave them for too long like this. Right. If you don't get it, it'll kind of go like that. Yeah. But if you get that early. Yeah. You enjoy like the fruit of it. And so literally I would say pruning or harvesting, which is kind of another form of pruning. And then the flowers, I'm like, love coming down wherever I go and being like, also here's some flowers, you know, it's so fun. So this is what is so cool to me about, about gardening and the way that you do it is I, I mean you can kind of of tell cuz this is very untended. Yeah. But untended. It is just like still so producing so much fruit and I think the only. It's the best upgrade ever. It has been so much easier. So like, you see, this is like what I used to have right here. It's been so much easier. It's actually the trellises have made less work. I mean it's just like they have higher to grow. Yeah, yeah. So that's good. I'll probably practice pruning a little bit more, which is a good practice for me, for my life. Sam. Planting the garden can be so overwhelming because all the current advice out there is for farmers. The plant tags, the seed packets, all of the current gardening advice is designed for farmers and crop growers, not people like us. That's where the Five Minute Gardener book comes in handy. This book is your new guide to planting your garden with step by step instructions to plant every part of your vegetable garden. From creating a beautiful and pest protecting garden border to filling in every square inch of your space. Five Minute Gardener teaches you how to plant like a modern gardener. Someone who needs to make the most of their space so that it's both beautiful and productive. You don't have to be a farmer to enjoy fresh, just harvested food. You just need a plan to plant your own space, no matter the size, in a new way. 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And the Five Minute Gardener shows you exactly how to make it happen so that your days, your weeks, and your seasons become a beautiful reflection of the nature that surrounds you. Five minutes at a time. Sa. Sa, Sa. Hey, everybody, we are back for module three. All right, just as always, just as we did before the last session, I want to celebrate all of our new buyers who bought the five Minute Gardener during the break. Can you raise your hand? Oh, yay. Oh, thank you so much, Lee. I see you. Hey, we're so happy you bought the book. Anyone else? Did Everybody find their 5 minute gardener Zoom background? If you didn't, I'm going to go over that in just a little bit, but that's a great way to. To celebrate. I see some raised hands. Thank you so much, you guys. We're so happy you bought the book. Yay. Okay, let's dive into a five minute gardening tip. My second one. This is based on the gardenary planting system, so kind of that plate planting system again. Before I started working with Nicole, I knew I always wanted a garden, but I had no idea where to start. And then I saw Nicole plant all of these gardens, and she seemed to know exactly where everything should be going. And I wanted to dig in, right? I wanted to know exactly where everything was supposed to go. And then I got to be at an installation where she started pulling out those plates that she showed you, and she started setting them down. And in front of my eyes, I was like, oh, this is all clicking. The big plants are the big plates, the medium plants are the medium plates, and the small plants are the small plates. So then Nicole was out of town, and I got some garden beds, and I didn't have her there to help me plant them. And. But guess what? That system was so easily repeatable. I did it myself, and my garden thrived. My first garden, I had no Other experience, except for observing Nicole do that planting method. And I have been harvesting basil and I harvested radishes. I mean, like, I am truly a five minute gardener. And it all is because of our method. So anyway, let's move on to look at our. Oh, the winners. I have to announce the winners of the planner because we weren't able to do that before. So this 2025 planner, we're gonna send these five people a hard copy of this planner. Okay? So those winners are. Megan Jackson, Whitney Wright, Roxanne Supee. I'm so sorry if I'm mispronouncing anyone's names. Emmy Simpson and Gaynell Rose. I'm gonna repeat those again really quick just in case you missed it. Megan Jackson, Whitney Wright, Roxanne Supee, Emmy Simpson, and Gaynell Rose. Congratulations. You all will be sent one of these planners. But in order for us to get all of your information and all of that, please write down this email. Okay. Write down this email address. I want you to email helloardinary.com helloardenary.com just let them know, hey, I'm so and so. I won one of the planners, and my team will help you and we'll get you one of these planners. How exciting. I'm so excited for you guys. Okay, next, let's take a look at our survey results, shall we? Okay, I have them written down here. So why do you Want to garden? 57% of you said everything. I want to grow everything. Those are my kind of people. That's me too. 22% lots of food, 7% for sustainability, and 5% for the beauty. That's so interesting. Everything. We want everything. I love that. What do you want to grow? 38% tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers. So 38% of you want the fruit. I understand that. 29% lots of greens, 13% herbs, and 9% flowers. 8% roots. Isn't that kind of fun to. To hear the breakdown? I love that. It's so interesting. Okay, let's see. Time for our next survey. So I'm going to have my team bring that up on the back wall. Let's show the questions for the next survey, please, on the dashboard. Okay, I'll just read them off. Oh, yeah, here they are. Yay. Yeah. Yay. All right. What level of gardener are you? Tell us. We want to know. Are you brand new and excited? Are you a frustrated plant killer? No. Shame. You can answer that because Nicole can help. Discovering my green thumb. Getting better every season and pretty close to pro. Where are our professionals out there? We're glad you're still here. Okay, awesome. I can't wait to read you those results in the next session. So I will be back. Before we dive into the next session, though, my team does tell me that we have a few questions to go over. Okay. So if it's okay with you, before I bring out Nicole, I'm gonna go through these questions. So how do I claim my free gifts? All of those amazing bonuses that seem to be piling up. Right. So much value. I'm gonna have my team show the sales page now, please. And we're gonna just go through this really quick again so you can all know how to access your bonuses. Okay, here we are. On the sales page, right click this, order the book and unlock bonuses. Even if you've already ordered the book, click that because then it's gonna send you down. When we click it here, it's gonna send you all the way down to step one. Now, again, if you've already ordered the book, don't do step one. You already did step one. So then just scroll down a little bit until you see step two. This is where you need to be to claim those bonuses. Okay. You're gonna enter your email and then you're going to click OK or enter and then it's going to ask you a couple more things like your phone number and your name just so we can keep track. And that's how you'll claim your bonuses. After you do that, you will be taken to the bonus confirmation page. Team, can I get the bonus confirmation page up here? Perfect. Here we go. So this is where you'll be once you enter your email and answer those other couple of questions. It takes like 10 seconds. And then you wait on the page and you'll be right here. Right, Right. So this. And then, see, download your planner. If you scroll down, you'll see bonus one and then bonus two, and then bonus three and bonus four. That's where you'll download each of them on their own. Okay. All right, team, I'm sorry. I'm gonna send you all the way back up to the top to show them something else. Thank you so much. Okay, this right here is where you download your zoom backdrop if you've ordered the Five Minute Gardener. If you are an owner, a proud owner, we wanna see see that on your background so you can down that, download that, and use it as your, you know, AI background, essentially. So have some fun with that. We would love to see all of you new five Minute Gardener owners out there. We just want to tell you guys are such great participants. You guys are the best audience ever. Nicole and I are having so much fun and all of our guests as well. Yes. Thank you. Can we rain down some hearts for Nicole and all of our guests so far? Yay. I love it. Love those emojis. Okay, our next giveaway, we're gonna give away a gardenary set of tools in the next session. But I do need to announce some winners for some seeds. Gardenary seeds. Look at how cute this is. Look at those zinnias. Isn't that so special? We have got so many good seeds. I got carrots here, bush beans. We're gonna send you a set of seeds, five of you lucky winners. And I have the names right here. Okay? So our gardenary seeds winners. Are you ready? Nancy Holley. Holey. H O L L E Y Nancy. Congratulations. Christy Espy, Lisa Tillotson, Ponisha P P. Johnson. Love that. Stephanie Harris. I'm going to read them again. Nancy Hollywood, Christy Espy, Lisa Tillotson, Poniza P. Johnson, and Stephanie Harris. Congratulations. You just won some gardenary seeds. Yay. Okay, now just as before, please help me give Nicole an extra warm welcome for segment number three. I introduce to you, Nicole Johnsey Burke. Hello, hello, hello. How are you guys? I got my pen. I'm ready. How are y' all doing? How's everybody feeling? Give me a thumbs up if you're feeling amazing. Congrats to our winners. We're still giving away that huge garden. We are going to announce that at the end of today's session. So get ready, get set. One of you guys is going away with a big old garden. Those arch trellises. Oh, my goodness. I just ordered some more for myself. And in this session, we are going to fix mistakes. We are not going to make any more mistakes. In fact, mistakes are just. They're a thing of the past. You know what I'm saying? So we just went through. Hold on, I got to get to my slides. In this session, we're going to be giving away the gardenary tool sets. I don't know if you've noticed kind of how we're doing this theme thing, but we're talking about planning, planting, tending, and harvesting and. And these tools is where it's at. So we finally found a tool maker for us that would make these nice, heavy duty tools, but not make them super expensive. So they're wood, they're steel, they're the best thing ever. And we're going to give away a big tool set to several of you today. And of course, we're also going to give away this incredible garden. So I can't wait to ship this to one of y', all, and I hope I get to, like, come see it in person. That would be the very best. Thank you guys so much for ordering the five Minute Gardener. I just checked Amazon, as one does when they write a book, and we're at 9:54 right now, number 954 on Amazon. So you're moving us up the list. Thank you so much. I am trying to move my slide up, but I think I'm still on segment two. Okay. So they're gonna get me going for segment number three. So we're gonna talk about the mistakes we make. And I want to see if you can see. Stump me. Can you stump me? Somebody called me a genius today, and I'm feeling pretty. Pretty proud of myself. You know what I'm saying? I mean, when someone says you're a genius, you kind of start to feel a little important, you know? And so I want to see if y' all can bring me down, bring me down, back to earth to be normal. I'm not a genius. Can you stump me? So give me something that happened in your garden that you want to know if I could fix it. Anybody got a problem? So you can put that in the chat. You can also. Also raise your hand if you want to say it out loud and see if I can see if I can fix your problem. All right, this one. This one says. What about deer? What about deer? All right, so for deer, you're going to have to have a physical. You're going to have to have physical block for them. You're going to have to have a way that you can keep them physically out of the garden. That is so necessary. So you're going to either need a fence around the whole garden, you're going to need a fence around just one part of the garden that, you know, the deer are interested in. Or you can have stuff that spooks the deer. Spook the deer. That's the rule. I walk with my dogs in the morning, and we have deer all over our neighborhood. And these deer, it's the funniest thing. They're scared of my dogs. They are. Have y' all seen my dogs? My dogs are about this big. They're not very scary. The deer could literally kick them in the head. And it'll be done for these dogs, but these deer run from my dogs. So what you want to do if you can't build a fence, if you're not going to do a big physical barrier with deer. You need to spook them. Y' all with me, you need to scare them. So there's different ways you can do that. The easiest way is these little lasers. One of the gardens we put in in Nashville, they live on a property that has tons of deer. And we put these little solar powered lasers that whenever they see activity around the garden, it shoots lasers. Pow, pow, pow, pow. And the deer, they go running. They run away. All right, so you can spook the deer with lasers. Another one of my clients, she has deer all over her neighborhood. She lives in my neighborhood. And we put up one of those sprinklers, one of those motion activated sprinklers. It's just water. Do deer. Are they okay with water? Of course they are. But it spooks them. So it's motion detected. You connect it to your hose, you put it right next to your garden, and you only. Now, here's the trick. Only turn it on when you're not out there, right? Otherwise you gonna get sprayed, which is definitely what has happened to me in Natalie's garden. But you put this spray head right there, it detects the motion, and it sprays. And that is a great way to spook the deer. So those are my two solutions to deer. You either got to go all in and build a fence, build a physical structure, or you gotta spook them. Lasers, water, any kind of motion detector that comes, comes on, makes a sound, makes a noise, makes something visual. That's a way to spook the deer. All right, y' all keep putting your. Stomp the stump. The genius in the chat. And we're going to talk about just a couple of mistakes that I've seen people make. So this is a little section that I want to read to you from my book. And this was in the introduction. So it's. I put tons of quotes in this book all about habit building because I read so many books on habits. To write this book for you guys because I wanted to figure out, how do we create this habit in our life? So this says, when asked, most of us say we don't garden because we're not any good at it. Y' all heard Nancy in the first session. She said, I'm ready to give this up. This stinks. It's not working. That we're not born with a. That we're too busy. But we know deep down that with time, all of us could learn to grow at least a few plants. The problem then is that in our current. Go, go. Lives. We just can't find the time to start learning or the endurance to keep a garden going. Because what can you actually accomplish in just five minutes? More than you think. As I strive to build new habits into my life, I've noticed y'. All, here's the key. I've noticed one of the hardest things to maintain are the ones I do on an irregular basis. Have y' all found that? This is why I don't ever. You know how people clean out the dishwasher? Like, they clean it, like, deep clean the dishwasher. I'm not talking about cleaning the dishes. You know those fancy people online who, like, clean their dishwasher or they, like, clean out their washing machine? They're doing these deep clean things. Those are hard for me to do because they happen so irregularly. But I'm real good at loading the dishwasher and unloading the dishwasher. You know why? Because I do those every day and they only take five minutes. So this book is all set up to set you up to do little things every day. It's not that big overhaul feeling of, ah, I gotta clean out the bottom of my dishwasher. And that's gonna be disgusting, right? Instead, it's just these little bitty things, like, I just gotta load the dishwasher. That's all I gotta do. It's gonna have that kind of lightness to it. When you get my book, 5 Minute Gardener, book.com. i am so thankful for all you guys ordering. Let's talk about mistake number one. This one's so easy to fix because we just did it in session number two. And this is to follow the plant spacing rules. When you follow the plant spacing rules, I'm going to give you three problems that happen. The first thing that happens when you space your plants too much is you're going to have to water a lot. All right, so we're talking about the 15 minute gardener. You see what I'm saying? If you plant the way they tell you to plant, you're going to be a 15 minute gardener. Maybe a 55, zero minute gardener, because you're going to be watering a ton. The next thing that you're going to have to be doing is you're going to have to be fertilizing. You're going to have to be adding in nutrients. Why? Because every time you have exposed soil and that soil gets sunlight on it, it's going to lose some nutrients. And the last thing you're going to have to do a lot. If you space Your plants really wide is you are going to have to weed. You're gonna have to pull. Plant. What? Are you serious? Gardeners pull plants out of the garden. That's what's going to happen if you space your plants out. So listen to me, y'. All every. Have y' all heard that say nature abhors avoid? I think that's a fancy way of saying, like, nature fills in the spaces. Lori Whitman said, I hate weeding with a capital H, A, T, E, and I could not concur more. Lori. So when you space your plants out, you're making yourself have more work. Please. Okay, just plant more plants. That's a way to avoid the mistake. You won't have to water as much, you won't have to weed, and you won't have to add nutrients. Instead of spacing out your plants, you're gonna prune. Now, you still have to do some work, you guys. But I don't know about you, but I like. Oh, I saw some hearts there. I like pruning more than weeding. I like picking more than fertilizing. You guys with me? So don't space out your plants. Prune. Let's move on and check out this garden. Have y' all seen this picture before? I'm sure y' all are like, nicole, we have seen this garden. We don't need to see that garden anymore. This was my first Chicago garden, and I was so proud of it. But can you see? There's no room for weeds. There's no need for fertilizer. All I gotta do in this garden is pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick. And that's what you're going to be doing, too. You just want to have a garden where you spend all your time picking. This is Betsy Miller. I get to garden with Donald and Betsy Miller. Donald is the author of Story Brand, and he said, if you want to start a garden, Nicole Burke is the one person to call. And if you want it to thrive without losing your mind, she's the second person to call. And now she's put it all in a book. We started in Maintain a garden using her techniques and could not be happier. So that guy looks like he knows what he's talking about, don't y' all think? I mean, he just kind of looks like he. He knows a thing or two. So follow Don. Get my book. All right. Mistake number two is rotating crops. Anyone heard this? You must rotate your crop crops. That's right. No tomatoes in the same bed ever again. Anybody heard that? I. I saw that. In all the stuff, I'm like, rotate. What are we. Are we on a sphere or something? What are we talking about? Right? So if you haven't heard most gardeners say, rotate your crops, but I have something easier. Do y' all like easy? I love easy. I just definitely, definitely need easy when it comes to the garden. So instead of this idea of this year, this bed is for tomatoes. Next year, this bed is for broccoli. Next year, this bed is for cabbage or garlic, right? That's how you're typically going to be learning how to garden. But there's what we do. Y' all remember our drawing? You remember Judy's plan, Karen's plan? We mix it all together, and then three months later, what are we doing, you guys? We're replanting, right? We walk through everything that grows in the cool season, and instead of waiting till next year to rotate the crops, we're just planting for the next season, y'. All. In this way, rotation happens naturally. In one bed, in one season, you're gonna go, peas, tomatoes, peas. Rotation is done, right? The rotation happens naturally within one year. When you plant the gardenary way, when you plant the Five Minute Gardener way, this book is going to show you how to. Instead of thinking about next year, you just think about the next season. So we go spinach to arugula to basil, back to spinach. It's just rotating the plants in that one spot space. Not over years, but in seasons. So don't rotate, replant. This is my garden in early spring. And I didn't take. You know, I didn't think, oh, I have a lettuce here. I can't have a lettuce here next year. No, I just replaced that lettuce with some basil and some beans. And then I'm ready to replant some lettuce a few months later. So no rotation necessary. Everybody go like this. This is what. Yes. Oh, yeah. We need some music. That's right. All right, so no more rotating crops. We're just replanting. Okay? The rules. We're just a bunch of rule breakers, us Five Minute Gardeners. All right, Karen, you were into that, and I appreciate that action right there. I just want to say you have a future in dance. Dance teaching for sure. All right, so mistake number three is fertilizing. Just say no to Miracle Grow. All right? Just say no. We're not doing none of that. None of that synthetic stuff, all right? We don't need chemicals. We don't need stuff that people make in a factory. Look, at swad. Is it swad? Swat. Yes. She just went like this. She said, not in my garden. It's not happening, right? So the whole reason we're growing a garden is for it to be so, so good for us. And when we bring in chemicals that were made in factories, we no longer know what's really going on. Nature is miraculous, you guys. Nature's got this. Have you ever been on a nature hike? I think nature knows how to grow plants. You know what I'm saying? So don't doubt nature when it comes to your garden. Plant it the way I teach you in Five Minute Gardener and watch the magic happen. Watch it fill in and overflow. Like Latasha was saying, it's just gonna fill in. So instead of fertilizing, I just want you to feed. And what I mean by this is, in between each season, and don't worry, I teach you how to do it in five Minute Gardener, in between each season, a little bit of compost. Just a little. Not a lot. And what we're thinking about here, this is a think about nature thing. So think with me here. Are you ready? You ready? Going to follow me? This is so cool. Okay. In nature, a plant grows up, right? Becomes amazing, does its thing. La, la, la. So beautiful plant. Very productive. And then in the garden, like these annual plants, right, what happens to dies, right? It puts off seed to grow next year, and then it withers away. Frost kills it here, heat kills it. Some way, it dies in nature. What would happen to that plant? Tell me in the chat, what would happen to the plant in nature when it dies, does someone come and pull it up? No, it. Oh, I love it. Destiny said, don't panic. It's organic. That's right, Destiny. It decomposes. That's right, Leslie and Donna. And it turns to nutrients. That's what Donna said. She knew, right? So in nature, if we don't touch it, the plant falls down to the ground, lays there dormant, and becomes soil. Is nature cool, y'? All? Nature is the genius. You know what I'm saying? Not me. It's nature. So this thing decomposes, and it becomes the soil for the next season, but we're kind of rushing it, okay? We're not miracle growing it, but we are rushing it because we're going from season to season to season without letting that plant fully decompose there. So we just mimic nature, and we put a little bit of compost right at the bottom of the new plant. You following me? So we're going to go pee Then to make. Not p. I'm sorry. That probably you were like, nicole, did we go to the bathroom? No. Okay, we're going to go like sugar snap pea. Okay? We're talking about food here. So sugar snap pea, pull it out, Just cut it from the base, add some compost, tomatoes, and then go back to peas. All right? And each time we go back, we add a little bit of compost. That's it. Just a little bit. This is what the garden looks like when you don't fertilize. This is a garden. We're gonna. You're gonna get to meet this gardener in just a minute. And this is what the garden looks like when you don't fertilize and you let nature do its magical, amazing, genius thing. You just feed it a little bit, and then nature takes over and does the work. And then you're like, whoa, how do I. How do I tame this thing? Right? You're about to meet one of these gardeners, and you're going to love her perspective on how crazy a garden is like this. All right? Dean Graziosi. I got to meet him this year, and I convinced his wife to become a five minute Gardener. And he said, I've been doing this long enough to know. A true industry leader. Nicole combines innovation, real world application, and a depth of caring for others, which has resulted in the garden revival sweeping the nation. Her teaching is so contagious. My wife was hooked in minutes after finding her. I mean, I told you. All right? And now we're rearranging our yard for a kitchen garden. This book is a game changer for anyone looking to bring more beauty, balance, and joy into their life. Don't miss it. You heard Dean. Mistake number four is PA Pesticides. Don't use them, y'. All. There's no such thing as a pesticide. Did you know that? There's no such thing as a pesticide. You know what? There is a such thing as an insecticide. Let's say that again. There's no such thing as a pesticide. There's only an insecticide. You know what that means? Everything dies. It's not selective. So when you think you're just dealing with pests, you're actually losing it all. You're losing the bees, the butterflies, all the good guys, all the good girls. They're girls, right? Yeah, the good ones are girls. So don't use pesticides, all right? What you want to do instead is defend. Don't spray, defend. We talked through this with Judy about putting herbs and flowers around the edges of the garden, using that as a natural defense. We talked with this about, with Karen and others about putting things like garlic in between your greens. Actually, I think that was with Judy, too, using garlic. We talked about pruning the garden as a way of defending it. So when you prune away dead parts of the plant or dying parts or old parts of the plant, you're protecting the plant from pests. I completely stopped spraying anything in my garden when I first started my business back in 2015. I sprayed a little. And I've moved to the point now where, where if the plant is just so attacked, I just take it out of the garden rather than spraying, because there's no such thing as pesticide. There's only insecticide. This is Ellie Holcomb's garden, y'. All. That time I got to plant it when she left to go make some music. And she said, nicole has truly helped me become a five minute gardener. Her method of planting and tending a garden has inspired me for years. You'll find a way to fold gardening into your daily life in these pages. Y' all. Look at her garden. So packed because we planted it the way we just talked about in the second session and look at this life. Do y' all see any pests? Do y' all see any pests? The neat thing about her garden is she's got all these native plants and flowers around it and she's just got this beautiful ecosystem working together to prevent pests. When you get the book today, we have a special bonus, which is my organic pest control guide. With this guide, y', all, this was created by gardenary consultants. And with this guide, you're going to be able to look up any challenge you have in the garden and you can see what to do with it, why it's there, and then how to organically take care of it. The last mistake I don't want you to make is pulling plants. Don't pull plants if you're entering a cooler season or a hot season if they're doing well. Instead. Instead, I want you to cover them. I've written three books. One thing I cover in this new book that I really have never covered before is stretching the seasons, growing more into the winter, out of the winter, into the hot season, out of the hot season. And a huge part of this is just giving your plants that little edge, that little edge over the changes in the temperatures. And you'll get that in this place book. I'll teach you how to do it. But essentially think about that before you take something out of your garden, Ask yourself, if I covered this with a frost cloth, could I get two more weeks out of this? If I covered this with a shade cloth, could I get this through the hottest part of summer? And those little steps, just something so simple. A five minute act of covering a plant will give you so much more growth. I don't know about you. Have y' all had this happen where it gets cold or it gets hot, but then it gets better and you're like, you ruined my plants for nothing, Right? And so instead of pulling those plants, just cover them and you'll keep them longer and you'll get to keep eating from the garden, which is the whole point. My good friend Barry Baumgartner, she is the owner of Sage Management and the founder. She said quick, easy, actionable tips in Nicole's signature style, coaching you through health and happiness with humor and humility. This book is all the things and it makes you want to garden. More importantly, it makes it all so doable, season by season. Just one of the reasons I love this book. So fun. So we have a special guest. We have more than one guest. We have two. And y' all can keep trying to stump me here. We're going to do some. I'm going to try to, you know, kind of solve your problem since I'm a garden genius. Someone said today. But before that, we have our guests here. Am I right? Are our guests here? Our guests are here. Y' all are gonna love these people. All right, this is some five minute gardeners you guys have to meet. Right here we got Susie Mackey. How are you, Susie? I'm fine. I'm so happy to be here. And we have Connie Schimmel. How are you, Connie? I'm good. Good to be here, too. Now y' all are snowed in. Y' all were supposed to be together, right? Because you're best friends. Friends. We can't be together. So they were supposed to be together, but because of the snow, they're both zooming in from different places. But Connie and Susie, you got to tell us, did you got. How did you guys start gardening in 202024 was a big year for both of you. So Connie, you're going to go first, then Susie, because that's kind of how this whole thing went down. So, Connie, how did you start gardening in 2024? Well, I wanted to start a garden, but I didn't know how. I'd grown perennials and roses and that kind of stuff. But I heard about you through a friend and I got One of your books and thought, this is what I want. This is so cool. But it took a while to get you. Oh, no, not me. I found out that she had moved to Nashville, and so that was fabulous. And she came over and consulted with me, and we started the garden. And there's more to the story to that, but I'll let Susie go next. How about you, Susie? How'd you get started? You were gardening before I met you? Well, I was doing a little bit. I had tomatoes and cucumbers. My grandma. Kids would come and pick the cucumbers off the vine, but that's about all I had. And Connie started this fabulous garden that she learned how to do from you. And it was just this wonderful above the ground. It was awesome. And she had so many plants in there. I'd never seen so many plants in one place. And I just decided I had to have it, too, because I wasn't eating. I'm a widow, and it's so hard to cook for one that you just. You know, you just wind up not eating. It's. And. And that's what I was doing. My doctor even got worried because I was losing weight. He thought I had cancer. I. I didn't. I just. I was by myself. And didn't it. If. If you think about cooking a whole meal for one person, you understand. So that. And then. Because I've always heard that people. Everybody's getting cancer now, like my husband, because we all eat this food out of the grocery stores instead of growing. Everybody used to grow their own food. Yeah. And. And now no one does. Or some of us are starting, I guess. Yeah. But it's got. It's healthier. It is healthier. I love it. Well, I got to meet both of you, I guess. Connie, technically, we met in 2023, and we. We walked through Connie's yard, y'. All. And Connie. Connie made the mistake. You made a big mistake. And you asked me what I wanted to do in your yard. Right. And she said, what do you want to do? And I said, oh, hold my trowel, because I have a drawing for you. So I drew out something big. And what did you think about it, Connie? Well, I must say I wanted two small, rectangular, raised beds. Yeah. Because I thought I would be so overwhelmed with gardening. And then Nicole says, no, we're going to go big. You've got to go big. And I think it was the best decision ever, really. I mean, I always had a fallback that if it was overwhelming, I could just plant perennials. And it'd be beautiful because the beds were so pretty. But. And then. But the other thing that tipped me over. Well, I knew that I could do perennials and just chill. And then the other thing was I got food poisoning. And it was right before you came for that consultation. And that came out of my refrigerator, I think, from salad from the grocery store. Wow. I'm like, this is it. I'm not doing it again. And we went big, and I had a lot of salad last year. It was wonderful. You sure did. All right, so. So let's just go making that decision. You went big. And tell me what has changed in your life? So, y', all. You saw her garden in the last segment. I should have set this up. So her garden was in my background, but her garden was in the background that whole segment. You saw all those plants. So Connie called me a couple times. She's like, ah, paging. Paging Nicole Burke. But tell me what it was like 20 to walk out there. How did your life, just your everyday life change? Going from maybe having a little bit of a garden or haven't really growing a lot of your food and then suddenly having this big garden right outside your door. How did your, like, everyday life change from that? Oh, it. It was so much fun. I mean, immediately everything changed. I had. Well, it's really funny because I just look over my fence and I'd have neighbors in the. In the garden that I didn't know were in the garden just coming to look. That was fun. I could give away produce. I started kale. I mean, I liked kale, but I never ate a lot of kale. Yeah. And it was the backbone of the garden, the kale. I think it lasted for eight months. Wow. Along with snapdragons. I didn't know about snapdragons. And. But anyway, that was wonderful. Became much healthier. And because you eat things you wouldn't normally eat if they're in your backyard. I mean, there it is. Yeah. I saw Ellie biting into that green pepper earlier. I've done the same thing. Just. I mean, you just can't believe it. So pretty. And I don't eat green peppers, but I do now. I haven't been ill since we put in the garden. I don't know that that's all, but. But it's made a huge difference. Wow. And you eat. I mean, I remember the last time I was with you, you were literally telling me. You're like, I am. You're telling me all the things you've made from your garden. Will you tell us Just like three to five things you've eaten from your garden. One of the most fun things was salsa verde because we grew tomatillos. Yes, you planted. Well, you were so helpful in helping me plant. But Nicole loves jalapenos, and she planted a lot of them. I thought she's borderline crazy. We ate those jalapenos. I mean, all of them. I pickled them. We ate them in stews and in Mexican food. Oh, it's just lovely. But in salsa verde with the tomatillos, oh, it's just delicious. That also, we had a surprise. She planted. We. We planted broccoli, but it turned out to be Romanesco, and I thought it was a foreign invader. I had never seen Romanesco growing. And it's a really beautiful, unusual plant. Yeah. And that was a lot of fun. We had lots of broccoli and beets and. Oh, Lord, everything. I don't ever do stuffed green peppers, but now I do stuffed green peppers. Stir fry. So fun. Amazing. Yeah. She. I was a real pro, you know, and I was like, this is going to be cauliflower. I think maybe I told you because I think you had broccoli, too. I said, that's cauliflower. And she sent a picture to me, and she said, that is the weirdest cauliflower I've ever seen. And I was like, oh, it's a different plant. I didn't know. I love. How about you, Susie? What are some things. I just love your story, how you have kept yourself going all these years and you're already a very healthy person. But I love that you're now, like, you want to take care of your body, feed yourself good food. So, Susie, what are your favorite things to eat from the garden? Well, I've been. I eat salad every day now, and it's so easy. It's so much easier than going to the grocery. You just go out and get it and bring it in. And, I mean, it's a wonderful addition to your life. Even at this age, you can change and be healthier. And it's a. It's. And you did it for me, Nicole. And I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. It's easy. It's not a burden. It's pleasant. It's good for you to go outside and be there in the wonderful air, you know? And I just, you know, carrots and everything. It's just. It's fabulous. I can't tell you how much I appreciate what you've done for my life. Oh, that's so fun. Well, the best part is too Susie. You know, Susie put in her garden in the middle of the summer. Anybody try to do that before? So she got her garden going. So she got, she didn't get all the great parts of the year that Connie got. But now here we are for 20, 25. You're ready. The garden is set up and now we just got to plant it. You're going to get the full spectrum of 20, 25, which is going to be awesome. I can't believe it's going to be even better than last year. I, I can't wait. So you ladies are, to me, the picture perfect of health. Y' all want to, I want to look like y' all when I grow up. You know what I'm saying? So y' all give us some secrets on what are some tips to enjoying the garden as we get older, as we get into, like later into our years. And tell us, tell us how long you think you're gonna be eating from the garden. How many more years? Ooh, I hope a long time. I'm planning on at least 10. Yeah. How about you, Connie? Oh, 20, 30. I love it. I'm 78 already. I'm older than she is. 78. No way. No way. I'm 74. And I think another good secret to a garden is a little table in the center or you can sit with your friends and have wine time. I love that. I love it. Especially in Tennessee because it gets hot and it's have a shake spot. I love it. What would be your quick tip? What would you give as a tip for everybody watching to make the garden part of their life next year, this year? Oh, there's just so much good food out there. And every time you go out there, it's beautiful. And so it's not a chore, it's just happiness. I don't know about a quick tip. I'm just going to harvest. Harvest. I didn't harvest enough last year as you. Well, yeah, some things got out of control because I didn't quite understand how much you have to harvest. I'm going to harvest more this year. I love that. How about you, Susie? What's your tip? Well, my grandkids even love it now when Caroline, who's an 18 year old granddaughter, comes to my house to have dinner, she heads straight out, she says, grammy, where's the scissors? You know, and heads out and, and gets all these wonderful herbs to make a dipping sauce for bread with olive oil. Instead of eating butter, I mean, think of It. Wow. It's fabulous. It's what you feel really good when you teach your grandkids some of this stuff. Yeah, it's beautiful. Yeah. You're gonna change the generations. That's awesome. I love it. Well, aren't these women awesome? Can y' all give Connie and Susie the biggest hearts? They are best friends. They are best friends, y'. All. What better friend gets you into the garden? How can you find a friend that will get you into the garden? I just want to be. I'm trying to get into their circle and see if I can be the third one wheel on the best friend track right here. You ladies are so inspiring to us, and I just am so thankful y' all both went for the garden this year, and you both let me do exactly what I wanted to do in your yard. You're an example to all of us, and we're all making it to 100 with our gardens. So, Susie, you're gonna be in there for a long time. We can't be it. That's right. All right. I love you guys. Thank you for joining us today. Aren't they amazing? Have you guys seen the specials on blue zones? Have you seen Dan Buettner and his stories about blue zones? They have studied that. Almost everyone who's making it into their 90s and becoming centurions, if they're making it to 100, almost everyone in these studies, they have gardens. Gardening is part of their everyday life. They're not farmers. They're gardeners. They are five minute people. They just head out and enjoy the garden just five minutes at a time, y'. All. That's the kind of lifestyle that I want to live. That's the kind of lifestyle we all can live, all of you here. This is a possibility for all of us. This is Connie's garden, by the way. You could have just this one bed, right? I made Connie go big, but. But she, you know, you could have just this. This one bed. You could have just this one section. You could go big, but it don't. You don't have to go big to make a big change in your life. And these blue zones, these studies are showing us that the secret to living longer is having a purpose. Waking up in the morning and going, I wonder what happened to the radishes last night. I wonder if the garlic got any bigger. I wonder if the tomato is ripe. And that little expectation, you guys, that little hope that comes, it gets you going. It gets you out of bed. It keeps you going. And like Susie shared, like Connie shared This isn't just a joy that we get to have ourselves, but as we make this part of our everyday life, we impact other people. Connie, her daughter Ruth is always at her house and eating all the food. Every time I come to see Connie, Ruth's in there eating. And then Susie just told us how her 18 year old granddaughter is now eating from the garden too. You don't understand how powerful the trickle down is, how powerful it is when you take a step, when you make the garden part of your life, how many people that you impact just with those five minutes. So who is a five minute gardener? Raise your hand if you are officially in 2025, a five minute gardener. I love it. Remember our sentence at the beginning. I see you, Cindy Betton, she is dancing with her book. Go Cindy. I love it. And Paige from East Texas, I see your book too. So awesome. So when we started this, we talked about 2025 being our best year ever because we're just going to spend five minutes a day in the garden. And this is your guide. If you don't have the book yet, we have have the best bonus to add to our list of a thousand a million bonuses which is this organic pest control course ebook. So what this does is it lets you look up any kind of pests that you have. And we divided this by region. So you look this up by the region, you can see what kind of pest you're struggling with. And then we tell you what vegetables it grows on and we tell you when it's going to be there, what kind of damage it looks like and then how to control it. Organic gardening is the thing, you guys. It is not worth having a garden if it's not an organic garden. I truly believe that. And so this pest control book is going to help you because here's the deal. The pests are coming. I got word for you, okay? The pests will be there. We can't keep them from coming, but we can control them. And that is the theme in my book Five Minute Gardener. And it's also the theme inside this ebook. You get that plus the digital planner, plus the plate planting method course, plus the kitchen garden to table course. And that's what we're going to be talking about in this next segment. We're going to talking about food. Who is feeling hungry? I all this Connie's talking about stuffed peppers and jalapenos and salt. I'm getting hungry. So in this last segment, y', all, we're going to have the best time because we're going to Be eating. And I wish. I wish I could transport all y' all into this room, but I have some very special guests who are going to come out and eat from the garden with me. I'm going to show you how I make food five minutes at a time from the garden. It's going to be amazing. But you know where you get a lot of tips on what to cook from the garden is from my book, Five Minute Gardener. Every single season, I have this section that I love. It's my new favorite word. Three words. Real fast food. Food. Have y' all heard of this? So we've heard about the real food movement, and we know about fast food, but what we're talking about in Five Minute Gardener is real fast food. You get it? It's kind of like a play on words. Like, it actually is real. It's real food, and it's also real fast. You following me? Yeah. Funny. No. Okay. So I want to show you that you don't have to be in the kitchen all the time. You. You don't have to be a homesteader. You don't have to can and ferment and do all these crazy things, but you can eat from the garden and you can make yourself something in just five minutes. So come back for that segment. But before you do that, get my book. Get my book. Get my book. Get my book. It's 2249 on Amazon. We're in the nine hundreds on Amazon. So I need y' all to help me move the book on up to the top. At least the top 100. I think we can at least do that, right? So tell your friends, tell your family. Share about this on Instagram and say, hey, go get this book. Be like Destiny o'. Neil. Be like Vienna Gusha. Be like Cindy and Gioni. Be like Punky and Leanne. Be like Deborah. Be like Jennifer Everett. Get this book. Get it right now. And let's make this year the best ever. So 2025 is going to be the year we all garden five minutes at a time. I'll see y' all back in just a few minutes. Take me with you. You gotta go get some food or whatever. I'll be right back. We're gonna eat together and celebrate the garden one last time. I'll see you soon. Bye for now. We often think that we need to grow a garden, but what if it's the garden that actually grows us? In Nicole's new book, the Five Minute Gardener. The Five Minute Gardener. The Five Minute Gardener. Five Minute Gardener. The Five Minute Gardener. Nicole transforms the way we think about about gardening. This new book is really feels like a big part of what we learned from Nicole that it just takes five minutes to run out there. I am a massive fan of gardenary Nicole Burke and the five Minute Gardener way of life. What she's done with creating a movement in the gardening industry is unbelievable. I have learned so much following Nicole on Instagram, but also from her books. When I came across the garden area count and Nicole's quick tips on gardening, it absolutely changed the game for me. I'm excited by how Nicole breaks down gardening into small, manageable tasks that compound over time. Her practical tips and simple habit strategies are going to empower you to embrace your green thumb in just five minutes a day. I'm grateful that she has built a bridge between all of us normal folk and gardening because she's working right. We should know where our food comes from. It has inspired me. It has grounded me. I garden with my children all the time. Okay, if you don't have a garden like that has to be the thing that you do. This year this book will change how you think about food, time and connecting with nature. I want to say congratulations to you in advance for going and getting a copy of the Five Minute Gardener. It's a must read for anyone looking to enrich their lives through gardening. I mean literally year round garden habits for busy people. I think that sums up all of us. I'm so excited about her new book, Five Minute Gardener and I know that you all will love it too. The 5 minute gardener the 5 minute gardener. The 5 minute gardener. The 5 Minute Gardener. Congratulations to all of you for being there. Go get the book. And Nicole, nice work. If you're growing organically, you've got to know there will be be pests. But don't stress there's a way to deal with them in a natural way that doesn't ruin your garden. Enter the Organic Pest Control Plan. This method was developed by our regional gardenary consultants and it outlines everything you need to know to deal with pests in the garden organically. Any pest or disease that shows up, you can look it up in the Organic Pest Control Guide. There you'll find out why the problem appeared and how you can treat and manage that challenge organically. The Organic Pest Control Guide is yours for free when you get the book Five Minute Gardener today. And it's just one part of many bonuses that will ensure your success with your own organic garden for many seasons to come. Sam, That almost doesn't look real. I know it's insane. That almost does. Not really fun. Are you excited to get our summer veggies? That's a good summer veggie dance. Oh, this is awesome. Isn't it cool? Beautiful. I love it. Okay. Isn't this amazing how they made it this slide? Really cool. I found it. It's amazing. Oh, it's so fun. Really beautiful. And I. It does do exactly what I wanted out here. If it feels like there's another dimension happening, I am I ready. Let's get some flowers. Yeah. Just anywhere on the border. Anyway, I put it in the dirt, I carry them to another bed. You are the cutest. It's going to be beautiful. I mean, this is so fun. And it's insane how much food has kind of come out of this garden. I mean, this. Is this a perfection bed. It's beautiful. Literally. I saw a bed like this in. And the color diversity is just so fun. I know. In the. In the Chicago Botanic Garden, I saw a lettuce bed similar to this, but instead of the red, they had a purple. But these onion spikes, I mean, it's just like, we cut the little. Like, I'll go through and cut one little spike off of each one, like you can see here, and we then just chop them up. Oh, I love it. I mean, they're so perfect. Oh, there is. There's a carrot down there. Oh, wow. It's really long. Shocked it. That carrot is doing this much. That is a joystick. The whole life cycle. Wow, that is amazing. Look at that. I love the variety, like, the different lengths of time they grow, you know, like you do. Little tiny ones are in there happily. And then I thought, yeah. Ready, set, go. We got it. Are you so proud of that big onion? So pretty. That's a big one, huh? A huge one inside. What's the first way that you make the garden fit into a busy schedule? Honestly, the decision to tie in the irrigation, like, with my lawn irrigation, has been such a game changer because it just kind of maintains itself if I don't have a chance to get out here and water. So automate whatever you can. That's smart. Yeah. And then I try to. I mean, I'm out here quite a bit harvesting, and so when I'm out here, I can kind of look a little bit for trouble spots and address that if I need to. I tend to struggle with anxiety and worry. And I think that was something unexpected about gardening for me was just the peaceful, soothing nature of it. It was April. I was driving here. I was rushed, and so Busy. And you sent me a song. This song just brought the waterworks. It was so powerful. So tell us about the song. The song is called Gardening and I. I just tend to be kind of a worst case scenario. And what I found is like, I feel a sense of peace when I'm in the garden. So there's something just so feel therapeutic about that. Especially when, you know, we're inundated with the news cycle and there's like something new and scary today that wasn't there yesterday. The song talks about my act of resistance is gardening. So it's like an act of resistance against despair and hopelessness. It's planting our seeds in the ground, doing what we can, and hoping for something beautiful. And then something beautiful, beautiful does come every time. So you heard it from jj so she's got two kids, she runs an incredible business, she's a singer songwriter, she's a wife, she's a traveler, and she is a gardener. If you start gardening, like most people, you found yourself standing in the middle of the hardware store surrounded by pest sprays and fertilizers. And you probably found yourself wondering, do I really need all these things to become a gardener? The short answer, no. The longer answer, you only need those things if you're gardening the ordinary way. But the Five Minute Gardener shows you a different way to garden. In these pages, you'll learn how to set up your garden in such a way that protects your plants from pests and help them grow in a way that doesn't require the use of synthetic fertilizers. The Five Minute Gardener is written for you, someone who wants a natural and organic garden that lets you experience the magic and miracles of nature without the interruption of sprays and chemicals. With five minute tasks that help you plant and set up your garden organically, you'll know exactly how to harness the power of nature with every seed you grow. But the magic in Five Minute Gardener really comes to life when you enter the tending instructions in the middle of each and every season. Here you'll find small five minute tasks that help you create an organic garden free of pesticides and fertilizers that flourishes with a little bit of your help, five minutes at a time. This year, skip past the chemicals and grab your copy of Five Minute Gardener instead. Learn how to grow an organic garden five minutes at a time and grow a garden you love that also protects the perfection of nature. No matter where you live, no matter what you do, no matter how busy you are, you deserve a garden that you love. You are meant to live in sync with nature every day. Hearing the birds over your head, feeling the sun on your skin, and gathering a few things that you grew yourself to bring inside and make the most delicious, nutritious dishes. Living a garden centered life doesn't require a homestead or living off the grid. You just need five minutes a day. The Five Minute Gardener is your guide to fitting the garden garden into your busy life. With seasonal instructions so you always know what to do every month, week, day and hour. Even when you only have five minutes to spare. Gardening isn't just a hobby. And a garden centered life isn't just a fad, a diet, or a hack. It's a lifestyle. And the Five Minute Gardener shows you exactly how to make it happen. So that your days, your weeks and your seasons become a beautiful reflection of your the nature that surrounds you. Five minutes at a time. Hi, everybody, it's me, Sydney again. How are you doing? Are you guys having a really fun time? Can you rain down some hearts to show me how much fun you're having? Rain down some hearts. Go to that dashboard, click the heart. Everybody put your cameras on too, because Nicole's coming back. There. I see the hearts. Thank you so much. I love that. Love you all. You've been such a great audience. We're so excited to bring you to the fourth and final segment. I want to welcome again all of our new five Minute Gardener buyers. Can you give me a raise your hand or throw a plant back on the back wall with an emoji if you bought the five Minute Gardener. Oh, there we go. I love it. Thank you so much. You guys are awesome. I can't wait for you guys to dive into that book. All right, can we talk about that Organic pest Control Guide? How awesome is that? To learn that you can garden without chemicals and not fight against nature. You can work with nature instead of fighting against it. Right? It makes sense when you think about it. I know Nicole was saying she wanted you guys to stump her to prove she's not a genius, but I think that's pretty genius, don't you? Awesome. Okay, so if you haven't been able to claim the bonus, all of those bonuses, including the Organic Pest Control Guide, let's just do another run through of how to do that. Okay? So I'm going to ask my team again to throw up the sales page on there, please. And we'll just take you guys through this one last time because we want you to get those bonuses. They expire on Monday, so make sure you do this before you leave today. All right, click Order this book and unlock the bonuses. I'm gonna go on this side because the table's there. Okay. Order the book and unlock the bonuses. Click. It'll take you down here. Remember, if you've already bought the book, skip step one. Scroll down a little bit more. Enter your email right here. Click. Ok. It's gonna take you to another question. Like I think it's phone number and maybe your name. It'll take you like 15 seconds and then stay on that page and you'll see. Can we go over to the bonus confirmation page? Thank you. Thank you. You're going to then see this page. Thank you for ordering the Five Minute Gardener book. Here are all of your bonuses. So you'll download the planner, the plate planting course, the organic pest control guidebook, and then our last bonus, which we're going to dive into right when Nicole comes back out. Okay, so before I forget, I saw a really good question about the Five Minute Gardener. Is it really just five minutes a day? Yes, but let's put some emphasis on that. Five minutes a day, right? It's all about that habit stacking and consistency that Nicole talked about. So you build, build, build over time. Five minutes a day. It really does work. I am proof. I don't spend very much time in my garden, but I'm having the best time. And I grew so many radishes, I don't even know what to do with them. Okay, let's share some survey results from our last session, shall we? We asked you, what level of gardener are you? 39% of you. So the majority are getting better every season. I love that. What a perfect position for you guys to be in to learn from the five minute gardener. That's such a perfect position. 25% discovering my green thumb. Also perfect. I mean, this book is literally for any level. So all of you are going to get started. So much from it. 17% brand new and excited. Welcome, welcome, beginners. I love you. I was just a true beginner like a year and a half ago. 12% plant killers. I see you guys. I see all of you. For I thank you for being honest. That's awesome. And then 4%, pretty close to pro. We got some pros out there. All right. That is awesome. Okay, so we're going to queue to the back wall for the next survey. What will you eat every day from the garden, huh? Have you thought about it? Are you making a plan? Let's. Can we cue the dashboard up on the back wall so they can see the selections? Great. Thank you guys, what will you eat every day from the garden? Pick one of these options below. Drinks, teas and juices and smoothies. Breakfast, omelets and toasts, Lunch, salads and wraps and sandwiches, snacks, juices, and crudites. Crudites. What did I just say? Crudites. Oh, my God. I don't know. Crudite, Dinner, soup, and sautes and sauces. I mean, that all sounds really good to me. And Nicole's gonna dive into this in just a second and show you some of her favorites. But before we do that, let me share another five minute gardening tip, something that I love about being a five minute gardener. So let me tell you something. Let me tell you a little secret about Nicole, okay? I see her almost every day of the work week, right? And I see how she eats. And this lady is not eating everything from the garden. No. She still goes to the grocery store. Her fridge is packed with groceries just like us. But what she does do is prioritize a few things that she knows she wants to include as staples in her diet from the garden every single day. So for Nicole, I know it's like kale, Swiss chard, and herbs. And honestly, that's for me too. Herbs, Kale. And I also want to say, just because you're not growing all of the ingredients that you're eating in your garden, if you're taking a few kale leaves and putting them in a smoothie every morning, that is garden to table, you've done it. It doesn't have to be more complicated than that. You are literally supplementing your diet with something you grew yourself. And that's what this is all about. So before I bring Nicole back, how about we give away some tools? Yeah, give me a thumbs up if you think we should. And I do just want to say I know that there was some confusion about the giveaways and how to enter, but we entered you all in. Okay? So you're not missing anything. You're all entered to win these giveaways. Okay? Everybody is entered to win the grand prize, which is the 10k garden at the end. We'll be announcing that at the end of this session, but right now, let's give away some gardenary tools. Look at these beauties. I'm just gonna hold one while I read Yalls names. Okay, Here's a spade. Or I don't know the exact name, but it's a shovel, right? It's got measurements on it. Tool winners, Stacy, Allison. Woo hoo. Theresa, Martin. Yeah. Kim, Caesar. Brandi Wright, and Nadine Gosine, gosine, gosine. Let's do it one more time. Stacey, Allison, Theresa, Martin, Kim, Caesar, Brandi Wright, Nadine Gosane. You just won some gardenary tools. Congratulations. I can't wait for you guys to use these. Okay, now, without further ado, let's all take a collective deep breath and welcome back to our stage our star. Let's rain down some hearts behind me as she walks out. Okay. Sound like a plan. The force behind gardenary and the creator and author of the five minute Gardener method, Nicole Johncey Burke. Yeah, girl. Woohoo. It's time to eat, you guys. How are you doing? Good to see you. All right. It is time to harvest. You have heard it. Have you heard it enough already? Like how many times we are going to harvest? Harvesting is the thing. Did you hear Connie say that last time? She said the only thing I got to do more of next year year is just harvest more. So we're going to pull up my slides. I am going to talk you through my favorite five minute things. My real fast food. Let me read you this quick section. Pair of scissors in one hand and a bowl in the other. You step out the back door just as the sunlight starts to hit the edge of the driveway. There are a million things to do inside, but this has to be done right this minute. So this is not the line I wanted to read you because I already read you that line. There's a line in the book in another section that talks about my favorite practice of the day, which is coming in from a walk or a run and coming up to the driveway. And instead of going inside, to not go inside yet. That is the trick, y'. All. That is the trick of the five Minute Gardener is don't go inside yet. So I started this when I lived in Houston. I continued it in Chicago. I do it now in Nashville. When I'm coming inside from being outside, instead of going straight inside, I don't go inside yet. I go through the garden. So in those years when I would take a walk with my dogs or with my kids or even go on a run, do some kind of exercise, instead of coming right in and going inside, I go through the garden and I grab some things and that is the trick. I talk about this so much in the book and this is the way I want you to have this practice is just don't go inside yet. You can go inside. Just first, I need you to spend five minutes out there. This is Casey Means. Have y' all seen her? Right now, she is the author of Good Energy and her book has been on the New York Times best selling list for almost a year. She got to review my book. She said, to improve both human and planetary health, it is critical, critical that we become involved in how our food is grown. The five minute Gardener empowers readers with the tools and information to cultivate a garden, grow our own food, and transform our relationship with nature. All things which have a profound impact on our health, our communities, and the planet. Casey Means knows about energy. She is a medical professional. She is a doctor, a Stanford trained doctor. And she has been studying how we get good energy and it is from real fast food. So I am going to bring out my favorite gardeners in the world. And that is my girls, but also my hero, which is my mom. So come on out, Burke girls. And you guys are going to get to meet my inspiration in the garden, which is my mama. Hello, you guys. How's it going? It's great. So these girls have been watching while we've been going through today, and they're here to eat the teenager. You all have teenagers who like to eat. I had to share these photos of y'. All. This is. This is Carolyn back catching a beat from the garden. Elaine, she had to get a beat of her own. We also have this day. This was a day that Elaine and I got to pull a ton of carrots from the garden. This is Becca pulling up some mustards from the garden. Carolyn doing a big harvest with us. And then Becca, do you remember this friend of yours? Yes, I do. Tell us about this friend while I get the food ready. So she had just done a harvest, I think, and there was this really tall broccoli plant. And I was like, I'm going to make that my friend. So I carried it around the whole house. And eventually I was like, I went to sleep and I woke up the next morning and it was gone. And I asked around, I was like, where did it go? And nobody told me, but apparently somebody threw it away. Not your broccoli friend. But that was my favorite friend. So Rebecca, she. She went to sleep with her broccoli friend. She wanted to do everything with her broccoli friend until her broccoli friend didn't smell so good. But yeah, you know, you do this, you become a five minute gardener, and suddenly your kids, they make friends with broccoli. It's pretty cool. All right, we're going to do some tasting. I'm going to show you all some of my favorite things, and I'm going to make These people. Oh, wait. Try this food out before you do that. Yes, I have got the stuff. Survey results. Okay. From the one that y' all have been doing. Awesome. So for the what will you eat? Question, we have at the bottom, we have 1%. Snacks. Nobody wants snacks. 4% is for breakfast, omelets, and toast. 10% is drinks, which is my favorite. 34% is dinner. And then the winner, of course, is lunches, which includes salads, wraps, and sandwiches. Everybody wants a lunch, apparently. I had no idea. You guys don't want an omelette? Are you crazy? You're gonna want it after this. I love that. Nobody wants snacks either. Thanks for bringing those stats. Okay, so we're gonna talk about how we can make things from the garden. And I had this story I was gonna show you about my own journey with food. Maybe you've seen my story online. Over the last few months, I've gotten to tell it how I had a food addiction. I had a really unhealthy. I did not have a broccoli best friend. I don't know what happened, but I had a bad, bad relationship with food. And when I lived overseas in China, I got introduced to a new way of living, which is just eating a little bit of food that you pick on the regular every single day. And those two years I spent in China, they introduced me to a different way of living that I didn't know how to bring back back to the States. But when these girls convinced me to start a garden all those years ago, I was able to bring back the garden, bring back that experience from China here to America. And so that's why I've fallen in love with the garden. That's why I want everybody to garden, because it literally changed me from the inside out. You can look at me from 2003 to 2024, and I literally am a different person. And so much of that came from all of that experience living in an agrarian culture and then figuring out how to bring that here to the States. So that's what we're going to do today, is we're going to talk about how can we eat all this stuff that we're growing. And when you get my book today, you also get the kitchen garden to table course, which teaches you how to make all this stuff. So let's kick it off with some tea. My girls love some hot drinks. And I think they got it from. From me, and I think I got it from my mama. So this is my mom over here. Will you hand the mic to my mom? And Let her introduce herself. Hi, I'm Claudell Johny, the proud mother of Nicole. That's right. I have an older sister, too. So we just have a lot of women in our life. Yes, we do. I'm one of four girls. Yes, she's one of four girls. She had two girls. I have three girls and a son. So I'm going to let my mom try this today. Tea. It's going to be a little warm. Check it out and tell us what you think. Who else wants to try the tea? Okay, so I got some tea, and coffee drinkers love it. So this is a super easy herbal tea, you guys. All that I have here is dried lemon balm. Okay. So you just. You can grow so much lemon balm in your garden, it literally is non stop. You dry it, you stick it in this little container, pour some hot water over it, and voila, you have garden made tea that you grew yourself. And you can do this with any herb, any herb that you want to grow. All you got to do is pick it, dry it, pour some hot water over it, and you've made your own homemade tea. So are y' all going to skip Starbucks, Elaine? Yeah, she's not going to Starbucks anymore. She is just going to be drinking garden tea. All right, my next recipe that my girls know that I love is eggs. Yeah, I think I've turned you on to this recently. Yes, definitely. Yeah. Carolyn has actually started to make her own omelets when I'm not around. Yep. And she even made some with some spinach that. That we had in the winter garden just a few days ago. So do you want to try this out? This is a frittata. I'll hold your mic for. For you. So Becca is also my egg girl. And frittata. This is so easy to make. I have my omelette recipe here. But this frittata is so easy, you guys. It is a dozen eggs. It is kale, Swiss chard, and a little bit of cheese. And let's hear what they say. What do y' all think? That's really good. Really? Yeah. And this was made yesterday, you guys, I want you to see the thickness of this thing. So there's no crust. You can make this overnight. You can make it the night before. You're having guests over, you're serving your family and just heat it up very easily. The next day, they're eating it cold. Tell us the flavors. Tell us. So it kind of tastes like an omelette, honestly. But it's like, it's easier to eat. And especially since you can save it from days after it has. The cheese is super good in there and all the vegetables. It's so nutritious and also tastes really good. And Becca, you're a fan. It's good. She said it's good. She's almost done. We're going to let her finish. She's not going to be talking for a bit. She's going to be eating. So. I love eggs in the morning. It keeps me going. You may not be an egg fan, but I love getting some protein in. And y', all. Kale and Swiss chard are greens that grow almost year round. This is something I just make a staple for myself. A lot of eggs and some greens. And I feel like I'm slowly convincing my girls to do the same thing. Yep, yeah, yep. Fills you up, keeps you healthy. You're gonna love it. All right, next up, we have my baby. This is my smoothie. I love smoothies from the garden. I've been making smoothies since we lived in Houston. Yeah, my good friend taught me how to make smoothies. Jen from Simple Green Smoothies. And. And this is so simple. This is spinach from the garden mixed with some banana and some avocado. So you've got, like, the fat in there. I also put some lemon juice. So it's just spinach, banana, avocado for the fat to keep you going, and then a little bit of lemon for a little zing. So who wants to. Who volunteers? All right, Elaine, I'm going to hand this to you. I'll take your eggs. Becca. Becca, you want to keep. Keep going. She doesn't want to stop eating this egg, you guys. All right, I'm going to give one more person a little bit of smoothie and then, Elaine, take the mic. Tell us what you think. It tastes really good and it tastes really fresh. Even though I don't know if it's really fresh, but it almost just makes you feel healthy. Like when you're just drinking it, you feel healthy. She likes it. She feels healthy. So a green smoothie is a great thing to have mid morning morning. I also, if you don't like having something heavy in the morning, then a smoothie is a great way to get you going, get the juices flowing, literally. And you can grab those greens. You can use all kinds of greens as the base. You can use spinach, kale, Swiss chard, parsley is wonderful to put in a morning smoothie. What are we thinking, Carolyn? I. I agree with her. It's super fresh. And honestly, in Some of these, if. Especially if you add fruit and you. Especially if you don't love the taste of herbs or greens or anything, you can add fruit, and it almost, like, overwhelms it. So you get the benefit of eating greens if you don't like eating them. There you go. So just kind of fool yourself, right? I used to do this. Just a quick tip. If you've got someone young in your life, put blueberries in there. If they don't like the color green, just put blueberries in there. The whole thing will turn purple, and there'll be a ton of kale or spinach in there. They'll never know. They'll never know know, right? Yeah. Have I fooled you guys? A couple times. Except for the green, maybe. But they'll. They'll taste it, and they're like, mom, did you try to put some spinach or some kale in here? I'm like, I'm not saying anything. All right, let's move on to salad. You guys all said you want salads, wraps, sandwiches. I'm going to have to get on my sandwich game, right, guys? Yes. So this is one of my favorite salads. This is not from my garden. Okay. We got this from the grocery store. But cabbage. Napa cabbage is one of the easiest cabbages to grow. It grows really fast. Almost all of us can start it. You're going to put some mandarin oranges or some clementines on it. And then this is a super easy dressing. So this is going to be soy sauce, sesame oil, peanut butter, and honey. Soy sauce, sesame oil, peanut butter, and honey. Oh, my goodness, you guys. So you put this on, you're going to give it a little mix, and this is going to be a little bit messier, but I just want to show you how easy it is. So the dressing you can make in just a few minutes. I literally cut this stuff up while right after they did my makeup this morning, I mean, that's how easy it is. So I think we have a plate somewhere. Maybe we'll double up on our plates. We got our bowl there. So I want. You guys. I'm gonna make my mom try this. So my mom did this thing for me, you guys. She gave me a gift when I was growing up, and she said, nicole, you don't have to really cook a lot. You can just assemble food. And that was a gift. You know what I'm saying? Because as women, I don't know if y' all feel this way, but it's like, all the time, we're either buying Food. Putting away food, putting together food, cleaning up from food, or planning the next kind of food. We're gonna get going. Y' all feel that way? And so my mom said, you know, Colt, don't stress too much about it. Just assemble food rather than cooking so much. So we're going to see what she thinks about this salad. Now, it will taste better when you grow it yourself, but give a little bite. Tell us what you think. All right, we're waiting. It's dangerous to feed your mom cabbage. Oh, I love the peanut butter in the dressing. You like it? I don't know that that would have been my first choice, but that's good. Okay. And I love mandarin oranges. And in the winter, you know, it's nice to have a little variety on the green. So very good. Mimi likes it. We're good. Don't you love it when your mom says, that wouldn't have been my first choice. Choice. You know what I'm saying? That's just a common thing for moms to say. All right, so salads are one of my favorite things, and I have a lot of recipes for salads in the book Five Minute Gardener. And we also talk a ton about salads in that real kitchen garden to table course that you get for free. Oh, I don't need that. That goes to Rebecca. Thanks. All right, so let's move on to juices. Anybody ever made a juice from the garden before? Floor, raise your hand. We're going to talk about making juice. You do not have to have a juicer to do this. So this is carrot juice. This is simply carrots, ginger, apple, and a little bit of lemon. And you can just blend this up in any kind of blender. And I'm going to show you how. You just take cheesecloth and you just strain this and you drink it. It is so refreshing and so, so good. I talk. I have a recipe for this in the book, but I talk so much about the value of making drinks from the garden. So let me see if I can do this without making a mess. We're going to pour this in and see if I can strain it. So you can strain it in a cheesecloth. You can strain it in a. A strainer. Let's see if this works. Might take a little bit, but basically you pour it in, you grab this helps you save the pulp, and the pulp can be used for compost to feed some worms. You can use it in all different kind of ways. Thank you, Carolyn. So this might take a sec, but you can see how it works. I just wanted you to see the magic of it. So you strain it just like that, and voila. Without making too big of a mess, you have carrot juice. So Becca didn't get a smoothie. So you get the carrot juice. Check it out. Two mics. Here you go. Tell us what you think of the carrot juice. It kind of tastes like juice bar. It's really good. Juice bar. I took Becca to juice bar not too long ago, and somehow I walked out of there spending some $70. We went to get just a few things at this really cute juice bar, and when she told me $70, I was like, are you kidding me? So a little glass like that, you could spend eight, ten dollars at juice bar. Am I right? It was like, yeah, $10. It was crazy for this. Like, this much. Yeah. And do you think it's really good? You feel like you're. You can just. We can just have our own juice bar at home now. Yeah. Yeah. We don't have to spend. Spend $10. And, like, the veggies they had, they did not look fresh at all. So I saw them making it. Did not look fresh. This is good. All right, so you heard it. You can make your own juice any time of day, any way. If you have beets. I love doing beets for juice. I love doing kale and celery juice, and I love doing carrots. So now we're at the final course of the day, which is going to be our dinner. And I made this tomato soup for you guys. So my girls all eat this. I know. And we have this little addition we love to put on our tomato soup. So to make this, when you're in the throes of summer and you don't know what to do with all those tomatoes, all you gotta do is roast your tomatoes along with garlic, which you pick right around the same time as the tomatoes. You're going to roast it in the oven, and then you're just simply going to squeeze out that garlic. Garlic. And then, y', all. You don't even need, like, a immersion blender or anything like that. All you do is blend it in a blender. I literally blended this soup this morning in a Vitamix. So just like that, you pull your soup together. Boom. And. And you're ready for dinner. So anybody want to try this? Anybody want. I'll have some. Okay, I'm gonna have to hold your mics, I guess. You want some, mom, we gotta let Mimi test this out. And while they test it out. Well, first, let's see what they Say, so easy. And I can freeze my extra tomatoes from the garden. I can freeze my tomatoes left from tomato season. And then in the. When I, you know, when I'm having company and want to use really fresh, fresh ingredients, then you can cook these and use a immersion blender and add whatever herbs you like, mainly basil, onion, celery, and it just makes a wonderful warm dish. It's so good. Carolyn likes it, too. Yeah. I think this is one of my favorite dishes, especially in the winter. You can make it with a grilled cheese or anything like that. That. And it just pairs really well together, especially with. Especially if you have fresh tomatoes from your garden. It just really adds to it. All right. I love it. The last. The piece de resistance, you guys, is these little herb dippers. So this is one of my favorite things to treat my kids to is I put dried herbs in these little dishes. I put a little bit of olive oil in the dishes, and. And then I just put a little bit of sea salt right on top and put this at everybody's place. So I teach you so much about herbs in Five Minute Gardener, so that everyone can have a little spot like this every single day. And you just put it with a little side of bread and dip it in. This goes so nicely right alongside some soup. So anybody. Can I just feed. Feed you? Y' all two want to try it? I want to try it. Oh, my God. It's a little crazy. What do you think, Becca? Really good. All right, here we go. Dip. We're a family here. You know, we share things. What do we think? That's our favorite, right? Yeah. If we have bread, we have an herb dip, and it's just. It's just a burk requirement, don't you think? And it's so easy. So easy. All right, you guys, so of all these, tell me your favorite thing. If you had to pick, we heard what the survey said. But for the four of you, what would you pick? Carolyn, what would you pick? Well, I didn't try the salad, personally, but I do love peanut sauce, and I think it pairs really well with any kind of salad that you can make with everything that you have in your garden. But of the ones that I tried, I would say the frittata is my favorite. It has so many different flavors. Very easy. And you can use everything from your garden and just put it into an omelette or a frittata as well. I love it. Frittata. That's the word of 2025. How about you, Becca? Definitely. The juice, it was so good. Oh, I love it. You're gonna have the rest of this? I can. Yeah. Elaine. I would say my favorite was the smoothie, because it made me, like, feel the healthiest, and it was really good. Like, it wasn't just, like, bad, and it made you feel healthy. It was good. Good. Because most things. Most things that are healthy don't taste very good. Right. I love it. How about you, Mimi? Which one? Not necessarily. I think you acquire a taste for healthy. That's true, but. And as a family, as a mom, I think you have a lot. You have to continue to put good things in front of your family. Yeah. So what's your favorite? I love the soup. The soup? Yeah. All right. Well, you heard it from them. If I can get my girls to eat veggies, then you can get your people. You love to eat veggies. My mom got me to do it. Now I get to pass it on to them. And this is the next generation, right, guys? These are the ones who are going to bring the garden into the world in the years to come. And thank you ladies for coming and trying my food. Thank you for eating my food every day. Yes. All right, I love y'. All. I'll see you in just a second for the finale. All right, well, speaking of the garden, speaking of eating from the garden, we have a very special guest with us today, and this is one of my new garden BFFs. Her name is JJ Heller. Hello, my friend. So good to see you. You too. How are you doing? Are you staying warm in the snow? I. I am trying. It is a very cold, snowy day here in Tennessee. We need you to have one of those sage lattes right now. Oh, that's a great idea, because you got it right right away. Yes. Tell everybody who you are and what you do. Okay. I am J.J. heller, and I am a singer, songwriter, and a mom of two teenage girls. And I am a. Well, I was going to say aspiring gardener. I've been gardening for years now, but I feel like I'm learning more every year. Yeah. You are no longer aspiring. You are inspiring. You are getting people to garden. It's so awesome. So JJ Heller and I met virtually in 2020 because this woman started tagging me on Instagram, and I was like, immediate follow. Started listening to all your music. If you haven't heard heard JJ's songs, they are like lullabies. If you ever need to calm your nervous system, this is the woman to call. Go out to your garden and put on a JJ Heller playlist and you are going to feel amazing. So you started your garden in 2020, is that right? I started my good garden in 2020 attempts before then. Oh, really? I didn't know. I guess we've about talked. Talked about this, but I forgot. Well, yeah, I mean, I was thinking about it as I was preparing for this today. And my first attempt was actually about 15 years ago when I lived in Phoenix, Arizona, which is a rough place to start trying to garden. It is. But I was chatting with a neighbor and she wanted to start a garden as well. And so we had this idea of what if we do a garden together in her backyard? Which, like, our fences were back to back. So in order for me to get to the garden, I had to walk out my front door, all the way around, like, the corner of the block, and then go into her yard. Too hard. Needless to say, the garden did not flourish that time because it was too far and it was. It was too inconvenient. And then I moved to Tennessee and the weather was a little bit more forgiving, and I bought those, like, three tier garden setups from Amazon and. And it was much better. And I grew things and it was great, but it was kind of ugly. And my yard is very small, and so I just, if. If something was going to go in there, I wanted it to be beautiful. And that's when my friend told me about you. And I started to follow garden Gardenary on Instagram, and my mind was blown because not only did you give great garden tips, but the gardens that you installed were so beautiful and more part of the landscaping than like an eyesore. And I really was inspired by that. And so I. I checked out your book from the library. Yay. Go library. Yeah. I hired a friend to. To use the instructions in your first book to build a garden box. And we made it exactly to your specifications. And I bought a little trellis, an arbor to go between, and the tomatoes started growing on the trellis. And that's when I started to tag you, because I wanted to show you. Look what you have done. Like, look what you've been a part of creating. So fun. Yeah. Suddenly, y', all, this woman was in my feed with, like, the most gorgeous garden, and she's just, like, standing underneath this tomato arch. I was like, who is she? Oh, and she's a singer. Oh, I'm jealous. And then we got to meet together. In 2023, when I moved to Nashville, I reached out to you and I said, oh, hi, I'm in town. Can I come hang out with you. And we've gotten to start planting together, which has been amazing. So tell everybody using this gardenary method of planting your garden garden, what's one thing, one big takeaway that you've had over the years that we've gotten to do this? Okay. It's hard to pick just one, but the first thing that comes to mind. Well, I don't know. Okay. Two. Two. Two big things. One is just the intensive planting. I had no idea that you could cram that many plants into one space, and it actually helped them thrive even more. Not to mention it makes it look really pretty, too. So bonus. The second big thing is the soil is a big deal, which kind of seems obvious, but to me, I mean, when you said, like, we're just going to get this truckload of, like, mushroom compost, and then it's like, it kind of takes care of itself when it has the right food, so. Makes sense. I love it. Lots of plants and the soil. Those are two just such key things to take care of. I love that so much. Okay. In your life, you're a busy woman. You got girls, you got a husband, you got a house, you got a dog, you got a garden. How do you fit? Wait, do you have a cat, too? Well, yeah, I wasn't getting crazy. We gave my dog to my parents. Yeah, but you have a cat now, right? Yeah, we have two cats. Two cats. Two cats, two daughters. So how do you fit the garden into your life? When do you go out there? What do you do with it? Yeah, well, mostly, like, for. For me, I. I tend to take a little break during. During the winter and then just build up my excitement and energy for the spring and the summer. And I tend to go out, like, for a few minutes every day and just kind of check for pests and any signs of disease so I can take care of it before it becomes a big problem. And then Sundays are typically my day to go out in the morning and spend about an hour, mostly a lot of pruning, the. The tomatoes on the trellis. And it's like. It's kind of a reset for the garden, and it's a little bit of a reset for my sun soul as well. It's just so therapeutic. I love it. So Sunday is your day. That's right. That's very cool. So I love this thing that JJ's created is just like a cadence for herself where she knows when she's too busy, she knows when it won't work, but she's almost. It's almost like you've just put it into the calendar and everybody knows this is mom's time. She's going to be gone for a little bit. I think that's the best. And you created this latte this summer that I wanted you to tell everybody about. I fell in love with sage. And you've had so much sage in your garden and you created like the drink of my dreams this year. Well, okay, I can't take credit for it. What happened was I went to Phoenix to visit family and my brother in law took my husband and I to a coffee shop and he's like, you have to try this latte latte. And it was a brown sugar sage latte. And it was so good because it's just this like, hint of caramelly sweetness with this herby undertone. And I loved it. And so then I went home and I thought, I bet you I could make this at home. And so I just, I googled it and I found a recipe for simple syrup or sage simple syrup. And they used white sugar and I just subbed out for brown sugar. And then I started adding it to my lattes in the morning. And yeah, it's pretty life changing. You guys just Google simple sage or no sage simple syrup. That's hard to say. It's so good. So awesome. So sage, simple syrup. I get to garden with jj. But this year, something so special happened. I was on my way to her house and she sent me this link and she said, I wrote a song that I want you to hear. And I am not kidding, you guys. I'm driving down the road. I've got compost in the back of my car. I've got stacks and stacks of plants, seeds coming out of every part of this car. And I hit the link, turned on the volume full blast in my car. It was a spring day. Never forget it. The sun was out. And I started hearing JJ sing this song that she's about to sing for you. And tell, tell, I'm not exaggerating when I say I cried my eyes out. I cried all the way to JJ's house. When I got there, I ran out, gave her the biggest hug. So tell us what's behind why am I crying about this song that you wrote? What is what's behind this song? Which, by the way, was such a huge compliment because at that point, not very many people had heard that song yet it wasn't released. And so for you to cry was just like, okay, this song is meaningful. I'm feeling good about this because the song means so Much to me. I am a person who has struggled with anxiety for. For most of my Life. And the 24 hour news cycle is not a great thing for me. We just get bombarded with these messages every single day of, like, okay, now here's this new terrible thing to think about and worry about. And most of the time, it's like something so big that we have no power over it. We can't do anything about it. And so then, you know, it just keeps cycling over and over in my brain, and I just keep getting more and more anxious. And that's why I love gardening. Because when I start to get into that cycle, I can just walk outside, I can step away from the screens, I can feel the sun on my skin, I can put my hands in the dirt and literally watch beautiful things growing all around me. And it's kind of this mindset shift from, like, what terrible thing is about to happen to me, what thing is going to be taken away from me that I love versus, like, in the garden? It's like, what small good thing can I bring into the world? And so for me, gardening is an act of resistance against hopelessness and powerlessness, despair. Which might sound a little bit melodramatic, but that has been my experience. And so I wrote a song about it. It's not melodramatic at all. It's beautiful, and you guys are gonna love it. Jj, thank you for being with us here today. Without further ado, you have to hear this song in its entirety. I dare you not to cry. My active resistance is gardening. Let's kick it off. Thank you, jj, for being a gardener with us. I mean, am I right? Is that beautiful? I just walked into our garden that day, just bawling my eyes out. I was like, wow, this is so powerful. And, you know, it's like, like she said, you can watch the news, you can scroll, you can, you know, wake up and look at so many things or that you have no control over. You know, that, like, we can have hope for, we can wanna change, we can share the message, but there's just really not much we can do about so many of the things that are out there that we see every day. But there is this little thing that all of us can do each and every day, and that's just walking outside, right? It's just taking a seed and putting it in the ground. It's just picking a little piece of sage and coming inside and making a drink with it. It's sharing it with a neighbor. It's leaning over the Fence and, you know, giving a tomato or a squash or five squash, you know, it's, it's just these little moments in time. And I want you to look around at all of us here. There have been thousands of us here today. And I just, I see your faces, and I imagine all of the spots where you are, and you just think, like, what if we all did this right? When you're doing it, when it's just you, it feels really small. But when it's all, all of us together, it's really big. You know, that's one of my favorite quotes from Mother Teresa. You know, it's like small things. You know, it's small things that add up, and it really is these little five minutes. It has this cumulative effect. And, and I just, I, I, I yearn. I hope I live for all of you to have these little moments. So if you want to have some delicious things from the garden, sage latte included, I am including my kitchen garden to table course today. When you get my book, when you go to five minute gardenerbook.com, how many of you have gotten to log in and see your bonuses yet? Anybody seeing a few of them? Anybody use their planner today? As we planned out the garden, are y' all feeling good? On a scale of 1 to 10, how ready are you? You for 20, 25? Destiny is like, oh, yes. I love it. So if you go to five Minute Gardener book dot com, you can get your bonuses. As soon as you put in your order number for your book, you get them all. All right, we got a seven planner ready for the seeds. Great life today. Well, when you sign up today, you're also going to get the kitchen garden to table course. Plus you get all these other amazing bonuses like the planner, the organic pest control guidebook, and my favorite, the plate planting method. Because we just want to harvest right? That's all we want to do. So this is the day. Today is the day to get this book, Five Minute Gardener. I want to thank you so much for spending this day with me. It has been, honestly, a day of a dream come true for me. Like I told y', all, when I started gardening, I loved it so much, changed my life, and I wanted to turn it into a business to share with other people. People. And as soon as I did that, y', all, as soon as I saw one other person catch on to my way of gardening and have success, I was like, that's it. The whole world. I need the whole world to do this. And so as I've watched my girls and My son grow up that number 2030. That year, 2030 keeps just kind of repeating in my mind, kind of haunting me. You know, that my kids, our kids, this generation, they're growing up fast. And we have got five years before 2030. And how amazing if we all together could do these little acts every day, five minutes at a time, change our lives, and then change our neighborhoods, our communities, and our cities. All right, you guys, it is time. It is a big time. Now. We're going to be giving some stuff away. All right, so the first thing we're gonna do is give some raised beds away, and then we have our grand prize winner. I love this. Asia said, I want to be the mama, the aunt, the grandma, the youngins remember snapping beans with and picking tomatoes. I love that. Asia, she said, I'm so excited, motivated, and a little scared all in one big emotion. Absolutely. That's just. Just life, right? All the good things together. I love you. I love this. I followed Nicole for four years. I had health issues. Struck right after finding you preventing me from garden. But this is the year to start my garden. That's right. I love that. Today has been amazing. My dino kale is begging to be harvested today. I love that. Lisa. All right, so we're going to have the whole team come out, and we're going to be announcing our grand prize giveaway. First, I want to tell you guys, hello. We got Latasha, we got Sydney, we got my girls, we've got my mom. Everybody's here. And we are going to. We're going to announce. We're going to announce our winner. So first we have our raised bed winners, and we've got April Ehrlich, Amy Delou, Susan Blowy, Jillian. Or Gillian Davidson and Julie Shearer. So all five of you guys are getting a raised bed. A gardenary raised bed. You can email us@helloardenary.com and we're going to get these raised beds to you. We've got April Ehrlich, Amy Delou, Susan Blowy, Gillian Davidson, and Julie Shearer. So any. Any last words before we announce this grand prize winner? Oh, gosh. Harvest. Huh? Harvest. Harvest. Always. Let's talk. Who says harvest? Any last words? Buy the book, says Elaine. She says, get that book. Anybody else? Get a sprouter. It's so cold outside. Get a sprouter. Remember, that was my first five Minute Gardener tip. I love the sprouter. That's right. Get a sprouter. Get the book. You can go to five Minute Gardener book dot com. You could scan this Code. And as soon as you do, y' all, don't forget to go get those bonuses, because they really will help you take the book to the next level. All right, without further ado, if I can get to the slide. Maybe it doesn't have a slide, but we're giving away an amazing garden to one amazing gardener. This is four gardenary cedar beds, two arch trellises. We love our trellises. Yes, we do. These trellises right here, they provide so much more fun. You can put the picture of the giveaway on the back. That be awesome. I don't know if you can do it. If you can't, it's okay. Let's see if it got. Do I have it? No, I don't have it. It's okay. This amazing garden is coming your way, and this is coming, too. Can we get a drum roll? Drum roll. Pam beasley. Do we see Pam Beasley? Pam Beasley. You're getting a really big garden, girl. I see her. There she is. Pam Beasley, We got a garden coming your way. I hope you're ready. You're gonna be taking it to the next level. If you guys. If you guys need anything to make your garden happen, you're gonna get all the instruction inside. Some of my other books. Kitchen garden, revival. Leaves, roots, and fruit. And then as soon as you get that garden set up, this is the book for you, the Five Minute Gardener. Sydney's helping me out. It has meant the world to me to get to hang out with you today, to get to bring my girls, my mom, my team, women that I've gotten to work with for years, and then for you to get to meet some of our favorites, like Ellie Holcomb, J.J. heller, Connie and Susie. It was just such a special day, and I will never forget it. And I hope that you will raise your right hand. Your five minute hand with me. And let's do this one last time. Are you ready? Yes. 20, 25. 20, 20, 25. Will be my best year ever. Will be my best year ever. Because I will spin. Because I will spend five minutes in the garden. Five minutes in the garden. Every day. Every day. Y' all heard my girls, right? So I'm putting them to work. I now. I now have it on tape. Right? All right, you guys, let's go make this year amazing. It only takes five minutes. Thank you for being here for Garden in five live. We love you. We'll see you in the garden. Go get the book. Five minute gardener book. Let me see. IPS know something really important. Okay, so you guys, VIPs were sticking around for the Q A. If you upgraded to a VIP today, you're gonna need to leave the Zoom room and then go back into the VIP room. Okay? But if you're already in the VIP room, if your zoom says one, you're in room one, you're good. You can just stick around. So, again, if you upgraded today, exit the Zoom and go to your dashboard and go to the VIP link. Okay. All right, we're gonna take a five minute break. We'll be right back for the VIPs. Everybody else will see you soon. We'll see you in the garden. Love you. Love you. Get that book. Today's the day. I don't know how high we got on Amazon, but you help me. Significant. 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