You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover

everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required.

And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe Behind Joe Gardner,

Joe Lampel.

Hey everybody, it's Joe Lampel, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and thanks for listening

today to the Joe Gardner Show.

You know, a lot of you turned to this podcast for some of your gardening education, at

least, and I really appreciate that.

I also love to listen to podcasts as a major resource for learning from many areas of my

personal and professional life, but where do I turn for keeping my soul sharpened when

it comes to gardening and horticultural information, so that I can continue to not only serve you,

my audience and my community, but also stay sharp professionally for the television

show and all of the other things that I do related to this profession, this vocation

and an abocation around gardening, well, to start I would say that I have been a student

of life all my life, especially around gardening, and I've been doing it pretty much since

I could walk.

Well, probably about eight years old, so always, always learning through experience.

I feel like there's no better way to learn, and I'm sure that many of you agree with that.

But beyond that, there's formal education, and there's lots of online information these

days.

We all know that.

In fact, there's almost too much, and you never quite know if the source of that information

...