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.

Hi everybody, it's Joe Lampel, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner

Show.

Today I want to talk to you about something very timely.

Now usually we stick to our editorial calendar, we have our shows mapped out for well into

the future, but then every now and then, like today, I feel the need and the urge to talk

about what's happening in real time.

Now I'm in Atlanta, Georgia, that's zone 7b.

So we're in the south of the United States.

So many of you listening to me who live in the US, live north of me, and your gardening

season is a little bit behind mine.

So the things that I share with you that I'm doing right now in real time are things

that you'll be doing or should be doing in the upcoming weeks.

So I'm giving you sort of a heads up on what to expect and what you need to do coming

up.

And that's why I think today, and other times during the year, we'll divert from that

schedule and talk about some of these things.

And today as I look outside onto my soon to be planted out spring slash summer garden,

all of my seedlings that are out there on a table, as we speak, hardening off, soaking

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