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 we're doing another topic that's a little bit different, well maybe it's very different

than anything we've talked about before.

And this is kind of a quick shift in the lineup, you know, I've told you in the past we have

a pretty tight editorial calendar and everything is kind of mapped out well in advance.

But sometimes you never know when you need to interrupt one thing for another.

And let's just say I had a series of bad luck events this weekend that led us to internally

discuss amongst the team the thought that maybe we ought to have a podcast around safety

precautions and safety tips and things that gardeners do that maybe we shouldn't be doing

or that lead to dumb mistakes and maybe trips to the emergency room.

So that's kind of a tip of the hand to some of what we wanted to talk to you about that

happened to me this weekend and how you might be able to relate to it or how maybe we can

help you not relate to it by circumventing some unfortunate events that just happen sometimes

through trying to take shortcuts that just never really pay off in the long run.

So that's what we're doing today we're going to talk about some real life applications

of things that you can do that are practical to keep you safe out there because gardeners

let's face it you know we're working around some sharp tools and we're busy all the time

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