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.

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Today we're talking about essential garden tools, basically what I can't do without, and

the ones that I think are at the top of their category for performance and value.

But what I am including today versus what I'm not including, first of all, like we could

spend hours and hours on different types of tools and different categories of that.

But for today, I really want to focus on kind of the things is I'm heading outside.

What am I grabbing?

What do I want to have on my body and what are the most common task and chores and things

that I'm doing out in the garden, more often than anything else in the favorite tools

that go along with tackling those tasks as quickly as easily and as productively as possible

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