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 Lample.

Hi everybody, this is Joe Lample, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe

Gardner Show.

Well, it doesn't matter whether you're a brand new gardener or somebody that's been

doing it for decades, like me, it never hurts to go back to the fundamentals.

Those basics of gardening that help us understand the wise behind the house and give us the

confidence we need to apply what we know or what we think we know through intuition,

which we don't give ourselves enough credit for sometimes, to help nurture those plants

along.

And when you think about it, the plants don't really need us for all that much.

They are programmed.

They have the DNA in them to do what they need to do, to flower and fruit and survive.

And sometimes we come along and we either love them to death and we over water them or

we put too much something on them like fertilizer and we end up killing them or setting them

back when really all we need to do is just be good stewards and let them do what they

do with just a little care from us.

But today I wanted to talk to Darryl Byers, Darryl has a great background.

He has 25 years experience as an estate gardener and as a private gardener all over the Northeast

and even down in Atlanta for a stent.

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