You're listening to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net,

and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the tools they need to grow a rewarding, productive garden. Hi friends and welcome back to the Beginners Garden podcast. In today's episode, we're going to be talking

all about green beans, which is one of my favorite subjects to

talk about. But before we get started, I have to apologize to my regular listeners. I don't know if

you can tell, but I have been struggling with my voice. The last week or so, I've been having the

hardest time. I'm guessing it's allergies because I haven't been sick.

Over the weekend, my family and I took a little weekend getaway to Petty Jean Mountain,

which is not far from our home, and we had the greatest time. It was beautiful weather.

I just love April. It's glorious. But we were at the top of this mountain and where we were camping is full of pine

trees. We really hadn't noticed the pollen being a big deal until we got up there. And number one,

everything was yellow. And then we were sitting in our chairs one day right in front of the campfire

and it was still light. And I told my husband that when I was looking out toward the horizon, it just seemed hazy,

almost like cloudy, smoky, but it didn't really look smoky necessarily.

It was just kind of a really weird thing.

And he noticed it too.

And the next thing we knew, a big gust of wind picked up and you could see at the tops of those trees this

sheet of yellow come down it was almost like it was snowing pollen it was crazy it was everywhere

so that's all I can think of is that my voice my throat has just had enough of all the springtime

pollen and that's why my voice

is just really struggling right now. So I have to apologize and I hope I can get through this

episode. I definitely want to get this out to you because so many of you guys are like me and

you are getting ready to or maybe already have started planting your green beans.

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