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.

Well, today we're back for another Geek Out session with a discussion around the basics

of plant diseases and beyond.

My main objective of this podcast is for all of us to just have a better fundamental understanding

of some plant disease basics, like how various plant diseases even get into our gardens

in the first place, and then how to reduce or minimize their presence in our garden,

and then most of all managing those diseases once they arrive and affect our plants.

And mixed in all along the way are some great examples and a lot more conversation beyond

the basics.

So there's something here in this podcast for every Gardner at every level, and no matter

what you're growing.

And I have just the person to keep this conversation fascinating and fun, and that is Dr.

Janet Beckerman.

She's the lead botany and plant pathology professor at Purdue University, so she wears a lot

of hat.

She says very busy.

And along with her many professorship duties at Purdue, she and her team just launched

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