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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's been a very busy summer here for me in the Atlanta, Georgia area.

Work is crazy, trying to navigate around all the twists and turns of the COVID pandemic,

while attempting to film an entire season, season 11, that is, of our television series

growing in a greener world.

And then, thanks to plenty of late afternoon thunderstorms, a garden that has exploded

with so many ripe vegetables, not to mention, not to mention more weeds that I can keep

up with.

So I am definitely feeling a bit of garden overwhelmed again.

And based on the number of people I see mentioning that on our various social media

channels, many of you are too, which in a way seems a little odd this year of all years,

when we supposedly have more time at home and in the garden than ever before, yet we're

still feeling that sense of how to stay ahead of it all, but I get it.

And while I figured out a lot of ways to minimize that feeling over the years, it still creeps

up from time to time.

And the middle of the summer, like right now, is always when I seem to feel at the most,

which is why almost exactly two years ago, I called upon one of my favorite gardening

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