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, we're coming into the holidays.

It's the week of Christmas as I record this, and our plans for this week and next week

were to just kind of kick back and recharge our batteries.

Take a break from the podcast, send you a holiday message, something very short and sweet,

but honestly without much substance, and that wasn't sitting well with me.

I just didn't want to give you something without some really good content.

And right now we are in a really good discussion around planning for our seed buying, educating

ourselves on what to look for when we're shopping for our seeds, how to make the right

decisions on what to buy and what not to buy because we may already have those seeds and

we didn't even know it, or if we did have those in seed packs from prior seasons, are

they still even good?

So we've been talking about that a lot lately.

And last week my podcast episode was called the informed seed shopper, what to know before

you buy to give you information on the various ways that you can get seeds, the differences

in the types of companies that are out there, the big ones, the small ones, the ones in

between the certified organic companies, and what are those differences?

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