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, this is Joe Lampel, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner

Show.

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All right, if you're listening to this podcast right now, around the time of its release,

I know you are more than ready for an awesome gardening season in 2021.

And we're not going to reflect back on 2020 this year, like we typically do at the end

of the year, we kind of have a look back episode on the aha moments, but we've kind of already

done that about a month or six weeks ago.

But I am so excited like many of you for what's ahead in 2021, because we know as gardeners

we're so optimistic just by nature.

But after having gone through a year like we've been through this year, we're more optimistic

than ever because, you know, it's got to be better than this, right?

So bring on 2021 for sure, but something I'm not sure that I mentioned in the recap

of 2020 about some of the cool things that happened or the big aha's, but I was thinking

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