Welcome to this episode of the Beginners Garden podcast, number 200. Can you believe it? I certainly can't.

When I first started this podcast in 2017, I really didn't know what I was getting into. I started it at the suggestion of a friend.

We were actually writing Bible studies and blogs on our faith and she recognized how passionate I was

about gardening and I was doing a little bit of garden blogging at the time and she encouraged me to

start a podcast and I thought you know I love teaching I love gardening I love listening to podcasts

so why not and I think even more than that,

I don't know if you're like this, but when I get really excited about something, I want everybody to know.

And I want everybody to get excited with me. I can get a little kind of dogmatic about it.

Like I really do think everyone should garden. I don't think

that there are a lot of excuses that really fly for me. I just think everyone should do it. And so,

yeah, that's maybe a little bit extreme, but at least I recognize it. But even more importantly,

I have been so encouraged by so many of you who have listened over the years, or maybe you're a new listener, and I've been encouraged by hearing your stories of your garden journeys.

And honestly, that has been the most inspiring to me.

That's why I've shown up week after week is because I want you to fall in love with and enjoy and learn to

expand and grow your garden as much as I have over the past nine seasons. With that in mind,

this episode is going to be special. It's actually an episode where you're going to get to hear

from gardeners give their advice.

And most of them are beginning gardeners.

In fact, all of them are current students of one or more of my online courses, either Dream to Garden,

which is my online course on garden planning.

I usually really focus on it at the beginning of the gardening season.

It really takes you to planning your entire season's garden. So that's why I really focus on it then.

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