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 Lample.

Hi everybody, this is Joe Lample, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe

Gardner Show.

Well, it's another geek alert, warning for this podcast.

We're talking about roots, understanding roots, demystifying roots of all things.

This is a conversation that I've wanted to have for a long time.

I knew who I wanted to converse with about this, and that is Robert Corrick.

Robert is a guy that's been in the industry forever, and thankfully he had a fascination

with roots a long time ago, going back into the late 70s.

When he realized that, you know, there were some questions that weren't being answered

about roots, and so he took it upon himself to do the research.

And boy did he ever.

And since then, he's acquired a lot of knowledge and written a couple books on it, and I have

to say I have both his books, roots demystified, and understanding roots.

And they're not sexy books because they're not a lot of it.

There's no color pictures in here, but you don't need it because just the drawings themselves

are fascinating when you see the different formations and how different trees and shrubs

do what they do to make their root systems work the best for them.

But we're going to talk about a lot of that stuff today, and I've just finished that

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