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, it's Joe Lample and welcome to the Joe Gardner Show.

You know we've been on a kick here lately, talking a lot about the importance of having

more native flowers in and around your garden and landscape.

And in fact, the past four episodes have had a direct relationship to that subject,

or at least an underlying theme.

So today, I want to keep that streak going because if you want to add more native flowers

to your garden too, this is the time of year for sewing a lot of those seeds on your beds.

So they will have the time to do what they need to do for germination next spring.

For me, I'm all in on starting more native flower seeds now more than ever, as I can

vert a large open area on a hill behind my vegetable garden to as much meadow as I can

fit in there.

It's a project that I've wanted to do for a long time, but I'm finally making the plans

and taking the steps to make that happen.

And one of my handbooks for doing it right is the subject of our podcast episode today.

It's a book I came across recently, Lawns and Tomatoes, growing a regenerative landscape

by Owen Wormser.

And I really like it.

Owen has a really good story of his connection to the natural world because he was raised

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