Well, hey you guys and welcome back to the podcast. As I'm sitting here, it's about mid-morning and I've

already spent the first, what, three hours or so of my day in the garden. And I have my second cup of

coffee. The first one was, of course, before I went out into the garden. And now I get to chat with you.

We are in the middle of July. And this is the time of year that sometimes it can

get a little bit discouraging, especially as we go out into our garden and we notice that something

just doesn't seem right with one or more of our plants. And whether we're beginners or not,

if we don't know precisely what the problem is, it can cause a

little bit of a panic. And the reason why I wanted to bring this conversation to you today is because

it seems like I get several DMs a day in Instagram asking, do you know what's wrong with my

plant? And I'll get pictures or videos or descriptions or something

like that. And sometimes I can help if I've seen that before personally or if I can just

look at something and maybe, you know, narrow down the options. But a lot of the times I really

don't feel like I can make a good judgment call. Part of that is because

I don't have a horticulture background. I didn't go to college for this. Everything that I've learned

has been from reading and experience over the last 10 years. And while that is a decent amount of

experience, there's probably more that I don't know than what I do.

And the truth is, if I haven't seen it in my garden, I probably don't have a good understanding of it.

And that's hard for me because when someone wants to know what's wrong with their plant, I want to

help. Sometimes I'm even tempted to throw out an idea that may or may not be the case.

And that's really hard for me too because I don't want to be wrong and I don't want to steer

anyone in the wrong direction. But there are some things that I wish that I could take the time

to say when I get those messages. And so I thought, you know what, let's just do this on the

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