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, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner Show.

I've picked a classic for you this week because it is the season. Believe it or not,

even though we are technically still in July when I record this,

it's time to be thinking about your cool season vegetable garden. Yes, your fall edible garden.

And that will make a whole lot more sense as you listen through this episode today,

as I was queuing this all up, planning ahead, getting this one slotted for this week.

Ironically, I saw an Instagram post that I was tagged in from Brianna Evans on Instagram at

beautifully bemused. And she had posted about the fact that she just got through planting her

fall seeds here in the middle of July, and that they were sprouting, and how much she enjoyed

and relied on this podcast episode, which is an encore. Actually, it's a hybrid encore,

because a lot of the information that you're about to hear is going to be newly inserted

in addition to what I recorded two years ago in this last aired. So consider this a semi-new

podcast and well worth a listen, even if you heard it before. But anyway, shout out to Brianna Evans,

and thanks for the good words about this episode. So even if you've heard this one before,

when it first aired, it's well worth hearing again as we head into September in the very near future.

Can you believe it? And if you are growing your own food, even a little bit, but you're not

growing cool season crops like lettuce and spinach and kale and broccoli, just to name a few,

you are missing out on the best part of vegetable gardening, I think at least. So nearly

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