Hi, everybody.

It's Joe Lample, the Joe behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner show.

Two words that many of you love to hear, geek alert, and that is certainly appropriate

for this episode because we're talking to one of our favorite guests.

We've had them on quite a few times.

I'm talking about Robert Pavlos.

He's got a new book out.

He seems to be cranking out several books a year and lucky for us because this one is called

Microbe Science for Gardners, Secrets to Better Plant Health.

And so today, no surprise.

We are going to talk about this book with Robert and get into some, not all, of the geeky

interesting information about soil microbes and just go at it.

Just kind of a free form conversation.

I do have an outline for it, but with Robert, as he talks, I have so many questions and

they just come out in the moment.

So that's kind of what this is, and we're going to probably have a part two here because

we did not get to cover nearly enough of the information that I had on my outline for today

and he agreed to come back.

So for what it's worth, there's a good chance we're going to have a part two to this episode.

Now if you don't know Robert, if you're new to the podcast, Robert has got a chemistry

background.

He's really good with the science of gardening and everything about what goes into the soil.

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