422-Gardening Through Changing Life Circumstances, with Craig LeHouiller
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Joe Lamp'l
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🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
How much of our time and focus we can spend on gardening can shift overnight as we experience a major life change. My Growing Epic Tomatoes course co-leader Craig LeHouiller can speak to that fact as this season he began juggling being a first-time, very involved grandfather and keeping up with his garden.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. This is Joe Lampal, the Joe behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner show. |
| 0:06.1 | Today, I'm joined once again by one of our most popular and most respected guest, Craig LaHulier. |
| 0:13.0 | If you've listened to this show for a while, you already know Craig well. |
| 0:16.9 | He's the author of Epic Tomatoes, one of the most influential books for tomato lovers everywhere, |
| 0:22.7 | and growing vegetables and straw bales. He's also the tomato advisor for Seed Savers Exchange, |
| 0:28.7 | co-leader of the Dwarf Tomato Project, and my teaching partner in the Online Guardian Academy |
| 0:33.8 | course, Growing Epic Tomatoes. Craig is truly one of the most trusted voices in the tomato growing world, and when I say |
| 0:41.7 | world, I mean that literally. |
| 0:43.9 | Today, Craig is back with a new wisdom-rich layer to add to our growing archive of engaging |
| 0:49.7 | conversations. |
| 0:51.1 | This time, it's a thoughtful, honest reflection about what it means to keep |
| 0:55.9 | gardening through life's changing seasons, both literally and figuratively. This year, Craig became a |
| 1:02.9 | first-time hands-on grandparent, and for the first time in decades, his garden took a bit of a |
| 1:08.7 | back seat, if you can believe it, but you wouldn't know it by looking at his plants. |
| 1:13.4 | And we'll talk about that, along with his new experiments growing corn in straw bales, what he's rethinking about fertilization and how his perspective on gardening has evolved after more than 40 years in the soil. |
| 1:26.5 | We'll also dig into some big picture questions, |
| 1:29.3 | like why we garden in the first place, how changing weather patterns and plant diseases are |
| 1:34.1 | forcing us to adapt, and why growing food, even imperfectly, is still one of the most powerful |
| 1:39.9 | ways to connect with the world around us. This episode is full of hard-earned wisdom, practical insights, |
| 1:46.5 | and plenty of inspiration for anyone who's ever had to juggle a garden with the rest of life. |
| 1:51.8 | So stay with us and we'll get into my conversation with Craig LaHulier in just a moment. |
| 1:57.2 | For as long as I've been a gardener as my passion and my profession, I've been a fan and a loyal user of DRAM products. |
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