432-Taking Stock of the Garden in Late Summer-Encore Presentation

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Joe Lamp'l

Hobbies, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Later summer is a test for any gardener. Heat, humidity and relentless pests push both plants and gardeners to their limits. In my garden, some crops flourish despite the challenges, while others demand constant attention — from cherry tomatoes still producing in late August to squash battling bugs on vertical trellises. In this week’s encore presentation, I am resharing my August 2024 audio journal, which I recorded in my garden so I could walk you through everything happening with my plants in late summer and the valuable lessons I learned.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. It's Joe. I'm on vacation this week, but I wanted you to listen to this episode. It's timely and timeless. It's a field recording from my garden, the entire episode. And I don't do that very often, but I did it last year, about this time last year, and a lot of you commented on how much you enjoyed it. And you felt
0:22.7	like you were out in the garden with me. So I think this one will be a good re-listen if you've
0:27.1	heard it before. But if you have it, I think it'll be a treat for you. So enjoy and I'll see you
0:32.5	back here next week. Hi, everybody. It's Joe Lampil, the Joe behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner show.
0:40.6	Today's episode is one I really enjoyed putting together for you. It's also unique in the format used for
0:46.2	this one. First, it's a solo episode with just me. That's not so unique, but this is only the third time
0:53.2	out of a total catalog of episodes, currently
0:55.7	379, where the recording takes place entirely from my garden. The two other times I did this,
1:02.0	we got a lot of great feedback. And listeners really liked the change from inside to outside,
1:07.0	and they especially liked that although they couldn't see what I was doing and talking about,
1:11.8	they almost felt like they were there.
1:14.2	So today's format is similar, and I hope you get the same feeling this time.
1:18.1	In today's episode, we walk around the garden to assess the current state of the vegetable plants
1:23.2	and flowers, talk about some of the challenges that are hard to manage, and discuss things that
1:28.3	have gone very well, too. I'll also take you up the hill to my small nursery area next
1:33.5	to my greenhouse, and I'll update you on my fall seed sewing and everything else I'm growing
1:38.6	to plant out in my cool season garden. Plus, I have some other garden-related activities that I've
1:43.6	been working on this
1:44.4	month that I'm really excited about, and we'll touch on that too. So let's get started and head out
1:49.5	to the garden for this week's episode. Larry the Garden Cat, and I will meet you right back here
1:53.9	after these important messages from our sponsors for today's episode. The Ultimate Gardening Sheath
1:58.8	and Malorganite. When I co-created the Ultimate
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