Hi, everybody. This is Joe Lampel, the Joe behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe

Gardner show. Today's episode is on cool season plant care. That's going to include plants that are

not winter hardy that live outside for the rest of the year, but we need to bring them in to keep

them safe and protected during the coldest months, where if we didn't, they wouldn't survive

outside. And we'll also be talking about house plants, too, that live full time indoors,

but as the days get shorter and temperatures change and the angle of the sun changes, they

respond to that. So there are a few things that we need to change up and how we care for them and how we respond

personally as well. So you'll learn about that in this conversation. So this is not going to be

your basic house plant care podcast where you're just checking off the steps that you've probably

heard multiple times. Yes, it will include some of those, but I want to try to go

deeper wherever I can to give you the science behind how the plants are responding to the change

in environmental conditions and why we need to pay attention to that and then change how we take

care of those plants as well during that same time period. So it's a big shift for the plants and for us and how we take care of those plants as well during that same time period. So it's a big shift

for the plants and for us and how we tend to naturally want to care for those plants.

Well, we get a break during the colder months too. So we'll talk about that. And I also want to

thank Amy Prentice once again for recommending this episode. We have a good editorial calendar for our podcast schedule that goes

out for months in advance on what we're going to be recording and who we're going to be talking

to and the topics, of course, but sometimes we make adjustments on the fly and adjust where

a podcast episode is going to be. And this one, we just tweaked it, but we talked about how this

would be a good one to do in a slightly different way. So that's what you're in store for this time.

And I'll say that because of the science that I wanted to add in here, we'll qualify this one

for a geek alert as well. So I can give you some information that you'll hear here that

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