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

So here I sit on New Year's Day, excited to have this conversation with you about why when you're a gardener, life is never boring.

And I started thinking about this a lot after a month ago, I was interviewing Dr.

Alan Armitage on episode 447. If you want to go back and check this one out, if you haven't heard it.

But we had a great conversation. He is a retired professor emeritus at the University of Georgia

and a widely respected horticulturist. But he loves gardening too, and he's been doing it

for over four decades. But during our casual conversation, he was just talking about a recent book

that he had written called The Common Sense Gardner. And as sophisticated as he is, and with all the many

academic related and

industry-related books that he's written, I think it's 16 currently, he said, you know,

the great thing about gardening is just never boring. He gave a few examples, but one of the ones

he said that just really resonated with me particularly was, you know,

in the fall when you're planting your daffodil bulbs, you are looking forward to the springtime

when you know your one-time efforts from the fall are going to give you years of joy in the following

springs. And I can relate to that because I've done that. And I'm looking forward to my early spring flowering bulb lawn from all of the things that I've planted.

And some other things we'll talk about in a minute.

But anyway, that got me thinking, wow, you know, for anybody that is a gardener that is feeling a little bored at any time of the year, they're missing opportunities.

And I wanted to just nudge you a little bit to be thinking about this because we're really

fortunate to be gardeners and never be bored or the potential to never be bored.

And one other little story I want to share at this point before I get into specifics

because what I've done is I've chronicled a typical year for me. And I think this will apply to most

of you. And I understand in many cases it's region specific. But I think you'll be able to

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