Welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey With in your backyard garden, and more importantly, I believe what it doesn't tell how you can use it in your backyard garden,

and more importantly, I believe what it doesn't tell you.

And let me tell you, this one thing causes such confusion

that I felt like I needed to devote an episode to this topic

to help you guys understand the purpose of a garden zone

and more importantly, like I said, what it's not made to do.

But first, let me just say I am so glad you're here with me today.

If you are new here to the Beginners Garden podcast, welcome.

And if you're a regular listener, you know that during the summer and the fall,

I scale back to episodes every other week. And I have to say,

I miss being with you when I skip a week. But in the midst of gardening season and with my kids

being home in the summer, it's just what works best for my schedule for sure. But it also gives me a chance

to just kind of sit back and listen to you guys.

And I listen a lot to what you're saying in my Facebook group,

the Beginners Garden Shortcut Facebook group,

which you can join anytime for free.

I'll tell you I am learning so much from you guys

and challenges that you guys have and things that you have questions about that maybe I haven't

thought of or maybe I thought of it at the very beginning but I had forgotten that I had

struggled with that one thing and that's honestly what has made me choose this topic today to

talk about. I've seen a lot of you guys in the group asking questions, what is my

zone? I've had a couple of people email me that. How do I know what my zone is? And I find it

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