You're listening to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehe with Journey Withjil.net,

and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the episode is going to be a very practical

one, but also a fun one as we get ready to head into the holiday season. And a lot of you

guys like me are in the market for Christmas ideas for people that we know and love. But who am I kidding? I'm always in the

market for gardening stuff this time of year anyway as I get ready for next season. Whether you are

searching for gift ideas for someone you love or you're just looking for some ideas for yourself,

I'm going to be giving you eight of my favorite garden tools and books.

Now, when I went through this list in my mind,

I was trying to pick out the ones that I have found the most benefit from.

When it comes to the tools, they're the ones that I am using day in and day out. I do not know

what I would do in my garden without them, and I wanted to pass them on to you in case you're

looking for some tools in your tool belt that you can use in your garden. I'm also going to talk

to you about three of my favorite books, the ones that I go back to time and time

again that I recommend to gardeners. Now, I read a lot of gardening books, and I have a lot of

favorites, but these are the ones that I keep going back to. They're the ones that serve as a

reference to me. So they're not just ones that are one and done. They're the ones that help me

throughout my gardening season every year. After you listen to this episode, you're probably going to

want to go back and take a look at some of these tools and books that I've talked about.

And so you can do that at my website at journey with Jill.net. I'll have links directly to everything that I mentioned,

but I also am going to link to a few blog posts I have done that give you some other ideas as

far as tools and books. I actually have a lot more that I would like to share with you,

and I have those on my website, and they'll be linked to the show

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