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

and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the tools they need to grow a rewarding, productive garden. Hey there. Let me tell you, you are going to be glad that you pressed play on this episode

because we have an extra special episode for you today.

I don't know about you, but when I first start my tomatoes every season, whether that's from

seed indoors, which I do primarily now or years past, I would buy tomato transplants, I would

actually get started pretty well and the tomatoes would

look really good for a while. And then come midsummer around July, they started showing some

problems. And it depends on the year, which problems that they showed. But one thing that I've

noticed, especially from doing this podcast and also from hearing from you guys,

is that tomato issues in midsummer is something a lot of us face.

And if we're beginning gardeners, we don't always know what to do about some of those issues.

That's why I wanted to talk to Joe Lample, who I consider a tomato expert, and many of you do

as well, of the Joe Gardner Show, another podcast that I hope you are subscribed to, about what to

do with these common tomato problems that we face mid-season. We're going to be talking about

blossom end rot, fungal diseases, what to do when your plants are

outgrowing your trellis structure, and so much more. And be sure to listen to the end of the show

because Joe has something extra special that he is offering that will help you and me, I can't wait

for it, be able to master some of these

problems in your garden, not only for tomatoes, but also throughout your garden. Hold on tight

because this is an information-packed episode and you're not going to want to miss one minute

of it. Here's my interview with Joe Lampel of the Joe Gardner Show.

Hi, Joe. It's such a pleasure getting to chat with you today. How are you doing?

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