From AwayToGarden.com and RobinhoodRadio.com, this is AwayToGarden with Margaret Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

Becoming a successful vegetable gardener involves a lot of trial and error.

And as the seasons pass, we hopefully get better at it, harvesting not just food for the

table, but food for thought

too. Insights gleaned along the way to guide us to improved outcomes in subsequent growing

seasons.

I don't know many more passionate vegetable gardeners than today's guest, Joe Lampel,

who has gathered what he's learned in decades of growing his own food into a new book filled

with advice for the rest of us.

He's here today to share some of those a-haz,

so more in a moment but first this message.

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Joe Lampel is the creator of the long-running public television program

Growing a Greener World and of the long running public television program, Growing a Green

or World, and of the popular Joe Gardner podcast.

Now he's also author of the new book called The Vegetable Gardening Book, Your Complete

Guide for Growing an Edible Organic Garden from Seed to Harvest, and is filled with what

he's learned from Bountiful Seasons and from some tough ones too along the way.

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