From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret

Roach.

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

Whether out loud here on the podcast or just between us on one of our periodic late Friday

afternoon fun calls, I always benefit from catching up with today's guest, Joe Lampel,

aka Joe Gardner. Probably no time for talking is more beneficial than around

years and when Joe and I like to compare notes on what went well and not so much in our garden

adventures. Comparing notes with a friend who's a fellow Gardner can help each of us do better

next time and that's what's on the agenda, so more in a moment but first these messages.

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On the web, HighMohingSeeds.com and by White Flower Farm offering a wide range of carefully You may know Joe Lampel as Joe Gardener, host of a popular podcast by the same name and

creator of a suite of online courses about gardening or perhaps you know him from his former

long-running public television program called Growing a Greener World. Joe Gardner's in the Atlanta area, and I don't know any home gardener who starts more seeds each

season thinks thousands and thousands and then thousands more for good measure. He's the author

of the vegetable gardening book, Your Complete Guide to Growing and Edible Organic Garden from

Seed to Harvest, and I'm glad he's back to recap the year with us. Hi Joe, how are you?

Mr. Thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands.

I love talking to you for many reasons, but you make me laugh so much. That right there

I'm busted, but it's true. I can't deny it. How many?

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