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Proactive gardeners don't look at fall as the end of the gardening season, but as the beginning of their spring garden. With so much that can be done now to prepare, it's the ideal time to take care of some important business before hanging up your trowel for the winter. In this podcast, Joe Lamp'l discusses some important tasks for putting your garden to bed. And the efforts you take now will be well worth it next spring.

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Some of the best crops of the year need the cooler temperatures of fall to perform their best.If you plan on having a fall or winter garden, Joe Lamp'l offers a few tips in this podcast to keep your plants growing strong as they get established and even well into the season.

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Just because summer is over, it doesn't mean your vegetable garden has to end too. Fall is for gardening, especially when it comes to growing edibles. Some of the best crops of the year, won't even grow until things cool down. So keep your tools handy as Joe Lamp'l tells us what we need to know to prepare our fall garden for planting.

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If you’ve been listening to the series from the start, chances are you’ve had a productive gardening season! And that leads to the inevitable question we all find ourselves asking sooner or later; what am I going to do with all these vegetables? In this episode, Joe Lamp'l shares the best and newest ideas for easily sharing the bounty.

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Some of the most rewarding and productive crops in your garden are also some of the easiest to grow. Their growing season can span much of the year. In addition, they don’t require as much sun, they can be harvested quickly, and after harvest, they keep coming back. They’re the leafy crops like lettuce, kale, collards and spinach. From seed to harvest, they only require a few weeks. In this podcast, Joe Lamp'l tells us why we should all be growing these incredible plants in our gardens.

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At some point during the growing season, many of your plants are going to become so large, they’ll overtake other plants in your garden. So congratulations on that. But you really don’t want to let your garden get to that point where they’re overcrowding others. But if they are, now’s the time to do something about it for several reasons. In this podcast, Joe Lamp'l explains why, and what to do about it.

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Why won't my tomatoes ripen? They should be red by now, but they're stuck on green. Why won' they turn red??? Starting in mid to late summer, It's the most common question I get. Fear not because it's nothing you're doing wrong. But Mother Nature is at work, and you'll be rewarded for your patience. In this podcast, Joe Lamp'l demystifies the reasons why tomatoes take their sweet time to ripen.

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Being proactive, can go a long way to having a healthy garden. In this podcast, hear what Joe Lamp'l has to say about proactively reducing the chances of keeping pests at bay in an environmentally responsible way.

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Having a healthy garden is a hands-on activity. Although starting out right results in a lot less of our time later on, it's still important to be "proactive" by heading off problems before they get out of hand. Accordingly, you'll have a lot less potential for disease problems. In this podcast, hear what Joe Lamp'l has to say about proactively reducing the chances of disease problems in your garden.

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We all know that water is essential to life, so it’s certainly true for the plants in our garden too. But did you know that too much a good thing can be a bad thing? More plants are killed by over watering than under watering! In this podcast, Joe Lamp'l talks about the best and most efficient ways to water for keeping your plants and garden looking great!

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The broadest definition of a weed is simply a plant out of place. Now that description may be over reaching, but the implication has merit. The reason being, whatever the plant, it’s depriving water, nutrients and sunlight from the plants you do want there! So even if it’s a plant that doesn’t fit in the classic weed category, if it’s in the wrong place it needs to go. Otherwise, that "weed" is going to compete with your other plants. In this podcast, Joe Lamp'l provides useful strategies for keeping weeds at bay.

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