Hi everybody this is Joe Lample the Joe behind Joe Gardner and welcome to the

Joe Gardner show today's episode is going to be on a topic that I think many of

you are going to relate to maybe for the first time probably for the first time, probably for the first time.

Some of you will have been down this road before,

but I'm talking about gardening burnout,

and for as long as I've been a gardener and I've been involved in gardening

and making my career around gardening with people from all over the country and beyond

The topic of gardening burnout never really came up

Overwhelm yes, but I'm going to say that those are not the same thing. There are some similarities, but they're not exactly the same. And we'll talk about the differences and similarities in a minute. The reason why I'm bringing this conversation up today is that as this year

was progressing and we got deeper into summer I started hearing more and more people

talking about gardening burnout from within my online gardening a community of several

thousand people to social media post and pretty much everywhere I was turning people were talking

about how difficult this year was compared to any other year.

And I'll be the first to say, you know, gardening is not necessarily considered easy.

There is a lot to do. It can be pretty demanding demanding especially when you consider environmental

external forces it causes us to do a lot of things that we hadn't planned on doing

so I get it the guarding burnout is something different than guarding overwhelmed.

And I think we've all felt overwhelmed with gardening at some point if we've been doing it for any

length of time at all. It can easily feel that way. And if with gardening certainly with other aspects of our life

it tends to creep in all too often and the same thing with burnout but today I

definitely want to cover the aspects of how we recognize it in the garden and how we deal with it.

Where does it come from? How do we avoid it or manage it? And if nothing else, I want you to

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