This week on the Good Growing Podcast Ken and Chris reminisce about 2024. We look at you favorite episodes and share our favorite moments. From cicadas to using dynamite to blow up your landscape, you will enjoy this trip down memory lane.

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00:39 Hey Ken! How was winter break?
02:01 How we assembled our year-in-review highlights.

Top three YouTube podcast episodes
03:51 Third-most popular YouTube episode - More than monarchs
YouTube https://youtu.be/cLvl96PpqOg 
Audio https://extension.illinois.edu/podcasts/good-growing/gardenbite-more-monarchs-insects-milkweed-goodgrowing 
06:08 Second most popular YouTube video from 2024 - Plants We Wouldn't Plant Again
YouTube https://youtu.be/XHqaxZPzlVU 
Audio https://extension.illinois.edu/podcasts/good-growing/ep-179-plants-we-wouldnt-plant-or-would-think-twice-about-planting-again 
07:52 Most popular YouTube video from 2024 - Plant problems we are seeing in 2024
YouTube https://youtu.be/7O96jjEbZ3o 
Audio https://extension.illinois.edu/podcasts/good-growing/ep-181-plant-problems-we-are-seeing-2024-goodgrowing 

Top three audio podcast episodes
10:56 Third favorite audio episode - Native Grasses in the Prairie and Your Yard
YouTube https://youtu.be/EaFf5zziNiQ 
Audio https://extension.illinois.edu/podcasts/good-growing/ep-176-native-grasses-prairie-and-your-yard-goodgrowing 
13:25 Second favorite audio podcast of 2024 - Monarch Butterfly Science with Dr. Andy Davis
YouTube https://youtu.be/zIt-zkivDjI 
Audio https://extension.illinois.edu/podcasts/good-growing/ep-174-monarch-butterfly-science-w-dr-andy-davis-goodgrowing 
18:16 Favorite audio episode from 2024 - Growing Perennial Vegetables, Asparagus, Rhubarb, and More
YouTube https://youtu.be/Q9PYXesCPXE 
Audio https://extension.illinois.edu/podcasts/good-growing/ep-169-growing-perennial-vegetables-asparagus-rhubarb-more-goodgrowing 

Our favorite moments and episodes from 2024
20:23 Old Timey Remedies - Dynamite in the Landscape
YouTube https://youtu.be/v64wU2PINS8 
Audio https://extension.illinois.edu/podcasts/good-growing/ep-183-old-time-garden-remedies-goodgrowing 
22:27 Ken's favorite part of 2024 was cicada-mania
YouTube https://youtu.be/U_0K70ajACM 
Audio https://extension.illinois.edu/podcasts/good-growing/ep-175-eating-periodical-cicadas-goodgrowing 
24:18 Thinking back on the Good Growing Grow Along
YouTube https://youtu.be/aC0JUpFpYsQ 
Audio https://extension.illinois.edu/podcasts/good-growing/good-growing-grow-along-final-check-2024-goodgrowing 
26:51 Attending the 2024 N.G Heimos Poinsettia Trial
YouTube https://youtu.be/sPrESNYNOzk 
Audio https://extension.illinois.edu/podcasts/good-growing/ep-194-more-red-many-colors-and-forms-poinsettias-goodgrowing 
29:06 Our favorite gardening books episode
YouTube https://youtu.be/RskDlYC8TRk 
Audio 
31:14 A favorite moment - everyone eating toothache plant flowers
YouTube https://youtu.be/Z7ywlxrKWTM 
Audio https://extension.illinois.edu/podcasts/good-growing/ep-193-our-favorite-gardening-books-winter-reading-gifts-or-anytime-year 

33:44 Lessons from the garden for 2025
39:42 Thank yous and coming up next week!

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