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.Skip to what you want to know: 00:39 Hey Ken! How was winter break?02:01 How we assembled our year-in-review highlights.Top three YouTube podcast episodes03:51 Third-most popular YouTube episode - More than monarchsYouTube 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 AgainYouTube 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 2024YouTube 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 episodes10:56 Third favorite audio episode - Native Grasses in the Prairie and Your YardYouTube 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 DavisYouTube 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 MoreYouTube 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 202420:23 Old Timey Remedies - Dynamite in the LandscapeYouTube 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-maniaYouTube 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 AlongYouTube 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 TrialYouTube 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 episodeYouTube https://youtu.be/RskDlYC8TRk Audio 31:14 A favorite moment - everyone eating toothache plant flowersYouTube 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 202539:42 Thank yous and coming up next week!Contact us! Chris Enroth: cenroth@illinois.eduKen Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu Check out the Good Growing Blog: https://go.illinois.edu/goodgrowingSubscribe to the weekly Good Growing email: https://go.illinois.edu/goodgrowingsubscribeAny products or companies mentioned during the podcast are in no way a promotion or endorsement of these products or companies.Barnyard Bash: freesfx.co.uk --You can find us on most podcast platforms.  iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-growing/id1446630377     Tunein - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Gardening/Good-Growing-p1187964/  Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/202u3siWExE1tTqrVgtmCR    Vurbl - https://vurbl.com/station/good-growing-4pljnNlUtyG/    Listen notes - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/good-growing-chris-enroth-cHLPMWpvEOG/    Ivy - https://ivy.fm/podcast/good-growing-167902    Castbox - https://castbox.fm/channel/Good-Growing-id4302614?country=us