130 - Hardening Off - Transitioning to the Outdoor Garden

The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

Jill McSheehy

Gardening, Garden, How To, Education, Organicgardening, Home & Garden, Leisure, Homegardening, Beginninggardener, Vegetablegardening

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🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

After you've started your seeds, how do you transition them to the outdoor garden? Also known as hardening off plants, this is a critical step to get your seedlings ready to go outside. In this post, I'll share what you need to know to successfully transition your seedlings to the garden.

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0:00.0	You've got yourself some baby plants. Whether they're growing inside for you or you bought them at the garden center, what do you do now? How do you transition them to the outdoor garden?
0:13.0	I've had a lot of questions on this topic recently, specifically when it comes to hardening off your seedlings. Not sure what that means? Don't worry,
0:21.7	I'll explain it to you and I'll also share with you why it is so, so important. Let's get
0:27.9	our baby plants off to the best start possible. Hi, I'm Jill and in 2013 I started my
0:35.7	first garden, having no background, knowledge, or experience
0:39.3	whatsoever. Now I am embarking on my eighth season of growing my own vegetables, fruits, and herbs,
0:44.9	and I'm proof that you don't have to have decades of experience to grow your own garden,
0:49.8	big or small. I certainly don't know at all, but I can share what I've learned and bring
0:54.0	guests along who can offer much more wisdom than I have. I certainly don't know at all, but I can share what I've learned and bring guests
0:54.5	along who can offer much more wisdom than I have. I'm so glad you're here at the Beginners Garden
0:59.5	podcast today. Let's dive in. In today's episode, I'm going to talk to you a little bit about
1:05.6	indoor seedlings and how to care for those before you get them out into the garden. Then we're going to spend
1:11.3	quite a bit of time talking about the hardening off process. Again, I've heard so many of you guys
1:16.4	ask questions about that. Such good questions I want to answer here. And then finally, I'm going to
1:21.4	talk to you about the best time to transplant. And this is going to apply whether you grew your
1:26.9	seeds indoors or whether you are
1:29.2	purchasing from a garden center. This is going to apply to you either way. But before we get into all of that,
1:35.1	I do want to address something that a lot of beginners ask me, and that is, should I start with seeds
1:41.2	or should I start with transplants directly in the ground? Well, that's actually
1:46.0	the subject of a whole other episode and one I highly recommend you listen to. It was episode number
1:51.4	four, one of my very first ones, because I think it's such a common question. Some crops,
1:56.8	such as beans, corn, cucumbers, squash, melon, okra, just to name a few, are best directly sewn
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