What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the show. Today we're going to talk about some

just a few misconceptions I guess about seeds and germinating seeds.

There's a lot that I could talk about here,

but we're going to go over just a few that I think

could help you understand

gardening a little bit better.

So the first one is on the back of a seed packet it's often going to say days to maturity or days to harvest, right? D.T.M. or D.T.H. And you would think that that is how long it takes after you sew the seed to get the food,

to get the eventual harvest of that plant.

That's true for seeds that you plant in the ground like

let's say a carrot plant or a beet. Days to maturity is the exact number of

days it will take for that variety of that seed to produce the carrot, the beat, etc.

But for a plant that you start indoors, then it's the time as soon as you transplant.

And so the days to harvest,

you must add the days to germination

to that number to get the true days to harvest

or days to maturity.

So that's kind of an annoying little thing

and I don't know why they do that on seed packets.

It should be its own measurement.

It should be its own metric if it's going to change based on transplanting or direct sewing.

The second thing we'll talk about is if you should sterilize your seed starting mix.

Well if you're buying it at a store, a lot of times it's going to be heat treated

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