Hey you guys and welcome back to the podcast. Today we're going to be talking about soil blocking.

Soil blocking is a method of indoor seed starting that became very popular with home gardeners several years ago and I was one of them.

The benefits are hard to argue. But after many years of consistently using soil blocks, I started seeing some drawbacks in my own personal experience that has led me to another method, one with almost all of the same benefits, but none of the drawbacks.

So if you're considering using soil blocks for indoor seed starting or you found yourself running into issues,

my hope is that this episode will give you some options.

Soil blocking is still a very good method that many gardeners and farmers use extensively.

And hopefully by the end of this episode, you'll learn whether this is the right method for you.

Welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill and I'm so glad you're here. In this podcast,

you'll find easy to understand conversations about how to grow your own food. As a first time

gardener, myself 11 years ago, I remember what it's like to feel overwhelmed.

So I want to make gardening so doable for you that you'll find yourself falling in love with gardening just like I did.

Let's dig in.

Before we get into soil blocks and explaining what they are, how they benefit you, and why I'm actually going away from them,

understand that soil blocking isn't something that I would necessarily recommend to a beginning seed starter.

What I use now is actually a great option.

We're going to get to that.

But it does require a little bit more of an investment than most of us do in the beginning.

So these concepts that we're talking about today are definitely some to keep in mind for the future.

But for this year, I recommend that you plan on attending the beginner's guide to indoor seed starting.

It's a workshop live online on Thursday, January 11th.

We will have a replay.

So if you are listening to this after that, then you can definitely check out the replay

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