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The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l

348-The Top Five Seed Starting Mistakes and How to Fix Them

The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l

Joe Lamp'l

Hobbies, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Seed starting is a fun winter and early spring activity that gives us an opportunity to exercise our green thumbs during an often dreary time of year, but missteps can lead to disappointment. To help you have a successful and delightful experience, this week I am sharing the top five seed starting mistakes and how to fix them or avoid them altogether.

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0:00.0

Hi everybody it's Joe Lample the Joe behind Joe Gardner and welcome to the

0:03.7

Joe Gardner show we are in seed starting season pretty much you know we're

0:09.2

probably a couple weeks ahead of when we should probably really get going but it's close

0:15.2

enough for me to be talking about it in fact I've been talking about it for quite a

0:18.6

while now I've already started a lot of seeds in the greenhouse and in my seed starting room and I just

0:25.2

love this time of year.

0:27.0

You know when the holiday season ends, now I can really focus on seed starting which is my favorite

0:31.7

season of the year and maybe for you too.

0:35.0

But this is certainly the time of year that we want to be talking about getting our equipment

0:39.6

ready and sewing our seeds and how we do it and how we maintain it and get them to the point that they are ready to go

0:46.0

outside into the garden and they're thriving and healthy and beautiful and all the

0:49.7

things we want from those seedlings that we started from seeds. We take ownership of those

0:54.4

from the moment that we put them into the soil and then you know we just totally

0:59.3

take ownership of it at least okay I'm speaking for myself but I also know that this is very true

1:04.5

for a lot of you many of my students in master seed starting our course our online

1:09.1

course in the online gardening academy they feel that way it's a thing. There's this magic spell I think that happens.

1:15.8

But as we come into this time of year, I want to address some of the most common mistakes

1:21.9

that are made, especially when you're new with this and you

1:24.8

don't know what you don't know.

1:26.5

And I don't want you to feel overwhelmed or you lose hope because something doesn't go the way

1:32.2

you want it to.

1:33.4

So I want to help you not make those mistakes or

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