35: Choosing and Growing Seeds - Interview with Mike at White Harvest Seed Company
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.7 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Who better to ask about growing seeds than the owner of a reputable seed company? I met Mike a few years ago and even from our first conversation I could tell he knew his stuff. In this episode he and I talk all about seeds:
>How to choose the right seed varieties when there are so many choices
>How to start seeds indoors
>Which seeds to start indoors vs. which ones to wait and plant in the garden
>The answer to his most asked garden question
>The biggest key to seed germination
...and so much more!
Grab this week's free download -- Seed Starting Quick Reference Guide -- along with the show notes at http://journeywithjill.net/seedstarting
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey With Jill.net, and my goal is to give |
| 0:07.3 | beginning gardeners the tools they need to grow a rewarding, productive garden. |
| 0:32.5 | Welcome back to the Beginners Garden podcast. I've got a very special episode today as you'll get to sit in on my chat with Mike from the White Harvest Seed Company. |
| 0:40.1 | Depending on when you're listening to this episode, you may be like me and have a coffee table full of seed catalogs. |
| 0:44.7 | It's so fun to dream of what to plant in this season's garden, isn't it? |
| 0:52.5 | In today's episode, Mike is going to give us some fantastic advice and tips on choosing our seeds and growing them. |
| 0:56.0 | I asked him questions such as, how can we decide which seed varieties will work best for us, considering all the options available, and whether |
| 1:01.5 | we should start particular seeds indoors or wait to plant them in the garden. He also offers |
| 1:07.4 | six basics for starting seeds indoors along with so many other great ideas and tips. |
| 1:14.5 | Before I bring him on, let me give you a little bit of background on Mike. As he'll tell you himself, |
| 1:20.1 | he's the owner of the White Harvest Seed Company in southern Missouri, and I met him at my first |
| 1:25.4 | visit to the Arkansas Flower and Garden Show several years ago. |
| 1:29.5 | When I first asked him to come on the podcast, I wanted him to talk to me all about tomatoes, |
| 1:35.2 | because I'm sure I'm not the only one who gets overwhelmed with all the varieties available. |
| 1:40.4 | But as we started chatting, I realized that he had so much more to offer, which is why I've |
| 1:45.9 | split our conversation into two episodes. |
| 1:49.1 | In today's episodes, we're talking all about seeds. |
| 1:52.4 | But be sure and come back next week because we're going to talk all about tomatoes, varieties |
| 1:56.7 | he recommends, suggestions on growing them, dealing with pests and diseases. |
| 2:01.9 | It's good stuff. But today is all about seeds. And one thing I want you to listen for toward the end of the |
| 2:07.7 | interview is when he talks about optimum soil temperatures that seeds need to germinate. |
| 2:12.9 | This is something I completely missed when I first started gardening, but once I started paying |
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