You're listening to the Beginners Garden Podcast.

I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey With Jill.net, and my goal is to give beginning gardeners ask me is what to plant.

Now, I'm not talking about what crops to plant because they've got an idea what they want

to grow. We've talked about that in a previous podcast, but they're talking about whether to plant

seeds, whether to plant transplants that they buy in the garden center, should they start their seeds

indoors to begin with, and then transplant them later and then once they

decide on that how do they know when to plant any of these things so that can be something that is

very confusing at the beginning especially if you've never done it before and you're not really

sure what the proper timing is and how you should grow these plants. My very first year I planted

anything, I had two raised beds and I went to Lowe's and bought baby plants to put in the ground.

I think those first raised beds had tomatoes, squash, okra, strawberries, and watermelon.

I was so new at gardening, it didn't even cross my mind to

plant anything from seed. To be honest, planting seeds seems scary. Would it grow? When do I plant

them? Plus, truth be told, I didn't want to wait. There's just this immediate satisfaction

to planting a baby plant in the ground that you don't get when you bury a seed

and all you see is dirt. Still, I learned quickly that planting everything from baby plants grew very

expensive the larger I expanded my garden. Plus, it didn't always work out so well depending on the

plant. The more I got into gardening and the more research I did,

I found that certain plants are best when they're planted as transplants. This is another word for

baby plant. You may also hear them called starts. For the rest of this episode, I will call them

transplants. I've also found that it's unnecessary to spend extra money to buy some crops

as transplants. Plus, as I mentioned, some of them are like my colicky firstborn. They don't like

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