455-The Top Five Seed Starting Mistakes to Avoid-Encore Presentation
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Joe Lamp'l
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Seed starting is a welcome way to get our hands dirty during winter and early spring, but a few common missteps can quickly turn excitement into frustration. In this encore episode, I'm revisiting the five most common seed-starting mistakes gardeners make — and sharing practical ways to fix them or avoid them altogether for better results.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. It's Joe Lampel, the Joe behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner show. |
| 0:05.2 | We are in seed starting season. Pretty much, you know, we're probably a couple weeks ahead of when we should |
| 0:12.1 | probably really get going, but it's close enough for me to be talking about it. In fact, I've been |
| 0:17.6 | talking about it for quite a while now. I've already started a lot of |
| 0:21.0 | seeds in the greenhouse and in my seed starting room. And I just love this time of year. You know, |
| 0:27.2 | when the holiday season ends, now I can really focus on seed starting, which is my favorite season |
| 0:32.1 | of the year. And maybe for you too. But this is certainly the time of year that we want to be talking about |
| 0:38.1 | getting our equipment ready and sewing our seeds and how we do it and how we maintain it and |
| 0:43.6 | get them to the point that they are ready to go outside into the garden and they're thriving |
| 0:48.2 | and healthy and beautiful and all the things we want from those seedlings that we started from |
| 0:52.8 | seeds. We take ownership of those from the moment |
| 0:55.5 | that we put them into the soil and then, you know, we just totally take ownership of it. At least, |
| 1:01.0 | okay, I'm speaking for myself, but I also know that this is very true for a lot of you. |
| 1:06.2 | Many of my students in Master Seed Starting, our course, our online course in the Online Gardening |
| 1:10.1 | Academy. They feel that way. It's just a thing. There's this magic spell, I think, that students in master seed starting our course, our online course in the online gardening academy. |
| 1:15.4 | They feel that way. It's just a thing. There's this magic spell, I think, that happens. But as we come into this time of year, I want to address some of the most common mistakes that |
| 1:22.2 | are made, especially when you're new at this and you don't know what you don't know. And I don't |
| 1:27.1 | want you to feel overwhelmed or you't know what you don't know. And I don't want you to |
| 1:27.7 | feel overwhelmed or you lose hope because something doesn't go the way you want it to. So I want to |
| 1:33.8 | help you not make those mistakes or understand what you need to do to fix them if you find |
| 1:39.6 | that you've ended up going down that wrong path. But that's how we learn. You know, it's okay because I still, |
| 1:45.3 | at this stage of my career and in my experience with seed starting, which is decades now, |
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