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🗓️ 23 February 2020
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Seed starting can be tricky, so here Joe Lamp’l and I share 5 reasons that you seeds might not be germinating.
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0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
0:04.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to another episode of the Epic Gardening |
0:18.0 | podcast. Today I'm joined again by Joe Lample who is the Joe behind Joe Gardner.com. |
0:24.0 | He's the host of the amazing show Growing a greener world on PBS |
0:27.8 | and he's also the creator of the online gardening academy. |
0:31.0 | He has a bunch of in-depth gardening courses, including the one that's out right now called |
0:35.0 | Master Seed Starting, which is what we're talking about on this week of episodes. |
0:39.4 | You can go check that out if you'd like at Joe Gardner.com forward slash epic. So Joe the first couple |
0:46.6 | episodes we talked about the element seeds need to germinate as well as the quite |
0:50.8 | literal process and timeline of how and when that happens and now we can get a little bit more in the dirt and a little more practical with our listeners and say, |
1:01.0 | okay, well, knowing that, what are the reasons that seeds won't germinate? |
1:04.7 | Yeah, yeah, absolutely. |
1:07.8 | You know, a lot of times people sit there and they watch their seeds and their seed trays and |
1:11.3 | they're not sure if it's something that they've done |
1:12.8 | wrong or what they need to do to fix it and there are some really simple things |
1:17.2 | that we just need to do along the way to help those seeds along. |
1:20.0 | But then there are some seeds that need just need special. So it really has nothing to do with us. |
1:25.0 | We can help along that way, but it's more of a nature thing than anything else. |
1:30.0 | But Kevin, do you have any idea up front kind of maybe the most common reason why seeds don't germinate? |
1:34.6 | Any thoughts on that? |
1:35.8 | I mean the most common reason, man, most, I know a bunch of reasons. |
1:40.6 | I don't know the most common. |
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