Hello everyone welcome back to the digital garden of epic gardening.com

podcast thank you so much for tuning in today we're talking about cheap seed

starting how do we germinate seeds inside of our homes, cheap and easy.

A lot of people find that gardening can get expensive because they buy their plants.

Well, how do you avoid that problem?

All you have to do is grow your own plants from seeds.

And once you learn how to start seeds, it is fairly similar across all different types of plants.

Of course, there are some different specifications for different plants, but in general, once

you know the process of seed starting, you in theory don't ever have to buy

plants again and that can save you quite a bit of money especially when some starts of certain

different vegetables can run you anywhere from five to ten bucks and if you have a large

garden that is a pretty big expense you'd be putting out every single season.

So how do we germinate seeds?

Well you're going to want to start with some high quality seeds.

So seeds that aren't very old, typically less than two years old,

because germination rates do go down the older seeds become. So you want some high quality seeds. You want some

soil-less seed starting stuff so you can use coconut quar you can use peat moss you can use coconut quar, you can use peat moss, you can even actually just use a paper towel if you want,

but in general you need some kind of growing medium.

And I have a huge article on my website about hydroponic growing medium that will apply to

seed starting as well. So definitely take a look at that or look in the show notes of this

podcast. You'll need some kind of container. You can use the simple nursery 2 by 2 inch ones or you can use a 10 by 20

tray, you can use old cups, you can use egg shells. I've seen people use all sorts of different

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