Now, this topic might be a little bit controversial, but certainly when I think about the topic

of seed starting mixes from the perspective of, call it a semi-permoculturist gardener,

is what I would consider myself, I certainly like to think about the whole ecosystem, both

underneath the soil and on top of the soil, as well as all the animals and plants that

sort of integrate into a garden landscape, I start to think about seed starting mix.

And I start to think about sterile seed starting mix, which is how a lot of these seed mixes

are advertised.

Okay, it's totally sterile.

You're not going to have, you know, damping off disease if you use this mix, well, here's

where I start to get confused, and you know, I don't have proof on this theory, I'm just

going to share something that I think makes a lot of sense, and it kind of goes to what

we do here at Epic Gardening, and that is we don't use a seed starting mix that is sterile

by definition.

First of all, let's say you did buy a sterile mix, right?

Well, the second you open the bag, it is no longer sterile.

So sterile is a definition in which, you know, you would have to be running it in the lab

that's like a completely sealed off space to know that it's sterile.

So already you are opening it up to all sorts of different microorganisms, right, bugs,

et cetera, even.

So that's not really going to do the trick.

Now what I tend to think is instead of going sterile plus a little bit when you open

the bag up, I think maybe the right play is to create a very lively mix and allow all

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