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🗓️ 22 March 2018
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In the final houseplant episode with Jane, we'll learn how to grow houseplants from seed...yes, seed. It's a foreign concept to most gardeners, even though we grow from seed all of the time in our veggie gardens.
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0:00.0 | What's up everyone? Welcome back and this is the final episode with Jane Perona on the ledge. |
0:05.0 | Today we're talking about something even more interesting in my opinion than both propagating and |
0:09.8 | growing a flowering house plant is actually growing house plants from seed. |
0:13.4 | So we do this with vegetables all the time, but why has it never crossed our minds to do this |
0:18.0 | with our house plants? |
0:19.5 | It can often be quite a bit cheaper and you can learn quite a lot more about how plants grow and just |
0:24.6 | enjoy that natural process of a plant growing in a way that's a little different from an |
0:30.0 | edible because of course we're not going to be eating our house plants at the end of their lives, right? |
0:35.0 | So with Jane today we're talking about exactly that. |
0:38.1 | What are some good plants to grow from seed? |
0:39.8 | Where does she get her seed and how does she learn how to do this in the first place? |
0:43.8 | Because I'll be the first to admit, this is something I haven't tried before. |
0:46.7 | So this is something that I'm really interested in and I'm curious if you guys have all |
0:50.8 | done this or it's something new for yourself as well so definitely |
0:54.5 | let me know Kevin at epic gardening.com or you can just send me a question at epic |
0:58.7 | gardening.com forward slash podcast. All right let's get into it with Jane. |
1:03.0 | Well I hope so. |
1:04.0 | Well, as I say, I think the other one that I would say is which I've been really getting heavily into this year is trying to grow stuff from seeds. |
1:12.8 | So on my podcast, we've had this challenge called On the Ledge |
1:17.1 | so along and we've been growing house plants from seed. |
1:20.8 | And that's worth mentioning just because it's a really cheap way of getting loads of house plants. |
1:28.0 | The other benefit of it is that you have plants that from day one have grown in your own conditions. |
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