Well, what's up everyone? Welcome back to another epic episode with Joe Lample of Joe Gardner,

who is the host of Growing at Greener World on PBS on his website, social media as well as his online

gardening academy where he teaches really in-depth gardening courses including one that's

open right now called master seed starting.

You can go find that at Joe Gardner.com forward slash epic. Okay so Joe

yesterday we talked about the five basic elements, all seeds need to germinate, and I thought

it would be fun, or we thought it would be fun to go into the seed and just really understand

you give it those elements what is actually happening and

what's that timeline look like if you were within the seed?

It is so cool and Kevin I hope you've seen this kind of video, but if you do, if you googled seed germination process, for example,

typically you're going to get that time lapse shot of that beanseed underground and you're going to see this whole thing happen it is the coolest thing and I'm I'm kind of geeky like that I love the science

behind everything and so when it comes to seeds it's like I'm fascinated to see that

process happening before my eyes but we don't get to see what happens underneath or what the process is that leads to that seed waking up.

And so yesterday we kind of touched on some of the elements that that seed needs in order to wake up, but the

process then of what happens now is pretty cool.

So kind of to set the stage, there's two primary types of seeds that we would be growing in our

gardens and it's typically broken down into dicots and monocots and monocots are

just kind of that one leaf plant and examples would be like asparagus and

onions and garlic and grains and corn. Di-cots are the ones that we typically

are growing as pretty much everything else.

And tomatoes are a classic example of a dichot or the bean seeds where you have those two seed leaves.

But when that dry seed, whether it's a dichot or a a monocot, when it comes in contact with water, that water begins

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