Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast, Kevin Espiritu here, I'm joined

again by Scott Degh, owner and producer of Tomato Mania, which is the world's largest

tomato seedling sale and really some crazy unique stuff.

Here in San Diego, I was able to check out the Mission Hills Nursery One the last couple

of years and it's just really amazing stuff so excited to do it again this year Scott.

Thanks for coming back on and we're talking tomato seedlings now so let's assume we've

germinated some seedlings and you know we have weeks and weeks sometimes even a month

or two maybe a little longer before they actually go into the ground.

This is a sensitive time you want to set your plants up for success and so I'm curious

what are you thinking about as far as care goes?

Well first of all you got to backing up a little bit you know you got to make sure that

you're working with a quality seed. You got to make sure that you know and it's hard.

We don't know and you look at a seed, anybody can look at a seed and go, oh how's that

ever going to work right? This little dried thing, how is that going to turn into what

I wanted to and then magically it does and yes you have to be able to give it all the

right stuff but it starts with good seed so buy from reputable companies and people who

are working at this and doing it all the time and making you know making this their business.

It is their business to make you successful as we try to do as well and so that's important.

You're planting presumably I guess all of your listeners are your audience you have people

doing a wide variety of things but most of us whether we're in a fridgey cold winter or

even Southern California. If we do start seedling we're spending we're using sometime in

cells or even in artificial light in some situations. So you plant a good seed you use a great

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