Northeast Seed Companies
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🗓️ 9 April 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Living up in northeast USA? Here’s a fantastic seed company to support.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are joined again by |
| 0:18.4 | Seed Woman Rajette Pena of San Diego Seed Company. We've been talking about different regions of America |
| 0:24.6 | and some seed companies that we are going to profile. |
| 0:27.7 | So if you do live in these areas, |
| 0:29.3 | you should check them out. |
| 0:30.3 | So we have one for the northeast. Which one is that one, Brigette? |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, Fruition, Seeds is a really neat company in the Northeast and they specialize in short season varieties. |
| 0:42.8 | You know, that do well in that area. |
| 0:46.2 | I think Kevin, if you and I went there and tried to garden in the northeast, |
| 0:50.3 | we, I don't know how well we would do because it's a very different season |
| 0:54.7 | pattern and you know their season is so short. I know I would fail I know I would |
| 1:00.1 | mess up the first year really. In fact you know when I meet people from the Northeast that Garden, I always feel like |
| 1:05.3 | I should just bow to them. |
| 1:06.8 | Like, you know, they don't think. |
| 1:08.6 | They know what they're doing because they have a short period to do it in. |
| 1:11.4 | Everyone is, of course, jealous of our zone 10b climate, but I actually weirdly think that it makes you |
| 1:17.9 | kind of a worse gardener because you don't have to be as precise. |
| 1:21.8 | Absolutely. |
| 1:23.0 | You can just like be close and ish kind of and you don't have to know your seasons or like you |
| 1:29.2 | don't have to understand temperature or humidity as well as when you're in areas like the northeast where you |
| 1:35.4 | have to know what the ground temperature is like have you ever taken a soil |
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