What's going on everyone? How is it going today? It's going pretty well for me.

Sunny day here, but brisk in San Diego, California.

And I'm taking a question today from Isaac, who is a chef who has radically transformed his and his family's health, I think, over the course of the last year by starting to grow a lot in his backyard, which is inspiring to hear.

In fact, I think his garden is much bigger than mine. So Isaac, I'm a little

jealous of you, my friend. Anyways, his question today is, when using pellets made of peat or coconut quar, do you have to take the netting off?

And so what he's asking here refers to starting seeds.

Now if you've started seeds with peat pellets, those jiffy peat pellets or a coconut

quar pellet, which are more or less the same thing. There are some differences but

for the purposes of starting seeds they're pretty much the same.

A lot of the times those are going to come with a netting of sorts around the material because

both of these are granular loose materials that if you were to try to start

seeds in them on their own, you would need some sort of container to hold them.

And so what a peat pellet is doing is it's providing its own container with this little netting.

And so Isaac's question is, do I need to take that netting off once my plant has germinated?

Maybe it's got off to a good start it's sizable and I'm ready to

transplant it into the garden well the short answer for Isaac and everyone else

out there is no you don't the reason for this is that as seed-starting technology has evolved,

these types of products are being created with a biodegradable mesh or a biodegradable net.

And first of all, roots are exceptionally strong

in most cases.

And you wouldn't need to remove the net

even if it wasn't biodegradable,

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