Planting and Mulching Establishing Plants the Right Way
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
After our seedlings have sprouted, it’s time to get them into the garden...but how? Making a mistake here can spell disaster for your newly-sprouted seeds.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everyone? |
| 0:03.0 | What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are joined again by |
| 0:18.1 | Darrell Byers. He is the author of the upcoming book, The New Gardner's |
| 0:21.3 | Handbook. If you would like to pre-order that, |
| 0:23.5 | just go ahead and check out my podcast description |
| 0:25.3 | and you can do so. |
| 0:27.0 | Darryl is also a garden instructor |
| 0:28.8 | at the New York Botanical Garden. |
| 0:31.4 | And you know, we've been talking this week about kind of a natural |
| 0:34.4 | progression of beginners knowledge right and so yesterday we talked about |
| 0:37.3 | starting plants from seed and today we're gonna say okay well you successfully |
| 0:41.1 | started your plants it's it's time to get them into the garden. |
| 0:44.8 | Actually, that does bring me to my first question, |
| 0:47.0 | Darrell. |
| 0:47.7 | If I'm starting my seeds for the first time, |
| 0:49.9 | how do I actually know when is the right time to put them into the garden? |
| 0:54.0 | Ah, you have to make sure that one thing that's sort of fun about seeds is their very first two leaves, their little seedling leaves are don't even often |
| 1:08.3 | look like the final leaf of that plant and you have to kind of what you have to wait for that plant to |
| 1:15.6 | show you some good strong shoots you know we're talking about the roots and |
| 1:19.7 | the shoots earlier so once you see some like good shoots coming up like extra leaves the true leaves are starting to form there's more sort of sprouts are getting to be you know like a couple inches tall and it's really sort of growing |
| 1:34.0 | healthy and vigorous, that's when you know that you have a good root system down |
| 1:38.5 | below. So you can kind of read the top of the plant to understand what's going on below. |
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