Hey, friends. Welcome back to the Old Fashioned on Purpose Podcast.

So I'm taking a little bit of a break from our theme of talking to some of my favorite

authors this season. And I wanted to do a solo episode to fill you in on something kind

of interesting that happened to me here on the homestead this spring. As the first

time this has ever happened to me. And I learned a lot from this whole adventure. You want

to call it that. So I thought I would share this story with you because I have a feeling

that maybe you've had this issue as well. So I did share this in a YouTube video a couple

of months ago. So this is a little bit of a repeat of that information. But I know I have

a group of people who watch YouTube and I have a group of people who listen to the podcast

and sometimes they don't always cross over. So I like to make sure the info goes and for

both platforms. So do you follow me on Instagram? I talked about this kind of the beginning

of this saga. I think it was in May, April, April May. And I didn't really give a great conclusion

because I got really deep into writing my book. And I fell off the Instagram ragon real

hard. I just kind of stopped posting completely over there almost. And so I wanted to give you

the whole story. Also some of you may not be on Instagram. You might have missed it. So

anyway, big learning opportunity for me this year. And the story begins with my seed starting

this year. So I've talked a ton about starting seeds. We have blog posts on it in videos and

I've done podcast episodes. You guys know, or most of you should know, I start my seeds from scratch,

almost pretty much every year. The last decade. And I do tomatoes and peppers and the whole

nine yards. And I have, you know, Baker racks in my basement with fluorescent shop lights. And I

start the seeds in little containers and potting soil. And you know, off we go, it's just really

simple. I've explained it lots of different platforms. And it's really basic. And it's always worked

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