S13 E21: What You Didn't Know About Starting Seeds

Old Fashioned On Purpose

Jill Winger

Cows, Home & Garden, Education, Cooking, Homesteading, Leisure, Hobbies, Canning, Chickens, Homestead, Farm, Gardening, Farming, How To

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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You’ve probably heard me say that starting your own seeds is one of the most cost-effective things you can do on your homestead. And while it's not difficult, a lot of people struggle with it. I'm thrilled to be joined by THE seed starting guru today, Shawn McLoughlin of All About the Garden. Never in my life have I met a person this passionate and driven to understand every detail related to successful seed starting. Shawn holds nothing back in this episode and I learned SO much. Liste...

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0:00.0	Hey friends, welcome back to the Old Fashioned On Purpose Podcast. So this episode is
0:06.0	premiering in December and honestly gardening may be the very last thing on your
0:11.2	mind right now. I know if you're like me and living
0:13.2	a climate similar to mine I put the garden to bed and I am pretty much checked out for
0:17.5	a while at least but I wanted to invite you back into your garden at least mentally for just a little while today so we can talk about seed starting because believe it or not actually or maybe you do believe it.
0:30.0	It's going to be here before you know it and actually now is the time when a lot of seed companies are going to be here before you know it. And actually now is the time when a lot of seed companies
0:34.6	are going to be sending catalogs.
0:35.9	You're going to start needing to make plans.
0:37.6	I know I love to plan all my gardens out by the wood stove
0:40.6	on a cold winter night.
0:42.1	And so I want to help you get ready for that,
0:44.3	even though a lot of us are moving more towards the holiday
0:47.0	holiday frame of mind.
0:48.4	So in the past, I've talked on the podcast here
0:51.2	about the benefits of starting your own seeds.
0:54.4	It's one of the most cost-saving things you can do on the homestead,
0:59.0	especially when you consider that plants, like tomato starts or pepper starts,
1:03.4	they're, you know, sometimes four to five bucks a piece.
1:05.8	And if you want to grow any quantity of those,
1:07.6	it adds up really fast.
1:09.4	So starting your own seeds can save you a ton of money.
1:12.4	The only problem is is that there's a lot of
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