What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening

podcast. We are joined again by Darrell Byers. He's the author of the New

Gardener's Handbook and he is also a garden instructor at the New York Botanical Garden.

So yesterday we talked about matching the type of plant that you're planning to the specific place

where it's going to really thrive or achieve the goal that you want it to achieve, the reason you decided to grow it in the first place.

And so today we're going to follow that up, and if it's your first year gardening or you have yet to really experiment with

starting plants from seed, well then today's episode is for you because

Darryl I think that's what we're talking about. We're talking about a simple

kind of beginner way to get started, starting seeds.

Yep, seeds want to grow.

That's the main thing that you need to understand about seeds.

They really do want to grow for you. They want to germinate, they want to make a plant, and they want to do their thing. And so as a gardener, you just need to kind of provide the conditions that make that happen and sort of encourage things to happen and don't get in their way really in lots of cases.

So one thing I like, it's fun to kind of share about when it comes to talking about seeds,

I sort of sometimes I try to get into some of the terminology of things and we talk about there's two types of plants out there called angiosperms and gymno-spur. The gymno-spers are cones, cone-bearing plants like pine trees and

spruce trees and the angiosperms are kind of all the other stuff, all the other landscape plants.

And basically what happens is an angiosperm will produce a flower.

The flower gets pollinated.

The flower then, once it's pollinated forms of fruit and the seeds are what's inside of the fruit.

So all of our landscape plants do that. They sort of create seeds that way.

And so what you can do as a gardener is you can collect seeds from your own garden plants or you can collect seeds in the

right spots in the wild if you want to to try to do stuff but you can also purchase seeds.

One of the greatest things about starting plants from seeds is the fact that the variety of plants that you can grow from seed are way more than the sort of the variety of plants

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