Starting Your Vegetable Garden From Seed

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The summer season is still coming down the pipe and it’s not too late to start seeds. Nan Sterman shares her tips for what she considers her favorite topic to talk about in the garden. Connect With Nan Sterman: Nan Sterman is a garden expert, botanist, journalist, and educator. She hosts a TV show called A Growing Passion, is the author of three books, has a online garden school, and designs gardens. Waterwise Gardener Seed Starting Workshop San Diego Gardener Facebook Group A Growing Passion TV Show Hot Color, Dry Garde and the rest of Nan’s books Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It is the time of year and maybe even some areas slightly behind the time of year to start
0:18.2	your vegetable garden.
0:19.2	At least for spring, but there's always time to start seeds.
0:22.6	We have Nance Nerman back on the show, a gardening expert who has her own online garden
0:27.3	school, designs gardens, author, TV hosts, many, many things that NAN is doing in the
0:33.7	gardening world.
0:34.7	You know, we've been talking about garden design, water-wise gardens, ornamental gardens,
0:39.7	improving garden skillsets, and actually we're switching over, I suppose, more to my
0:44.0	the world I play in more NAN, which is vegetable gardens and talking about starting veggie gardens
0:48.3	from seed.
0:49.3	Let's talk about the summer veggie garden, because we actually have started quite a few,
0:55.6	I suppose, second-round-ish summer crops, because obviously our tomatoes and peppers
0:59.8	are already started, but the squash is in the pumpkins and corn and stuff like that.
1:07.4	What are some of your go-to's when you're doing summer stuff, NAN?
1:10.4	Well, it's not too late to start tomatoes and peppers and eggplants and all of those.
1:15.4	They actually start really well now, because the temperature here in mid-April, the temperature
1:23.0	is warm enough now, that you don't have to worry about starting them on a heat mat,
1:27.9	you don't have to worry about whether you're going to start them indoors or afterwards,
1:30.8	you can just start them outdoors and you don't have to worry about hardening them off.
1:34.2	I teach this in my online workshop.
1:36.4	I teach in-person workshops and I teach online workshop and the online workshop is, I'm
1:40.2	still enrolling people now and I will through May, because you can start all tomato, eggplant,
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