The Ultimate Seed Starting Guide: Everything You Need to Know For Starting Seeds Indoors: Best of Growing Joy Replay
Growing Joy with Plants - Wellness Rooted in Nature, Houseplants, Gardening and Plant Care
Maria Failla- Happy Plant Lady and Author of Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness
4.8 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you're a beginner gardener, starting seeds could be kind of scary and intimidating. |
| 0:06.3 | At least that was the case for me. I gardened only with seedlings for a while because I was |
| 0:12.4 | scared to start seeds and deal with getting the equipment and finding the space and doing the |
| 0:17.6 | timing right and yada, yada, yada. But today's episode, which is an episode that we've |
| 0:21.9 | brought back from the archives on seed starting with the seed starting goat, Joe Lample of joe |
| 0:27.4 | Gardner.com, is going to convince you otherwise. Joe is a gardening expert, an old PBS host. |
| 0:34.8 | He's a longtime garden mentor and friend of mine, and this conversation really demystifies |
| 0:39.2 | seeds starting from the ground up and makes it super accessible and also explains why it's worth it. |
| 0:45.5 | Because let me tell you, some of the tastiest tomatoes I've ever grown have been from seed |
| 0:50.3 | because you can't get the species of tomatoes in the garden center that you can get in a seed |
| 0:56.5 | packet. So it's it's really rewarding. I hope you love this episode. Let's go start some seeds |
| 1:01.7 | together. Welcome to the Growing Joy with Plants podcast where we not only learn how to care for plants successfully, |
| 1:14.2 | but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more joy in our lives by doing so. |
| 1:20.2 | I'm Maria, former plant killer turned happy plant lady, author of Growing Joy, The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness, |
| 1:26.6 | speaker, podcaster, and most importantly, your new best plant friend. |
| 1:30.7 | On Growing Joy with Plants, you'll find conversations about house plant care, |
| 1:34.3 | gardening tutorials, and wellness through the lens of plants. |
| 1:37.8 | Plant care is self-care. |
| 1:40.7 | On Growing Joy. |
| 1:51.1 | I have been looking forward to this day since you invited me on the show. Hey, Maria. |
| 1:58.3 | You've been my plan for instance episode four. You were my fourth or fifth guest. Listeners might remember you from our live Christmas tree episode. Yes. Which was way back when. And then we had you back on for |
| 2:05.0 | Fall Garden Project. We had you back on in 2019. And I'm so happy to have you back to chat about something that I'm very |
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