What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we're taking a question from Isaac. Hey Isaac, how's it going?

His question is this just fine. Is this normal? Great question. Swiss Chard is an odd looking seed and as such sometimes

some odd things happen. But before we talk about Isaac's question, of course we need to talk about

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Okay, Isaac's question SwissChard, how do we start? go to GardenMaker.com if that's interesting to you.

Okay, Isaac's question, Swiss Chard,

how do we start this seed correctly?

Well, the first thing to know about charred seeds

is that they actually produce more than one plant.

So a single seed or what looks like a Swiss charred seed

actually contains within it multiple seeds.

And so what's happening there is that means that your

chart seed just by its very structure is going to require thinning even if you

only plant one and it's a large it's a large object right it's not like a

basal seed or a lettuce seed it's much larger and that's because it actually does have

more than one plant within it and so what might be happening in Isaac's situation is that if you're

planting multiple charred seeds or what you call the seed, you're going to get many

charred plants out of that and they're all going to compete with each other in that small space that you're starting that seed.

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