When to Sow Seeds and Plant Outside
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Epic Gardening
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🗓️ 25 February 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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The most common question I get is, “When do I start my seeds?” It’s a complicated answer because it depends on your own climate and growing zone.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:06.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to an awesome episode here on the |
| 0:17.2 | epic gardening podcast. I'm joined again by Joe Lample, the |
| 0:20.4 | Joe behind Joe Gardner, host of growing a greener world on PBS and also the creator of the online gardening academy where he teaches in-depth gardening courses and the one we're really focusing on and featuring this week is Master Seed Starting. |
| 0:34.7 | You can go find it. |
| 0:35.4 | It's open right now at Joe Gardner.com forward slash epic. |
| 0:40.4 | So Joe, I know this is the most common question I get and I have a feeling it is for you too and it's also the hardest one because it's there is no blanket |
| 0:48.9 | It's not like what temperature do tomatoes need to germinate somewhere around 70-ish it's it's conditional |
| 0:55.7 | upon where that human being lives and so it's very very hard to answer and to |
| 1:00.3 | answer it you kind of have to teach them how to think about gardening in general, right? |
| 1:04.6 | Yeah. And that question would be, hey, when do I sew my seeds and then how do I know when to start them outside? |
| 1:10.3 | Yes. Yes, and I gotta say, when you live in an area of the country or the world where you're looking at snow this time of a year and you just can't wait to see something green and growing. You get very anxious there and you |
| 1:25.0 | can't blame anybody for that but unfortunately a lot of people and I'm |
| 1:28.8 | hearing from a lot of people right now that have done started their seeds way too early and you |
| 1:34.9 | know they're like ready to plant the seeds have grown to the point that they kind of |
| 1:38.3 | need to go outside right now but those seeds starters probably are a couple months out from before they get to that frost-free |
| 1:46.3 | date when they can really do it, but you can't blame them because they're anxious to do it. |
| 1:50.2 | So to that point, I think the first thing for people to understand is that can you start seeds too early? |
| 1:59.0 | Well, yeah, you probably can and the reason that I say you probably can is that the environment that |
| 2:04.6 | we create inside our house is never going to be as good as that seed is going to get |
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