What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we're talking about a plant that has a lot of history and you've probably heard of it before. It's sage, but specifically it's white sage or Salvia a piano.

It's also been known throughout history as quashial,

Piltay, shaltai, and many more ancient names.

And that's because for hundreds of years,

it's been used by Native Americans

for many different things. It has an intense scent when it's crushed or rubbed

making it a wonderful herb for smudge sticks burning essential oils etc but on

top of that you can actually use the seeds of the white sage as well

and those seeds were once a staple of Native American tribes in a dish they called

Pinole which was an ancient grain mixture. But for us, as

gardeners, how do we grow this stuff and how do we make sure that it thrives?

Well first of all, white sage grows into a very large shrub so when you're planting it

you need to be careful to make sure it has conditions it needs to thrive

get to that larger size and produce those beautiful sage wands that many of these

gardeners grow it for. The seeds are plentiful in the seed pods of the plant, but they germinate

rather poorly.

So to increase your chances of germination, you'll want to start more seeds in general, start

them indoors, and sew them no deeper than an eighth of an inch but you may want to just surface

so them because the seeds prefer a little bit of light when they're germinating

and honestly it takes a while for them to germinate it probably will take

anywhere from two to three weeks for you to start seeing

seedlings. Now let's assume you've gotten to the point where you do have seedlings

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