S1E73 How To Properly Harden Off Seedlings

This is the fourth and final episode in our three part series on starting seeds. When I started this series, my plan was to only do three episodes: one on What to start, when to start, how much to start. The second would cover 6 basic things needed for seed starting. And finally I planned to wrap up the series by talking about how we start seeds on 3B Farm and Homestead. But, this week as I was scrolling through some of the Homesteading and Gardening groups on Facebook, I saw many people asking what "hardening off" seedlings meant and how to do it. And I got to thinking. No series on seed starting is complete without a discussion of this process. Because you can have all of the right gear; you can do everything right; you can have beautiful seedlings but if you don't harden them off properly, 9.9 times out of 10, they will die and you will have wasted all of that time, effort and energy. In fact, the 2 most common mistakes I see people who are new to seed starting make is they don't have the lights close enough to their plants and end up with leggy seedlings. And they don't harden the seedlings off properly and end up with dead plants.

So, on this episode we talk about what it means to harden of seedlings, when to start it and how we do it here on 3B Farm and Homestead.

Enjoy!
Brian

Here is the link from Charles Dowding about growing onions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k0f4GoC6Zw&list=PLexkhymi_Boznom00IUXU3TwM7WoyPpC1

Here is the link to the interview with Caleb at Caleb versus Self.: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/e90f850d-6d64-4511-8018-f1acf55897bf

Here is the link to the Drooling Moose Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/16Y0jMzY3E0nrtcfzwwKk1

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