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How to Harden Off Seedlings: Simple Steps So Your Seedlings Survive Transplanting
Season 7 · Episode 19

How to Harden Off Seedlings: Simple Steps So Your Seedlings Survive Transplanting

Food Garden Life Show: Helping You Harvest More from Your Edible Garden, Vegetable Garden, and Edible Landscaping · Steven Biggs: Horticulturist and edible landscaping expert.

May 9, 202425m 20s

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Show Notes

Your vegetable seedlings can look great indoors. Then fall like dominoes in the garden.

If they’re not hardened off.

But if you harden off seedlings, they stand a much better chance once you plant them in the garden.

In this episode, Donna and Steven talk about:

  • What hardening off means
  • Why harden off seedlings
  • How to harden off seedlings
  • When to harden off seedlings
  • Harden off seedlings in a greenhouse

If you’re looking for more on growing vegetables from seed, check out post on how to direct seed vegetables

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