When I joined Hello Homestead last October, I was worried our readers would peg me as a gardening fraud. I had successfully grown herbs in my windowsill and even tended to a small patch of cacti in my front yard while living in Joshua Tree (which, admittedly, was a low-maintenance endeavor), but this season was my first time growing seedlings. It seemed like a cardinal sin that I had never grown my own seedlings given all the gardening-savvy folks I interviewed every day.