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| Friends... I have a humble small raised bed garden... most plants I start are from transplants, my own or purchased. I also have larger seeds I plant like cucumbers, peas, etc.., but I find it difficult to plant tiny seeds like carrots, many different flowers, etc... My garden is too small for me to want to purchase big seed planters which are supposed to accommodate all size seeds, but I hate to thin plants and would like to plant with the proper spacing... I have made home made seed tapes, but it seems to me I remember a smaller, hand device to plant them quicker and with little preparation... Any of you have any suggestions? Take Care, Gary |
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- Posted by cold_weather_is_evil Tucson 9a/b desert (My Page) on Sun, May 11, 14 at 0:05
| One old trick is to mix tiny seeds with sand. The idea seems to be to improve the chances of putting a seed down near another while reducing the chances of clumping them up. Remember the movie Summersby with Richard Gere? He came back with an extremely tiny (but extremely expensive) amount of teeny tiny tobacco seeds. They mixed them with dry sand and then broadcast them is seedling flats to sprout. Don't remember? It was a bad movie anyways. Park Seed has a seed dribbler at http://parkseed.com/pro-hand-seeder/p/06528/ Burpee has a cheaper and simpler version at http://www.burpee.com/seed-starting/handy-seed-sower-prod001219.html?omn2pd=bz&catId=cat230002&trail= Or you could hold the seeds on a folded piece of contrasting paper that makes it easier to mete them out carefully. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Summersby
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| Thanks for your kind suggestions... I'll look into them. ...Gary "Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter." ― Rachel Carson, "Silent Spring" |
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