Janet Baraclough wrote:
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Should I do anything other than throw them down upon the hard ground?

Just scratch over the soil surface lightly. Scatter your seed very
thinly, and gently tread over the soil or pat it with your hands, to
press them down. No need to cover them. They really are one of the
easiest plants to grow from seed.

A mere teaspoon of seed would produce a thousand plants, so you
probably have enough to try scattering a pinch in several different
locations.

A good way to scatter foxglove, and mullein, seed is to put them on the
palm of your hand and blow. (If any lodge in the whiskers, they'll drop
out later on in another part of the garden, and are sure to come up
right where you don't want them!)

I second the amendment about foxgloves being unpredictably choosy: I've
scattered them in quantities measurable in fluid ounces, and always
been surprised.

It may be worth throwing in a comment about my experience with mulleins,
which I mentioned just now. Like many plants with tiny seeds, they're
very weak competitors at the seedling stage: you must give them
newly-broken soil and watch out for rivals. On the other hand, the seed
is extremely viable when it's still barely matu again like many
others, it will germinate at once if you catch it before it's ripened
into dormancy. Indoor autumn sowing results in an interesting management
problem. Now somebody please tell me how to keep the mullein moth off:
I've had to resort to constant hand-picking.

--
Mike.