does anyone use the seed sowing method popular briefly many years ago of
sprouting the seeds then mixing them with wallpaper paste and oozing it
along the veg bed? It was supposed to help germination and spread out the
seeds to minimise thinning. Obviously use a paste without fungicide in it.
Are there disadvantages to it, as I never hear about it now?

cheers

"Oxymel of Squill" wrote in message
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does anyone use the seed sowing method popular briefly many years ago of
sprouting the seeds then mixing them with wallpaper paste and oozing it
along the veg bed? It was supposed to help germination and spread out the
seeds to minimise thinning. Obviously use a paste without fungicide in it.
Are there disadvantages to it, as I never hear about it now?
cheers

Never tried it myself........seems you can use jelly as well :~)

Germinate in Jelly

There are various ways to plant very fine seeds, such as carrots, turnips,
etc., to try to space them evenly within their garden rows. Using plain
gelatine in a dish soap bottle actually allows you to see how many seeds get
dispensed per inch. Remove the pop-up part from the bottle cap and mix one
package of plain gelatine with 1 tablespoon of warm water until the gelatine
is dissolved. The gelatine needs to be thick enough so the seeds will stay
somewhat suspended in the gel, yet liquid enough to be squeezed out of the
bottle evenly. To get the right number of seeds, add a small amount of seeds
to the gel, shake well, and practise squeezing out rows onto a cookie sheet,
increasing the number of seeds as needed. When you've got the right
proportion you can sow the seeds in the garden, squeezing the mixture out of
the bottle as you move down the row, and shaking the bottle to keep the
seeds evenly distributed in the gel. Cover the seeds with soil as
recommended on the seed packet. You can have your garden planted in no time
at all and the gel seems to promote faster germination.

Cook a bit of arrowroot or even cornflower to give a thickish cream
and use that rather that contaminate the ground with a nasty
fungicide.

G

"Oxymel of Squill" wrote in message
reenews.net...
does anyone use the seed sowing method popular briefly many years ago of
sprouting the seeds then mixing them with wallpaper paste and oozing it
along the veg bed? It was supposed to help germination and spread out the
seeds to minimise thinning. Obviously use a paste without fungicide in it.
Are there disadvantages to it, as I never hear about it now?

When I was small, wallpaper paste was made of flour mixed with water, worked
very well, was a lot cheaper than industrial made paste, and is not poluted
with any chemicals at all, try that.

Alan

When I was small, wallpaper paste was made of flour mixed with water,
worked very well, was a lot cheaper than industrial made paste, and is not
poluted with any chemicals at all, try that.
I have a vague recollection that my step uncle (6 months older than me,
it's complicated) used to make his airfix aeroplanes that way. Can't say
with what success

Oxymel of Squill writes


When I was small, wallpaper paste was made of flour mixed with water,
worked very well, was a lot cheaper than industrial made paste, and is not
poluted with any chemicals at all, try that.
I have a vague recollection that my step uncle (6 months older than me,
it's complicated) used to make his airfix aeroplanes that way. Can't say
with what success

I think it needs to soak into both surfaces to form a bond - I can't
imagine it working on plastic.

Other disadvantage is tendency to mould - I think modern wallpaper
pastes have mould inhibitors.


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Kay