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Are patent seed sowing devices effective? If so any recommendations
please? I now have trouble sowing thinly, almost anything smaller than
peas. :-(
TIA
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:14:00 +0100, Broadback
wrote:

Are patent seed sowing devices effective? If so any recommendations
please? I now have trouble sowing thinly, almost anything smaller than
peas. :-(

There are several techniques you can use for sowing seeds if your
fingers aren't quite up to scratch ( 'scuse pun ).

Some people advocate mixing the seeds up in wallpaper paste ( non
fungicidal ) and using a makeshift icing bag to distribute the goo.
Another method is to mix the seeds with horticultural sand and
broadcast them in wide sweeps along the row.

I find a bit of stiff card folded lengthways down the middle makes for
a fine 'patent seed device', with a simple tap of the finger being all
that's needed to coax the seeds over the edge.

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On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:43:06 +0100, Stephen Howard
wrote:


I find a bit of stiff card folded lengthways down the middle makes for
a fine 'patent seed device', with a simple tap of the finger being all
that's needed to coax the seeds over the edge.

I was about to say, I just crease the centre of the seed packet
opening which does pretty much the same job as your card. I've done it
that way since my dad taught me as a kid and it serves me well now the
old fingers are getting a bit stiffer.
Rod

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