Growning flowers and vegetables from seed is a thrilling experience, but aspects of it can be challenging. Many people find the very first step, sowing seeds, difficult. In recent years arthritis and rheumatism have made my fingers clumsy, and sowing things like carrots is a real problem. Once I could accurately drop a single seed every half centimetre, but nowadays great splodges of seed cascade from my fingers. It’s a waste of seeds and the subsequent thinning a few weeks later is a nightmare.
Seed tape is the answer
Seed tapes solve this problem. They are also a brilliant device for introducing children to growing from seed – toddlers find it much easier to handle a tape or mat than small, individual seeds.
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