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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I've had a better idea. What about a roll of tape with little squares of stickiness in a line with spaces at appropriate intervals. You could buy the tape and sprinkle your own seeds on it.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    @Lyn is very thrifty. She cuts up the rice/yogurt pots and makes labels from them too.
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    But it would involve eating cold rice pudding.  <green emoji>
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    They can go in the microwave

    Devon.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited September 2018
    Hostafan1 said:
    muller rice pots , I think.
    That’s the ones, they hold about 30 seeds. 
    Or yogurt pots, they’re all the same. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • You could put on recycle site (  my free recycle  or recycle) anyone won't seedlings  I have seen some ask for plants and seeds etc
  • PurplerainPurplerain Posts: 1,053
    I sow as thinly as I can, but I have seen myself sitting on my back step saying sorry to every little plant I thin out. I hate it. Poor little things.
    SW Scotland
  • @purplerain me too! I still haven't emptied the tray of unused seedlings after potting on this afternoon. They'll all be limp tomorrow so I won't feel as bad chucking them out. 
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    When sowing fine seed, my dad used to mix a tiny pinch of seed into a tablespoon of ground rice so as to distribute it more thinly.  Unlike the seed, the white rice shows up against the compost, so you know which pots you've sown..  Didn't work when I tried it though.  The rice grew mould on it, which killed the seedlings.
  • B3 said:
    It's a shame they can't sprinkle them onto sticky compostable strips so that you could cut off what you want.
    They do veg seed on tapes which I have used spring onion particularly works great just cut and bury, makes successional sowing so easy. So I don't see why they can't do it with flower seed.
    "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
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