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Sowing very fine seed

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  • whenever I have to drill into a wall, I collect the brick dust into a small container kept for the purpose, and mix it with lobelia seeds 50/50. The red dust is very visible and helps to space the seeds nicely.
  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    For carrots, I find a piece of dark coloured plastic in the recycling bag, ideally with some sort of design in it that will provide a groove.  I then tip a small quantity of seed on to it and edge a few seeds at a time down the groove with a pencil or stick, and then singly into the soil or compost.
  • HeliosHelios Posts: 232
    I use the same method as Nick but with a piece of white paper or card bent to form a crease in which I can edge the seeds down.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    whenever I have to drill into a wall, I collect the brick dust into a small container kept for the purpose, and mix it with lobelia seeds 50/50. The red dust is very visible and helps to space the seeds nicely.
    That's the kind of thing my dad would have done.  He used to mix fine seed with ground rice.  But you have to buy that.  If he were alive today, he'd be pleased with the idea of finding a use for brick dust.
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