Got snow? Make seed tape!
Carrot seeds and the other crops for seed tape making are now stocked in little free cabinets!
Don’t let the spring snowstorm slow down your gardening! You (and your kids) can stay cozy and warm indoors while preparing some seed tape to plant once we thaw out again. Seed tape is something you can buy in stores, but making it is easy with materials you have at home and is most useful for many of our spring, small-seeded, directly-sown crops like carrots! Also, lettuce, greens, scallions, radishes and herbs are good candidates for seed tape. Anything that has tiny seeds, or is planted in large quantities directly into the soil can be done with this technique.
Benefits of using Seed Tape
By pre-spacing & gluing your seeds onto your paper strips, you gain a number of advantages:
Time is saved at planting- less stooping!
Seed planting depth is easier to determine with the visual cue of the paper strip
No need to spend time thinning crowded plants later since plants grow at the exact spacing required
Seed is not wasted due to over planting- a big issue with teeny carrot seeds
Allows you to “garden” in front of the fire, TV or Zoom
How-to links for making Seed Tape
The University of Florida offers one tutorial for seed tape making, so does University of Maryland.
Patti Moreno, The Garden Girl, has a nice video on this technique!
Carrot seeds are being dropped into Little Free cabinets in our neighborhoods especially for seed-tape making. Go for a walk and pick-up some along with lettuce, greens, scallions, radishes and herbs seeds. Varieties and selection changes often.
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