Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Kleftiwallah on April 08, 2012, 20:58
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After you have hoed out or scratched your groove (drill) and started to spread your seed in the groove, before you stand up to 'unknot' your back / admire the work so far / or refil your hand, drop a pebble or a small lump of soil at the place you have reached.
It's a begger trying to see the seeds and tell where you got to, easy with seeds of parsnip, but not so easy to see with turnip or swede. ::)
Cheers, Tony.
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a good idea tony , i am guilty of that very problem as i dont have the best eyesight in the world :D
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you could also try mixing your seed with sand - which will give you a better distribution ans you can see where they are!
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I make the v-trench. hold the seeds in left hand. and drop seeds for a feet or two with right hand. and cover it up. tap it with my hand so I have finger markings. and continue.
finally I water the finger marked lanes. :)
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good thinking , I tend to make a v groove the pour some boiling water down the length of the drill wait for a few minuites the sow into the now warm damp soil , and hopefully the initial boiling water helps kill any weed seeds ;)
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good thinking , I tend to make a v groove the pour some boiling water down the length of the drill wait for a few minuites the sow into the now warm damp soil , and hopefully the initial boiling water helps kill any weed seeds ;)
that sounds really usefull --like it !! but not sure if i trust this brocken body with boiling water though ??? but will give it a go on one of my good day,s :D
cheers jay 8)
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Am I the only one who when dropping seeds in modules forgets where they're up to when reaching for another pinch of seeds? ???
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Nooooo ... definitely not ::) ??? :D
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Am I the only one who when dropping seeds in modules forgets where they're up to when reaching for another pinch of seeds? ???
never happens with me !! --- oh the lies-- the lies :D :D :blush:
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I Never forget.
Sometimes I don't remember
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I can't remember... so I have a label ready to stick in the last module I have 'seeded'. When I have finished it goes at the end so I don't sow the whole thing twice :lol:
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I can't remember... so I have a label ready to stick in the last module I have 'seeded'. When I have finished it goes at the end so I don't sow the whole thing twice :lol:
what a great idea sunshineband !!! will do that today as raining cats and dogs here so staying in my lounge sowing seeds :D
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I can't remember... so I have a label ready to stick in the last module I have 'seeded'. When I have finished it goes at the end so I don't sow the whole thing twice :lol:
That only works so long as you remember which direction you were sowing in .... ::) :lol:
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I can't remember... so I have a label ready to stick in the last module I have 'seeded'. When I have finished it goes at the end so I don't sow the whole thing twice :lol:
Or not sow at all, so you end up watering an empty pot. (Not that I would ever do that, oh no....well not more than once!) :lol: :lol:
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I can't remember... so I have a label ready to stick in the last module I have 'seeded'. When I have finished it goes at the end so I don't sow the whole thing twice :lol:
pinch of seeds in right hand... rest of seeds in left hand.... label in between teeth?
:)
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I can't remember... so I have a label ready to stick in the last module I have 'seeded'. When I have finished it goes at the end so I don't sow the whole thing twice :lol:
pinch of seeds in right hand... rest of seeds in left hand.... label in between teeth?
:)
ooh boy !! do like that humour :D
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Am I the only one who when dropping seeds in modules forgets where they're up to when reaching for another pinch of seeds? ???
That, combined with never remembering to take my glasses with me to the greenhouse!!! ::)
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Nice ideas. I particularly like the boiling water thing. :) Might try the sand trick at the same time.
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in a cat litter tray two rows each of brassicas. dont label them.... cant you remember where and what they are? yes you can... its cabbage, cauli, brocolli. you can tell that in sleep. or is it cauli, brocolli, cabbage? oh socks!!! :)