How to sow small seeds to avoid thinning: a favorite method of lazy gardeners
Small-seeded crops are included in the "arsenal" of any gardener, because they include carrots, turnips, celery, lettuce and others. Their shoots should definitely be thinned out to get a decent harvest.
An expert of the online publication Belnovosti, agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh shared a method that will help you save time on this procedure.
To do this, you will have to prepare some jelly. 3 tablespoons of starch should be diluted in 250 g of cold water and mixed thoroughly.
After this, pour the starch into 1 liter of boiling water, continuing to stir the contents of the pan.
Leave the jelly to cool, and in the meantime, work on the seeds. You will need a half-liter transparent bottle - a container left over from dishwashing liquid will work great.
Using a funnel, pour half a packet of small seeds into the container, then fill the bottle with jelly and shake it well.
Important: if lumps are found in the viscous substance, it should be passed through a sieve.
On the pre-prepared beds, form furrows, compact and press the soil using the edge of the board.
Water the beds and you can begin to “push” the seeds out of the bottle into the soil.
Due to the fact that the mixture has a thick consistency, the seeds fall into the furrows one by one, at a distance from each other, and do not stick together.
