Oops! Here's the link....... :)

http://heavypetal.ca/archives/2011/01/step-by-step-how-to-make-seed-balls/

Ginny

We made them at a hort. club meeting once. I don't remember how it did, though - maybe mine didn't get planted. I think we did them with paper toweling? (Didn't look at the link yet).

Here is a link that might be useful: The link

This post was edited by marciaz3 on Mon, Mar 3, 14 at 20:38

That's the link Marcia. :)

I also used paper towel or toilet paper or something like that. It actually worked quite well, I think. Same idea using strips of wet newspaper in rows I guess. :)

Ginny

I saw those at a seed exchange this weekend. I saw the end results and they were great, she just put them in a pot filled with soil and had lots of annuals growing. She also had the paper ones cut into shapes, bees and butterflies. I don't know what kind of paper she used tho. Great ideas!

Last year, I pre-spaced my carrots using 1 ply TP and a little water/cornstarch paste mixed together. Worked like a charm. No thinning seedlings YAY! The TP just dissolved and my carrots grew as normal.

Haven't tried seed balls.

I hope it is okay to paste a link to something similar to the seed ball - I like the idea and the poster did an excellent job with descriptions and photos. I always seed my carrots too thick, then fail to use the rake to thin them and regret it afterwards. So I'm gonna try a row using the tp method RWS shows.

I can see the value of the seed ball when guerrilla gardening - I've thought of doing that too.

Thanks for the idea.

Here is a link that might be useful: Homemade Seed Tape

I think I shall just stick to sowing carrots and lettuce with bran. I have neither the time nor the patience for homemade seed tape. Just as easy to thin the seedlings, IMO. :) Sowing them on top of moistened tp might be easy enough though. :)

Marg, I have made the tissue paper ones in the past as gifts for Easter and such. They actually work rather well. :)

Ginny

Thanks Ginny. I'll give it a try. The paper they were using looked more like crepe paper tho, not as light as tissue paper and sort of crinkly. Marg

Pretty much the same thing, just crinkled, as you said. Haha :) I think the tissue paper "streamers" just make it a bit thicker and easier to work with as long as one uses white or natural colored. The dye runs like crazy on the colored ones. :)

Ginny

I made seed tape last year with beet seeds on strips of adding machine tape. A dot of Elmers glue with a seed on top. It was nice because I was able to fold the paper in 1/2 then open it again to follow the line for placement. I actually didn't get them planted though, ran out of room in my garden, so not sure how they would work. I came across the directions somewhere here on Garden Web.