I’ve always hated thinning out plants in the garden. I always wondered if I’m plucking out the right seedling or if it could have ended up being the better plant.
My solution, seed tapes. I looked into buying some once and found I didn’t really like the price so much. It was some time back and I remember it being quite a bit more expensive and had fewer seeds.
So I decided to make my own, thinking most paper is biodegradable I went a different route than they took in the videos I’ve watched, and as is ture with most everything. There are as many ways of doing a thing there are people doing it.
This is 1/4″ wide strips that come out of my paper shredder. My plan is glue how ever many strips together to get to the desired length. I will then glue my seeds onto the strip and after it dries out I will roll them up. Sadly the youngest was having some fun and ran some plastic items through it. After I’m done whatever good paper that is left over will go into the compost.
I will of course write on the back side what seed I’ve used so as to avoid any confusion later on. I honestly do not see any reason why this will not work. My first go around was a diaster. We were in a drought and grasshoppers over ran everything that year, it was so dry they were eating the bark off of younger trees.
I have no affiliation with the video below but thought I would share one in case anyone wanted a visual aid and or hear someone explain the process. For what it’s worth I’m using white Elmers school glue.
Happy gardening! 😀
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