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How to Plant Tiny Seeds to Make Your Own Vegetable Starts
Petunia seeds are tiny...and so are tomato seeds, carrot seeds, brocolli seeds and many other flower seeds. Beet seeds, nasturtium seeds, pea and bean seeds, on the other hand, are HUGE, at least in the world of seeds. When dealing with tiny seeds, you can just shake the whole packet out over your seed beds, or try to spill the seeds in rows. Then, once they've sprouted, revisit your bed and pluck out seedlings to thin them so there is enough space between each plant for it to grow full-sized.
If you are a softie, then thinning out baby seedlings is nearly impossible! They are so cute and green and tiny, you have to have a cold heart to pluck them.
You also end up wasting a lot of seed (and money). Seed Saving is a topic we will revisit soon!
MotherGoose.com has an inexpensive and simple solution...all you need is a toothpick and a dish!
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Here are "Wave" style petunia seeds.
These cost $4.95 for 10 seeds! Ouch! But they will bloom into beautiful trailing summer-long flowering container fillers. Not a seed can be wasted, so here goes...!
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A small glass dish and a toothpick
Place a small glass dish and a toothpick on a dark colored kitchen towel. If you drop a seed, it will be easy to find a pale petunia seed on the red cloth, at least in theory!
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Lift up the toothpick with seed attached, and move it over to your tray of moistened peat pellets.
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Place a seed in the center of each peat pellet. Petunias need sun to germinate, so don't cover them with peat.
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