Does homemade seed tape work? Check out this method to create your own DIY seed tape to sow more rows in less time and keep straight rows. Seed tape is a long strip of paper with pre-spaced seeds ...

While everyone enjoys different planting styles, there's no denying that neat and even spacing is pleasing to the eye. It can be tricky to leave the exact same width between all of your seeds, which ...

Carrots may seem like one of the simplest vegetables to grow, but they can be surprisingly fussy. The number-one culprit? Soil. Carrots need loose, sandy, stone-free soil so their roots can grow long ...

Have you ever gotten frustrated trying to plant small seeds directly into your garden or thin-out plantings of radishes, carrots or beets? Well, here is an idea you might want to try. Why not prepare ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Seeds come in all shapes and sizes. While some are delightfully large and easy to plant, such as peas and sunflowers, planting up a row of radishes, ...

On cold winter days, a gardener’s thoughts naturally wander to the coming spring. Not yet ready for paper, plans are drawn in our imaginations, and then redrawn over and over again, for the new garden ...

Question: I am browsing seed catalogs for the upcoming gardening season. Can you explain some terms for me? What is ‘treated seed’? How about ‘pelleted seed’? And then there’s ‘seed tape.’ Please ...

Sophie takes the challenge out of planting very small seeds, and shows us how to make our own seed tape at home – a fantastic activity for a rainy winters’ day. Not everyone is a garden perfectionist, ...

If you want to plant tiny seeds such as lettuce or carrots you're probably better off using seed tape than trying to plant them by hand. Seed tape is a roll of biodegradable paper "tape" that is ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Sophie takes the challenge out of planting very small seeds, and shows us how to make our own seed tape ...