Make Your Own Seed Tapes

Hi, wonderful idea, I am square foot gardening (www.squarefootgardening.com) and I needed a system like this urgently. I will use serviettes of about 1 foot square, the put the dots on it as required for that particular plant and then put another serviette on top. This than will be folded in 4 after drying and kept in a dry place till needed. Great idea.

Excellent idea!

I did this one year with carrot seeds, mainly because the little buggers are a bear to plant by hand. I used Elmers (which is non-toxic and bio-degradable) and they came up beautifully. I'll have to try the cornstarch glue next time.

Very cool~ you got my vote

This is so neat! I would never have thought to do something like this.

HI...I saw an idea like this but they used 2" strips of toilet paper that was folded into 1" strips. I thought it was a good idea but did not use it until I started planting CARROT seed and then wished that I had.
You say you keep finished strips in the fridge. Some seed needs to be soaked overnight before planting. I wonder if using this cornstarch glue would soften the hull of the seed..and so start the decomposition of the hull...what do you think?

I could probably do that.

I want to get the kids into plantin;)

Thanks for the idea

WOW...this is a wonderful and easy idea!

I made a few of these for friends to include in a birthday card. Gret idea.

Best of luck!

this is really cool, ive also seen where people make home made paper, and they put plant seeds into that too, then they just cut up the paper and plant it :D

ha ha oh sorry, i didnt really look around, it was just on the top of my head :D

ha ha i guess they do!

meh names not jake either lol :P

heh my names Adam, jakezcop's my last name backwards :D

its pronounced poe-check-eye :D its actually polish and it means to wait :P dunno how we got it! lol

surprisingly for a 14 year old yes im very patient lol.

HAHA i dont know if MATURE is quite the right word :D

Very clever idea.

hi there. the idea certainly seems cool as a way to kill time when it's rainy, or involve your kids in a crafty endeavor. but even after reading through all the comments, including the one by dmcunningham, i still don't really understand how this would save time. it seems more laborious to have to dig a hole and then make sure the whole paper towel is underneath soil (and it seems too easy to plant them too deep) rather than either (a) sprinkle seeds on bare soil and then sprinkle a quarter inch of soil (or however much is needed) to cover them, or (b) just wet your index finger, stick a seed to it, then push the seed down into the soil.

but truthfully, i've had way more luck with seeds growing when i sprinkled them on top of the soil and left them uncovered. they seem to work their way down into soil on their own when water is applied, whereas when i try to put them down the correct depth, many of them end up too deep to germinate. maybe we are just planting different types of plants, or maybe i just need a bit more gardening experience.

okay, sidetracked a bit, but... i think it's awesome you make your own strips, rather than paying the high cost they charge for the pre-made strips, that's for sure. i guess i'm just not seeing why the strips were even invented in the first place.

Looks easy enough, I will try it.

easy enough how hard does it have to be for u not to do it lol????

It never ceases to amaze me how people who possess a total lack of reading comprehension skills will strive to further to prove their ignorance by asking questions of the obvious that was already answered had they bothered to actually read the whole thing and then remove all doubt about their intelligence by posting a snide comment and think its funny.

will u get the seed out when u need it or will u have the paper brack down as compost?

This seems pretty interesting to me, I'm all for saving time and backaches. Is there a limit to how large of an area you can cover with these?

Great idea DebH

i'm goin to try this out! thanks

We did something similar in my younger days but we used catalog pages.