Sign up ×  Whenever I sow seed directly into the garden bed, due
to the bizarre laws of physics, I end up with patches of no
seedlings and patches where they are growing on top of each
other.  I scatter seed by hand whenever the seed is impossibly
small to be picking out individual seeds for planting e.g.
lettuce.  Is there a technique I can use that results in a more
even distribution?  I understand there is a tool available, but
I'd prefer not to have one of every tool if I can do it myself.
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accepted  You can glue seeds to paper napkins. Sounds weird, but
I tried it last year with carrots and lettuce with mostly ok
results.  I'm going to retry this year with toilet paper so I
can have a nice, straight, long row of carrots.  It's somewhat
time consuming to prepare the mats, but you get perfect spacing,
and you can do it at night when there's no possibility for doing
other garden chores. It also makes the outside part of planting
time go very fas