Seeds on a tape

Has anyone heard of putting seeds onto a length of sticky tape to space them out along the row I’m thinking this would be helpful for veg /salad seeds I’ve heard that masking tape can be used but wondered if this would easily rot in time and not interfere with the germination

 

Welcome to Gardeners Corner Oldthymer,

Not done it with tape but have heard of mixing seed with wallpaper paste & squeezing out of an icing bag. Has to be wallpaper paste without fungicide apparently.

 

Hello Oldtymer and welcome to GC.

Only last week our Aldi had 'seeds on a tape' for sale. It's not a new concept. I don't know what the tape is made of. As to one doing it oneself, I don't know what kind of tape you would use but it would obviously have to be biodegradable. I have done tomatoes on paper towels bits.

I haven't done so, but look up on the net if masking tape is biodegrable .. if so, go with it ... and let us know how it works ...

 

Thanks Victoria and Ziggy both good ideas... Will be trying both ways and run my own small trial including masking tape

 

You used to be able to buy a roll, 18 inches or more wide, and about 5 feet long. It was pre planted with seeds of a range of garden perennials. - An instant border.

 

I knew that I had seen seed tapes somewhere - Suttons do a range of vegetable ones. The only one I could find for flowers were marigold seed tapes. Can't understand the advantage for marigolds , as they are quite a big seed. Now a mixed flower seed tape as Peter mentioned could be a winner.

Suttons, Groweasy Seed Tapes and Mats, Beetroot Boltardy Seed Tape, Carrot Early Nantes 5 Seed Tape
Bakker - Seed Tape Orange Marigold

 

i was thinking of doing this method when i plant my next carrots as my darling Grandchildren are sometimes a little too helpful

Homemade Seed Tapes

 

Hello Oldthymer and welcome to GC,
Was in Robert Dyas (to name only one of a few good places to buy gardening stuffs!)and they have suttons veg tapes for £2.65.
GCQ

 

A very BIG THANK YOU to you all...... I am using the newspaper and flour method sowing radishes for a quick result (hopefully) I think we're on to a winner... my old fingers can't spread the smaller seeds efficiently any more

 

Good luck and keep us posted on how it goes?

Happy Days
GCQ

 

I've just re-visited this post - I'm going to give this method a try for some radish, lettuce and carrots. I will use the 'newspaper with flour & water paste' recipe and see what happens.

Any other member had success with home-made seed tapes?

a-a

 

Had me a go at this type of method a few years back.
I used old newspapers cut into long strips and then PVA glue on one side with seeds spaced out. It did work well as the kids liked to use this method to see where the seeds came up in seed trays and then remove any weeds which grew outside of the paper.
Will keep this in mind when the grand kids come along.

 

I seem to remember in this method the real reason was to actually germinate the seed indoors in the paste, so once planted out the seed was already growing.