so I'm showing you here how to sow more
seeds in a smaller area and that takes a
less space say in a greenhouse like this
or on a windowsill wherever you might be
raising them
it means you use less compost and also
when you come to plant them out if
you've multi sown like I'm showing you
here it means that you can be planting
several plants at the same time so again
that saves time it's just a very
efficient way the thing is you need to
know which are the best plants
vegetables specifically in this case to
do in this way and how many seeds of
each so I'm going to fill a train out
and show you a few examples it works
really well to put quite a lot of
compost in so highly that they're like
that and then level it out and then push
it down and this is to keep it really
cuz if you don't push it in enough the
plants haven't got enough compost to
root into and also that holds more
moisture and then the compost holds
together better when you prick push them
out for planting so now the compost is
quite firmly in there now making little
holes with my finger the compost at this
stage is not wet so it's not hurting
from any squashing effect that might
have analyzed and just making loose
holes not too deep it depends a bit what
you want so how deep the holes again me
for example if it was peas I'll make
holes for peas here and they are deeper
because peas are bigger seat that's all
there is to it and then for example so
here the peas these are actually some
home safe PC you can see there they're
nice big plump peas I'm going to put
three in each one with peas you could do
to two or three I find is a a good
number that you can then plant out at a
clump so that each one of those when it
goes into the ground is going to be
three pcs that you plant at the same
time now here we have radish
radish is also quite big seeds so
therefore easy tunnel god this probably
actually about 200 ready to see this I'm
not going to use them all I'm just
popping them in here about it for in a
self could be five again it's not
absolutely vital it just depends a bit
what you want if you have five they'll
be slightly smaller radishes if you have
four they'll be slightly bigger so we'll
stop the radish there next up what
should we try beetroot feature is a
really good one for this because it is
quite difficult sometimes to sow
beetroot direct that's mainly because
birds and wood lice and slugs other
pests like to eat them when they're
seedlings but actually as little plants
they are much more resistant to pests
nibbles problems so I'm sowing four or
five beetroot seeds sometimes beetroot
seeds germinate more than one plant from
a seed if there's more than four or five
come up I'll just thin them out I'm
looking for four or five and the last
one I'm going to show here is onions now
again these are home sized onions which
makes it interesting because when you
save your own seed you don't get that
visual perfection that you do from
bought seed you can see a bit of that
husk from when I saved the onion but
mostly there's lots of good seed there
onion is a black seed quite small so
it's actually difficult to count the
number you put in a cell and I'm not too
particular about it
I aim for six if it was spring onions I
don't for seven or eight these are
actually red bulb onions and if all I'm
saying I'm thinking I could actually
grow these a spring onions and I think
I'm going to so I'm actually now adding
a few more seeds to each cell you know
this is the kind of flexibility you got
while you're doing it you can thinking
along those lines so I've actually sewed
about eight or ten onion seeds in each
cell
we nearly finished now because I'm just
going to push those peas in a bit more
simply it's to cover up with compost on
top now not too much fat
apart from the peas I'm just going to
the rest of them maybe a little bit more
when you're sowing seeds you don't bury
them too deep they can struggle to come
up and there's more problems from too
deep sowing them from too shallow the
next step and the final step before
leaving them to grow is to water so
watering is fine on top like that
sometimes it's recommended that you turn
the rows around upside down I don't
believe in that I find it works really
well to slow this glass you waste less
water you can direct it very carefully
to where you want it and I'm just
waiting a little bit between waterings
on I get this compost fully moist so
that I know that it's moist and I'm
going to worry about watering it at the
moment
say for three or four days because
Wallace's are germinating they're not
using a lot of moisture maybe one could
put some cover on that so that's good
watering now so these seeds are now
ready to grow for more information on
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