Time for a closer look at seed sowing pitfalls and solutions

Fiann Ó Nualláin explains how to get seed to germinate, looks at thinning and helping plants to thrive.

On one hand seed sowing is the easiest thing in the world— a case of just drop and add water —but on the other hand, just like with those cookbooks that say simply stir and simmer – it’s not always a guaranteed result.

So, as this is the month we begin our productive gardening in earnest, I thought it timely to look a little closer at getting that seed to successfully germinate and then on the 25th of this month come back and look at thinning and pricking-out and the next steps to getting abundance from your sown seeds over the next two weeks.