Beginning Gardeners will Love the Seedsheet

If you’d like to plant a vegetable garden, but don’t have a clue where to start, the Seedsheet is for you.

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In December I signed up for aKickstarter campaignfor a product designed to take the guesswork out of vegetable gardening . I wanted to help the folks atSeedsheetturn their idea into reality for streamlining the process of plant a vegetable garden .

Just like its descriptive name , Seedsheet is a preplanted garden that ’s ready to unroll and weewee .

to begin with this month , as a reinforcement for being one of the early supporters , I received my 1 - fundament by 3 - invertebrate foot herbaceous plant Seedsheet . The Seedsheet is preplanted with St. Basil , cilantro , parsley and dill .

I had to wait for the rainy conditions to go out before I could take the Seedsheet out for a tryout . The source cod are encase in the same material that ’s used by the pharmaceutical manufacture to make it easy for pill to dissolve , so it ’s important not to get the pod wet before it ’s time to plant .

The process is so well-heeled that just about anyone could institute a Seedsheet garden by do it which side of the sheet front down . The instructions say the Seedsheet can save anywhere between 30 minutes to 4 hours of planting time or the equivalent to salute at least 4 beers .

Because my small-scale vegetable garden patch is reserve for tomatoes and squash works , I decided to plant the Seedsheet in a shaping trough container . It was easy to reduce the weed barrier cloth to take the issue of pods to plant . I used the enclosed landscape basic to keep it in place and store the leftover section in a nerveless , ironic emplacement for next time of year .

Watering in the come may be the most challenging ( and prison term consuming ) part of gardening with this product . The instructions make it decipherable to begin by gently misting the seed pods with a atomiser feeding bottle or becloud nozzle . That ’s because a watering can will dissolve the pods too quickly and spread the seed over the top of the fabric . ( Please do n’t ask me how I know this . )

Keep spraying until the soil is nice and moist . Just like when seeds are plant in the conventional style , the come need to be kept moist until they burgeon forth .

I ’ll be sure to let you know how it grows .

The common people at Seedsheet have some good idea for the hereafter of their Cartesian product . At the website , nurseryman will be able-bodied to punch in their zip code to have a Seedsheet customise to their penchant and environment . All of the semen are organic , non - GMO and “ optimize for their specific characteristics , familiar benefit and climate compatibility , ” according to the FAQ page on the web site .

I think the Seedsheet is a nifty theme or I would n’t have signed on . I ’m all in party favor of anything that helps more set out gardeners get start gardening – or helps older gardener keep growing .

Seedsheet would be especially helpful to anyone concerned in planting in a community garden raised bed . All they ’d have to do is prepare the soil , unwind the Seedsheet and spray the pods . It could give new meaning to the melodic theme of “ making the layer . ”

What do you think of this fresh approach to “ farming plant life - by - numbers ” for growing vegetable gardens ?

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The Seedsheet is a preplanted garden that saves gardeners planting time.Photo/Illustration: Jodi Torpey

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