Anyone ever tried this?

[TheGuerillaGardener]

Hey everybody. Anyone ever just thrown a whole bunch of different seeds into a cup, stirred them up, sprinkled them in the soil and dug them over a bit?

I did it last weekend. I keep planning to grow herbs, fruits and veg and I'm usually too busy to spend time in the garden so I decided to hell with it. I stirred seeds for mixed salads, lettuce, basil, rosemary, onions, mustard and a few others and sprinkled them on a bed I had treated with pelleted chicken manure a few weeks previously.

I reckoned that if I waited till I did it all the right way I'd never do it so I opted for the trial and error (most likely to be more error than trial) approach.

Am I right in thinking its an approach Bill Mollison recommends?

[bazil]

hey...im not sure how that method will do..good luck

i did find however an interesting method of planting that involved mixing seeds into clay and forming balls with the mix which can be scattered easily

http://www.pathtofreedom.com/pathprojec ... alls.shtml

it looks cool for doing large scale stuff or small scale rapid sowing without worrying about transplanting

[Shirley]

i've only ever tried the chuck it and see method with annual flower seeds and it worked ok for that...

I have a feeling that it would work ok for the mixed salad leaves.. but that things like the onions might need more room that has been randomly allocated to them... be interested to know how it works out though.

Bazil... the seed ball idea looks really good... might try that on some of the ground here.

[ina]

i've only ever tried the chuck it and see method with annual flower seeds and it worked ok for that...

Doesn't even work for that with me - have tried it several times, but the cat always thinks "this is a nice loo" before the stuff actually starts growing, so keeps digging it up or rather under!

[TheGuerillaGardener]

Sounds like the prognosis isn't good then?

As I know I'll never have time in the next few months to spend any decent amount of time in the garden I'll keep just throwing things in to see what happens.

[Millymollymandy]

Most of those things often come in packets of mixed seed for growing as mesclun or baby leaves. The rosemary won't work like that though as it is a perennial shrub. However with the lettuce you can cut it when it is young, or thin it out and use the thinnings in salad. Just remember to water every day until the seedlings get to a decent size, if it is dry there.

It's a lot better than doing nothing. Good luck!

[Andy Hamilton]

I tried that with wild flowers and none came up Well I actually think it was the slugs breakfast.

definetly an exciting was of doing it, I sometimes plant stuff and forget what I have planted in an area and end up weeding it out.