make your own seed tapes

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Amy Andrews from New Mexico says the time just flies when spring arrives. During the cold days of winter, she saves future planting and thinning time by making seed tapes. She cuts newspaper into 1-inch-wide strips. To glue the seeds to the paper, she makes a paste from water and flour, about the consistency of thick gravy. She adds a quarter teaspoon of water-soluble fertilizer to each half cup of paste. Using a yardstick and a marker, Amy marks the seed spacing on the paper strip — this saves thinning time later on. After placing the seeds on the dots, she completely covers each seed with a drop of paste. Then she lets the tapes dry and stores them in plastic bags. At planting time, Amy heads to the garden and simply rolls out her seed tapes and covers them lightly with soil. After she waters, the newspaper rots away as the seeds grow.