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Seed planting short cut

seed tapeSeed-tape.com might be a solution for those of you out there who want to have a garden this year but already feel like the time is slipping away.

We plant seeds the old fashioned way around here and it's worked out pretty good so far.

The strips are biodegradable and take the guess work out of spacing, which can be a problem with tiny carrot seeds.

Of course seed planting is only a small part of getting started for the year...just keep in mind that a thousand mile journey begins with the first step.



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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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