Apparently eyeballing where seeds should go is no longer good enough for me.
I bought a Seeding Square.
It’s basically a square-foot gardening template with color-coded holes that tells me exactly where to plant seeds depending on how much spacing each plant needs. You lay it on top of the soil, poke the little dibber through the correct holes, and drop your seeds in.
Do I technically need this? Probably not.
Do I absolutely love the idea of perfectly spaced little rows of carrots, radishes, beets and everything else? Yes.
I’m planning to use square-foot-style planting in the raised beds so I can fit quite a bit into a relatively small space without just scattering seeds everywhere and hoping I remember what I did later. This should also make it much easier to document exactly what I planted and where—which is becoming increasingly important as the number of seeds in my house continue to multiply.
It came with the planting guide showing which color to use for different spacing. So instead of standing over the bed wondering, Was this supposed to be three inches apart? Four? Six?, I can just use the appropriate colored holes and be done with it.
This garden started because I wanted some greens.
I now own specialized equipment for making geometrically precise holes in dirt.
Seems reasonable.