Usually for home gardeners, the packets of seed is contains more seeds than what can be realistically used for 3-4 growing seasons. Moreover, we grow more variety of vegetables than a farmer, and we plant and harvest continuously throughout the growing season. A simple solution to optimize and make efficient use of seeds would be to have vegetable seeds mats 1 x 1 Foot with appropriate spacing. All you would need to do is put soil on top of it and water. No buying, handling and wasting of seeds. It would be a good business opportunity for seed companies to produce this innovative solution for square foot gardener.
A carrot seed mat might look like this with seeds embedded in the thin dry growing media. As soon as it comes in contact with moist soil the germination process starts.
This would be a lettuce mat with appropriate spacing for lettuce to be placed in one square of a SFG.
In fact there exists if you search seed mats, but they are meant for traditional row farming.
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