Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Seedy Subjects! => Grow From Seed => Topic started by: Diane Whitehead on December 20, 2007, 10:29:13 PM
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Pea family members are so gratifying to sow - up in a couple
of days if you damage them slightly to let the water in.
With big ones, I can hold each seed in my fingers while I
nip very gently with nail clippers.
Smaller ones are not so easy, and I usually rub them between
two pieces of sandpaper. This is a skittery thing to do, though.
Today I had a few medium-sized ones and found a very easy way
to abrade the seed coat. The pumice sitting beside my sink
has an oval indentation. I rubbed each seed in this indentation
with no danger of it shooting away onto the floor.
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That's a neat use for an everyday object, Diane. 8) Perhaps you shouldn't be telling us here, when instead you could be contacting a pumice stone manufacturer to make a special stone just for gardeners and marketing the "next big thing" for the horticulturalist gift business!! ::)
My way with peas.... no, no, this is not a Cuisine tip... is to soak, not abraid......soaking always seems to work.... it must be the lovely soft Scottish water :D