When broadcasting seeds...

[applestar]

...be sure to separate them with your fingers as you sow.

I asked my DD9 if she wanted to help *scatter* vetch seeds where I intend to sow corn in two weeks since I prepped the bed already. She said sure, so I gave her a handful of seeds, then watched as she TOSSED the seeds up in the air in a juggler's toss, and the seeds went up, then down, in a clump, with hardly any deformity in the formation, and land enmasse on the ground....

Let me tell you, juggler's toss does NOT SCATTER seeds.

You could plainly see the difference between where I walked along, sprinkling the seeds by working them out of my closed hand vs. DD's toss.

[DoubleDogFarm]

I guess you could describe my broadcasting of seed similar to walking backward throwing a Frisbee. I can't juggle.

Eric

[SPierce]

I can fully admit I've never tossed seeds anywhere! but, I do tend to dig little holes first, and then dump a few seeds in the hole out of the bag. I don't think it's a good idea for me to do that next year- too many came up and now I have to thin them out! I feel like I wasted a bunch of seeds :/

[digitS']

DD9 would have been just fine it those were rose petals she was "scattering" .

My techniques: Frisbee toss works well, especially if you've got lots of ground to cover. You can also do the same as most of us do when scattering seed in a row: off the fingers of an open hand, but from a height of a few feet.

Finally, there is the "dart throw." . . . pinch . . . toss . . . pinch . . . toss . . . then whack 'em with the rake!

Steve