Dispensing tiny seeds for planting can be a tedious task. Here’s a simple tip to make the project go faster and easier.

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Danny: Tricia, when you’re planting seeds that small, you better have some pretty good vision. Tricia: Yes. And very dexterous fingers too. Danny: Yeah, without a doubt. Tricia: Well, I call this micro planting. And you can see, I have a flat head too thick. Now this is supposed to be a rounded head because that doesn’t do what I needed to do. Look what I’m going to do here. I just dipped it in a little bit of water and these are some snap dragon seeds. And as you can see, it’s on the very tip. Danny: Boy that’s small. Tricia: Isn’t it? But what I’m doing is I’m planting for spring and I can use the same one or a different on. But I can take these one at a time and put them in this pot. Now, I’m going to go for about six in this particular pot. Danny: Now, what is the problem in just taking a little pinch of these and kind of just sprinkle them in the pot themselves? Tricia: Well, I could do that. But if I do that, what happens is that they will all be clumped together. And when it comes the time to divide them, I’m going to run the risk of maybe pulling their roots apart and possibly losing one if not more of them, because this is just part of this step. When they’re babies, they’re here and then they’ll get planted to another pot before they get out to the big yard. Danny: I see. Okay. And the tray here, you’re able to what? Plant individual ones in it? Tricia: Yes. This is a great idea. Here, I would water all of these to plump it up and then I would put in one seed in each one and this would start a nice little greenhouse. Danny: It takes a lot of patience. Tricia: Yes.