I got 14 yds of atomic red and 15 yds of purple haze carrot seed tape done this weekend, but ran out of flour(up visiting Dad, so just had a little baggy of flour with me) before I could finish all the sugar snax carrots and midnight ruffles (red) lettuce combination seed tape I was working on...only got about 8-9 yds of that done.
Seeing as how the carrots are spaced at 2 in. apart, this is a considerable amount of carrots all neatly packaged and awaiting to be planted. Some in the spring, but most will be planted for winter harvesting. I'll likely be working on seed tapes for various things every time I get a chance until they are all on tapes for the year. This saves me money in less wasted seed, and time and labor that would ordinarily be done on my old knees in the garden as I would thin these rows out. That time is much better spent while I listen to sermons and such, sitting comfortably at the table.
I've got many packets of lettuce that need put into tapes, so I really need to play catch up. I like the idea of doing combination tapes and may work on that a good bit~carrots with lettuce, onions with lettuce, radishes with lettuce, cilantro with carrots, parsley with onions, beets with spinach, etc.
Lots of work to be done, short time to do it, so I need to put it into high gear if I want to have these ready for sowing in March.
