has anyone used these?? seed mats

pink.1970

Hello all.

Just wondering if anyone has had any success in using seed mats.

I have just been into down doing my usual trawl of the charity shops when i saw them in Help the Aged £3.25 for either, red, blue, purple or white. They have different seeds of all one colour in them.

If they are any good i think i may get a couple.

Also found something called Grobox, it says "plant the box any time of the year cover with soil water regularly and be rewarded with an array of flowers". They are for garden and hanging baskets. £5.99 from www.24studio.co.uk

bella165

for that price yes they are good infact brilliant i have used theses in the past with brilliant results so go for it

bella165

aviod the grow box tho they are crap

Olliebeak

I remember my grandfather using something called 'Magic Carpet' in the late 50's. It was like two layers of 'paper towel stuff' with seeds sandwiched in between. You just had to unroll it, lightly cover with soil and water! It produced a lovely assortment of garden flowers that year - far more colourful than our usual paltry border of three rose bushes and a couple of tiger lilies.

pink.1970

quick update... it took me awhile but i decided to buy one of these seed mats today, so this weekend i shall be planting it in the garden if the weather is nice enough.

Mozart321

I got some herb seed mates but thought it would be better if i took the seeds out of the mat so I did so I didnt have to sow all at the same time.
On second thought, thats a bit crazy.

Chris25

Olliebeak wrote: »

I remember my grandfather using something called 'Magic Carpet' in the late 50's. It was like two layers of 'paper towel stuff' with seeds sandwiched in between. You just had to unroll it, lightly cover with soil and water! .

we used something like this about 25 years ago but it was loaded with grass seed - and we rolled it out along the garden, much to the amusement of our neighbours But it was very good and we had a brilliant lawn from scratch, so we had the last laugh laugh Haven't seen in since though.