Which Seeds Are Given Special Attention In The Course Of Making Pelleted Seeds?

Family food gardeners, particularly beginners, are prone to sow fine seeds much too thickly. When this extravagant use of seeds is followed by a chicken-hearted refusal to destroy excessive seedlings, the unfortunate gardener is penalized by rows of beets, carrots, onions and the like that are as thick as “hair on a dog” but are completely incapable of making normal growth.

Now the home gardener may have pelleted seeds of tomato, carrot, onion, beet and many other vegetables and flowers that may be spaced properly with ease and which will emerge as thrifty, well-spaced seedlings that will require a minimum of thinning to insure sturdy growth.

Beet seeds are given special attention in the course of making pelleted seeds.

The corky, irregular beet “seeds” with which we are familiar are in reality clusters of seeds. Each cluster is capable of yielding at least one or two seedlings and often as many as five or six seedlings. Thus, ordinary beet seeds can never be sown thinly enough to yield well-spaced seedlings. Therefore, prior to pelleting, beet “seeds” or clusters are subjected to a mechanical process known as “segmenting.”

This separates the clusters into relatively small corky segments each of which contains a single seed. These segmented beet seeds are then pelleted to yield round pellets of uniform size. These may be spaced regularly in planting to yield thrifty rows of uniform beet seedlings that require little or no thinning and produce well-formed roots. Among the popular annual flowers available as pelleted seeds are asters, calendulas, California poppies, larkspurs, sweet peas, wallflowers and zinnias.

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