Autumn is my favourite time of the year in the garden.
Over the weekend, I have been planting for Autumn and Winter – ensuring we have food growing in our veggie patches throughout Winter.
So far I have planted broccoli, kale, lettuces, spinach, snow peas and coriander by seed – using two techniques (which happens to be my best two techniques for seed germination rate success).
1) Manually plant seeds directly into the garden beds, then thin them out (allowing the allocated space needed between plants). This has been more successful than transplanting from trays, toilet paper rolls etc.
2) Assist with plant’s ‘self seeding’ process. Plants that ‘go to seed’ and allowed to stay in the ground, will disperse it’s seed via the wind for the next season. I like to give a little direction with this self seeding process, by often pulling the seeding plant out and placing it in the vicinity of where I would like the seeds to disperse.

Placed the seeding curly leaf lettuce plant above a garden bed. Allowing seeds to disperse below into the garden bed.
I like planting the seed in situ. You are so right .. Seedlings dislike being pricked out. I did mine I over the weekend .. They are a sorry looking bunch 😀
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Every now and then Julie, I have cracking success transplanting seedlings but planting seed directly to where they are to grow, generally has been better. I just need to let go of my need for plants to be in order and straight rows (crazy as when does that happen in the natural world).
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So true, it seldom does. And planting in rows only makes it super easy for pests to find those veg! 😃
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Yes row planting is like street lights, illuminating the veggies for insects to find. 🙂
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