Why pelleted seeds

Planting Edible Gardens. Tending Edible Gardens. Container Gardening. Container Plants. Container Design. Garden Design. Public Gardens. Private Gardens. Garden Designers. Plant Breeders. Home Gardeners. At High Mowing, we offer two types of pelleted seed: sprinkles and mixed pearls. The sprinkles are longer and more cylindrical, which are great for sowing into open flats. They lend themselves well to sowing in straight lines by hand, and are also best utilized for dense plantings.

This is great for crops you plan to pot up later, and saves you valuable propagation space while the seeds germinate and get their first true leaves.

The mixed pearl pellets are best for seeding into cell trays. But be careful when seeding on a tabletop surface; these little pellets are perfectly cylindrical, which means they scamper away in every direction if you accidentally spill some on your seeding surface. There are some advantages to using raw seed instead of pelleted at times. For one, the cost is more fiscally conservative than paying for pelleting.

Additionally, the shape and size of raw seed can be more user-friendly for some commercial seeders whose plates and hoppers are not designed to work pelleted seed through their mechanisms.

I like to use raw seed for all of my dense plantings in the greenhouse and the field. I also use raw seed for crops that are known to have low germination rates, so I can pack several seeds into one cell and get a higher probability of successful germination. If your farm model includes growing flats of microgreens for harvesting at an early stage, raw seed is definitely the way to go. You get denser plantings, you can sow the seed free-hand over an open flat, and the cost is well worth it for such a quick crop.

Depending on your production model and scale, you may plant more in propagation spaces with flats and cell trays, or you may do more direct seeding and less propagation work. For large cell tray sowings of seed that is naturally small and difficult to handle, it is highly worth it in both time and resources to use pellets.

For more tightly seeded crops that are directly sown, and dense trays of microgreens, raw seed is a better choice. This site uses cookies to personalize your experience, measure site performance, and show you relevant offers and advertisements.

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Reduce seed waste and time spent thinning by using pelleted seeds. Easier to see, handle, and less likely to jam in mechanical planters.

Choose from our wide assortment of pelleted lettuce seed, pelleted carrot seed and more to increase your sowing efficiency. Monte Carlo. Pelleted Lettuce Seed. Dark green, compact romaine for an all-season mid-size. Add to Wishlist View Details. Rosanne 3 Brown.