Hi Tris.
Interesting ploy! And good for me because I am reminded to check the seed packet of Santero I sowed four weeks ago, whose germination is poor, about 25%. While trays sown with other onion and shallot seeds have come up fine.
The Santero seed is from Kings and is labelled “packeted y/e sep 15”. I had not noticed!
While some radish seed I bought at the same time is labelled “packeted y/e Jan 17.
So I am about to correspond with EW King. Is anyone else noticing similar?
Re pressing or making a hole with pencil, I wonder what was going on. This year to be safe I made holes with a small pencil.
Yes there were less onions at harvest time, a result of the poor germination!
