The newest sensation in gardening, these tissue paper strips are filled with evenly-spaced, high-quality seeds, just waiting to take off in your garden! To sow them, simply lay the strips (or circles, or mats!) where you want the plants to grow, cover with 1/4- to 1/2-inch of soil, and water them in. Before you know it you'll have perfectly spaced seedlings popping up just where you wanted them! No thinning, double-planting, measuring, or hole-digging!

The concept behind all this is simple. The seeds are selected for high performance and excellent germination rates, then specially "blown in" between the layers of paper. This helps them stay in place, for evenly-spaced plants that need no thinning. As the tissue paper becomes moist, it germinates the seeds, then dissolves into the soil. Imagine -- you can plant carrots in neat rows instead of wasting hundreds of seeds by broadcasting and then thinning them! Hungry birds won't feast on your newly-planted seeds, and even hard rains won't ruin the even spacing (no more clumps of tangled seedlings at one end of the garden and none at all on the other!). It's the best idea in "instant gardening" in years!

And if trying to plant microscopic seeds is just an exercise in frustration for you, seed tapes and mats are definitely the answer! Each is labeled with the type of seed it contains, so even if you get them mixed up once they're out of the envelope, you'll know exactly what you're planting. Perfect for containers of all kinds -- just snip to fit!

So if you've dreamed of planting an elegant vegetable and herb parterre but never had the time to crawl around measuring and dropping individual seeds into the pattern you want, here is your solution! If you've got eager young gardeners with clumsy fingers, let them experience the joy of gardening the easy way with tapes and mats! And if you simply want to save yourself lots of time, seed, and money, you've got to try these!