posted 10 years ago
I just planted early spring stuff (peas, radishes, carrots, beets, turnips, lettuce, spinach) in a sort of broadcasted manner over part of my bed (not the peas - I was more deliberate with those). There's a light mulch of straw down which I halfheartedly moved aside where I thought seeds might have fallen. So essentially there's still a light mulch of straw down. What I'm wondering is, have I doomed my seeds from the beginning? Should there be no mulch down at all when it's seed-planting time if I'm not doing neat little rows where I can clearly part the mulch and expose the soil? Or is it likely they'll do just fine? Yes, I'm going to do a bit of neat rows as a control, and yes, I could just wait and see how it goes, but if I've just broken a really basic rule of mulching annual vegetables I'd rather know ahead of time and give all the seeds a good chance to make it. Thanks!