Angela, I gave you a really long answer on this, but I don't see it (or your question) here. Either it's gone, or we have the wrong thread. Anyway, the tutorial link is below. I had great luck and almost perfect germination with Imperator and Chantenay varieties. Not so good with Rainbow Blend, which also didn't do well with traditional sowing. Either 1" or 2" spacing works. I use 1" and pull every other one for fresh baby carrots. Curt Grow, I hope those Bounty towels disintegrate easily. The cheaper ones actually work better, and toilet tissue or cheap paper napkins work the best for me. Here is a link that might be useful: Annie's Granny's Seed Mat Tutorial

I had to look it up because, remembering that Elmer's has always had an iconic cow as part of their logo and that my mother used to use evaporated milk as a glue for ceramics (it's very effective), I didn't think starch was the base of Elmer's. Apparently, Elmer's began as a hide-based glue and is now a vinyl based product. I've put in a link to the info I found below. Not disputing that starch can also be a base for glues. We all know about library paste. Wallpaper paste is also based on wheat starch. And I've heard of brushing on liquid laundry starch to glue things that are up to the moisture to walls and glass as an effective but removable adhesive. Just correcting the record on Elmer's glue. PS Sorry I'm so anal... Here is a link that might be useful: what is glue made from

Yes I am, thank you so much for your concern. My area was affected by smoke only, as was so much of the West Coast, and for a surprisingly long time. Quite a bit of it at times and for nearly a month, off and on, mostly on. Our house is not near where there was immediate fire danger. My "family" at home is me and my wife. Our kids are hither and yon, pursuing their careers and their lives elsewhere. In normal times, we visit each at least once a year, sometimes more, and they come here or elsewhere when they can where we can get together. For now, we're not traveling and they're not either. So nice of you to ask. Thank you. I hope you and yours are healthy and safe too.

I'm just a random person on the internet and we all have thoughts about others we encounter. But whether it's anonymous people on the internet or friends, family, neighbors and acquaintances in one's life, it's not helpful to base one's attitude toward someone else on the least favorite conversation or conversations you've had with them. Or to find any possible opportunity to be snotty toward one particular person, as some in this thread do. If no conversations are worthwhile, that's different as far as attitude goes but not different as far as being snotty at every opportunity goes. Just my suggestion. "I maintain we all cant live where Elmer lives with every advantage right at our finger tips because it would be too crowded." It is quite crowded where I am but I suspect you may have closer access to places that have "every advantage at our finger tips" than I have. Where I live is very populous but too often has small town/provincial ways and attitudes, and I mean that not in a good sense. It's long seemed that way to me here though it's not an opinion universally shared. There are many reasons why it's so populous here but that doesn't matter. Maybe my recollection is wrong but perhaps the "conversation" you're thinking of related to your saying that because you're in a more rural area, your access to higher speed internet service, cable services, variety of shopping, etc was limited. To something like that, I might have commented that that would never work for me, you said it was fine for you. We can both be happy where we are, places the other wouldn't like.