| From another thread:
The bottle of pop with thin paste and a soup tin of beans in, put them in a 25 feet long line, with the beans almost touching.
I made a mistake with the flower seed (old bluebell seed left out far too long.)
I put them in on a slope at the back of the border out of the way of the flowers I am going to plant tonight. Then when I put the compost on them they tended to roll into the concrete under the fence panels.
If I had put them on a flat row and crumpled the John Innes a little it would not have mattered. As it was, I hardly used any compost over them. 3 soup tins of compost does a 6 foot stretch. (Hang on to the tin you measured the peas or beans with, that's another handy tool.)
The thin nozzle put the thick paste out amazingly well. A length of baton would have got me a military line. The seeds are about 1/2" apart.
I have 1/2" of paste left in the bottle. That's enough for another 30 feet. I'll thin it down and use it up. But I ran out of border to put it on.
The mastic gun put out a line 90 feet long! I could have run it to an hundred feet easily. But I was overcome with plenty.
I wish I could remember how many soup spoons of paste I put in the sauce bottle -about 5, I think. Three would have done. I will dilute it to 500 mil (about a soup tin full.)
*******Ten minutes later*******
And it works. As thin as water, the mastic gun squirts like a water pistol and you can plant seeds with good accuracy from a standing position.
Make sure you keep the nozzle cap, as it will pour out while you fill it otherwise.
Planting seeds is the most fiddly job in the garden and I woud rather pay £2 for every 6 or 8 plants grown in a tray from a nursery, than bother with seeding a plot.
I am now a convert.
Cost for about 30 x 6 feet of border?
I bought 5 packets of seed last week for just over 7 quid: Clary; Ageratum; Antirhinum; Agastashe; and Clarkia.
I might go another tenner and get some more now I know planting them is no trouble.
A mastic gun is about £5 or less and the mastic between £2 to £5 depending on what you buy it for. (And you get a free half pint of bath or window sealant with each tube.) The paste was just over a quid.
Less than £25. And I already had the mastic and gun. Boy! I wish I had tried this several decades ago. Next year I'll have all the seeds off these flowers for free.
If you don't have a mastic gun, a washing up liquid bottle should do and you can use the detergent as a fertiliser if you want rid.
They are 13 pence for a cheap "own brand" bottle in any supermarket. You have got to try it! | 
