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> > It is an ingenious idea.  When I get home I am going to practice with 
> real seeds.  Not sure  the old fingers are agile enough but I am going to 
> try!!
> 

My fingers aren't that much younger than yours!

Maybe I ought to do a YouTube of this.  You hold your hand with the two 
middle fingers against the palm and the index finger, pinkie, and thumb 
forming 
that sign language "I love you" sign.   Holding some seeds against the palm 
with the middle fingers, the tumb reaches down and rolls two or three seeds 
up the index finger until they are pinched between the index finger and 
thumb. At this point the base of the thumb is sealing off the seeds in the 
palm 
against falling out.

You punch the dirt with the pinkie because you want the thumb and 
indexfinger to stay clean and dry otherwise the seeds stick there and don't 
fall into 
the hole.   When the bed (or container) you are planting isn't so wide it 
requires your left hand to balance or support yourself, you keep the bulk of 
seeds in your left hand and refill your right hand as you go along.

If you can't manage rolling up two or three seeds at once, just do one and 
repeat the operation on the same hole two or three times.

James