Gnome-seeding completed, I was left with a dish full of gelled chia seeds, and nowhere to put them. (Don't pour them down the drain. I read that they can sprout in there and cause plumbing issues.)
I searched the internet to learn the correct way to plant chia in soil. There is no shortage of articles about planting chia seed, but each one that I came upon suggested planting dry seed, and what I had was a bowl of chia gel sitting on my kitchen counter. Common sense says that once the seeds get moist in the soil, they'll form their little gel coating, so I decided to sow some and see what happens.
I used the same method that I would use if the seeds were dry. I'm not going to share planting instructions here because there is already more than enough information out there on the web, written by folks with way more experience than myself. However, I'm willing to Google it for you:
Let me Google that for you!
It is my guess that these guys will germinate just as well, if not more quickly, than if I had planted them dry. After all, we sometimes soak tomato seeds and pepper seeds prior to planting. Why not chia? I'll update here as soon as I have some results to report.
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