Broadcasting seeds
To scatter seeds such as annual_flowers, salad crops and lawn_seed evenly over the soil surface. These are then lightly raked in or covered with a shallow layer of sieved soil.
Broadcasting seeds in a prepared bed
1. For a patterned planting, outline the areas for each kind of seed with gypsum, flour, or stakes and string. You may want to put a label in each area.
"Broadcasting seeds on snow could work, but I don't see any real point in it," says William Cullina, author and nursery director of the New England Wild Flower Society.
I've had good results both planting in rows and broadcasting seed over a large area.
Wide-row planting is simply a matter of broadcasting seeds in bands anywhere from 10 in. to 3 or more feet wide instead of a single band on each row.
The traditional method of broadcasting seed comes with several major drawbacks.
 See also: Broadcast, Broadcasting, Plant, Planting, Soil
  
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