Diatomaceous Earth as a seed starting medium

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Originally Posted by Tracydr

Looking for an idea to separate seeds when reusing the Jiffy 72 seed flats, filling them with DE instead of using the little peat pods. Trying to think of some sort of plastic strips or something to keep the different types of seeds separate so that I don't have a jumbled mess of 72 seeds, all different types mixed together.
Getting ready to plant a bunch of peppers and would like to use the bag of DE I just purchased from the auto parts store.

Tracy, what about taping wood sticks across each row to keep each seed separate. Like in a line-not squares? Does that make sense?