Can you plant seeds in the ground?

[Sarah510]

I know, silly question probably! But have just moved into a house. Small garden, and it has one bed. Wanted to do sweet pea, or wild flowers even or something, but obviously no garden centres open. Can I just plant seeds in the ground? - seeds are in supermarket. Usually I'd buy a big bag of soil and plant in little containers and transfer to the earth. Can I just dig up some earth and use it...

Wildflower seeds just sprinkle on the top and leave them to it. Sweet peas I think need little pots first

You can. It's how it was done for thousands of years. Plough fields, scatter, tread in with cattle...

They'd do better in little pots first to get started. Ideally you would keep the pots inside over night as it can still be frosty overnight.

If you can't buy pots and compost how about using something like yogurt pots or a butter container and filling it with some fine soil from your garden. That would do the job perfectly well.

You can use loo roll tubes for sweetpeas. Stack them in a tray so they stand up and then when they've sprouted you cab just plant the whole tube in the ground.

Alternatively I've started a load of seeds off in strawberry trays, they're perfect for this.