Sown #20 answer

The solved garden

The seeds: R1C1, R1C5, R2C3, R2C7, R3C1, R3C10, R4C6, R4C8, R5C4, R5C10, R6C2, R6C8, R7C4, R7C6, R8C2, R8C9, R9C5, R9C7, R10C3, R10C9 (R = row, C = column, counting from the top left). Every row, column and plot holds two seeds, and no two seeds touch, not even diagonally.

A twin garden: Sunday's puzzle. The hardest idea it needed was a square whose seed would leave a row, column or plot with no room.

How to crack it: the first moves

1. A seed in the square in row 1, column 2 would leave the sage plot without enough room. So it stays empty.
2. A seed in the square in row 2, column 1 would leave the sage plot without enough room. So it stays empty.
3. A seed in the square in row 2, column 2 would leave the sage plot without enough room. So it stays empty.
4. The sage plot still needs 2 more seeds, and only 2 free squares are left. Sow them.
5. A seed in the square in row 3, column 9 would leave the sky plot without enough room. So it stays empty.
6. A seed in the square in row 4, column 9 would leave the pink plot without enough room. So it stays empty.

Plots are named by their colour in the picture (sage, sunflower, lavender, coral, sky, pink, teal, sand, slate, apricot). Every Sown garden can be solved this way, one deduction at a time, without guessing.