[Market-farming] Pinpoint seeder
Andy Fellenz
fellenz at fltg.net
Thu Feb 5 23:33:14 EST 2009
You might want to look at the Jang Seeder being sold by Mechanical
Transplanter. I have a three row and have been very happy with its
performance with small seeded vegetables like carrots. It takes a
little work to set up the seeding depth, but once you get the hang of
it, it is easy to set up and quick to change over. It does a good job
singulating and spacing the seed and is very consistent with seeding
depth.
Andy
www.FellenzFamilyFarm.com
Marcy wrote:
>
> Beth and Allan, I appreciate your feedback.
>
> I have custody of a neighbor's old Planet Jr. He doesn't use it but
> doesn't want to sell it J
>
> Maybe I'll work with it more on small seeds. I've had a tough time
> with it but I'm not very patient with things like that and after
> reading the whole process to change seed size I don't think I'd do any
> better with the pinpoint. And my hoophouse soil is FAR from perfect!
> Especially after I had my neighbor take his skid-steer tiller through
> it last spring to work in the wheat grass cover -- way too deep and we
> lost all the nice soil we'd been working on.
>
> I'll be more cognizant of what seed I'm planting (last year's lettuce
> vs this year's seed makes a huge difference in germination). Maybe do
> more transplants for nice head spacing too. I was thinking about
> carrots, beets, chard, radish, all my herbs, but once we get the soil
> better the spacing will do better too. I like your suggestion about
> rolling the soil Allan and we'll try a barrel. Got rid of an old sod
> roller that must have weighed 300#. We could hardly move the thing. No
> clue what they did with it.
>
> Since I've got boys that love to use their knives I think we'll stick
> with that for harvesting -- this year anyway.
>
> THANKS again! I'm glad I checked as I'm sure I'd end up with both
> technical and personality issues!
>
> Marcy
>
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