[Market-farming] John Deere "B" Planter
Kelly Saxer
kellysaxer at hotmail.com
Mon Mar 9 16:41:43 EDT 2009
Hi,
I've acquired a couple old John Deere "B" planters that I'm trying to get back into use. I'm having a little trouble identifying which seed plates I need for the following crops:
Squash
Melons
Corn
Does anyone out there happen to have the "B" plate numbers for these crops.
Thanks for your help.
Kelly Saxer
Desert Roots Farm
(602) 751-0655
kellysaxer at hotmail.com
> From: pat at meadows.pair.com
> To: market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 12:59:31 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Seed Germination?
>
>
> OK, I looked it up.
>
> =============
>
> 'Seeds - The Definitive Guide to Growing, History, and Lore,' by Peter
> Loewer, Timber Press, Portland, OR, 1995, p. 57.
>
> [First, he lists a few anecdotal but probably untrue instances of older
> seed being reputed to be better, then goes on to say:]
>
> 'But most of the experimental evidence shows that older seed, unless
> properly stored, produces inferior plants.'
>
> ==============
>
> I would assume that - even if 'properly stored' this process would
> continue. Freezing would certainly it down tremendously, however.
>
> About the book:
>
> This is *not* a guide to growing seeds from a practical standpoint, in
> spite of the title.
>
> And my edition of the book is especially annoying - it was an 'update' of
> an older edition, a stop-gap between the older edition and a [not then yet
> published] newer edition. So the author refers several times to some of
> the info in this edition being outdated and contradicted by newer evidence,
> but he doesn't tell you WHICH info changed. (The really newer and revised
> edition may be out by now, I don't know.)
>
> So I don't recommend the book, as a whole. It has some interesting
> information, however.
>
> Pat
> -- North-Central Pennsylvania, USA
> www.meadows.pair.com/articleindex.html
>
> The world has enough for everyone's need,
> but not enough for everyone's greed.
>
> Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi.
>
>
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