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  • From: Rachel Airmet <rachel AT sunshinefarmmarket.com>
  • To: "market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] The hatfield transplanter
  • Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 12:33:45 -0700



Sorry to bring up an old topic but I had one more question about this
transplanter: has anyone used it with soil blocks? We use both 1 1/2" and
2" blocks.

Thanks!

Rachel

On 5/21/07 9:14 AM, "Tom at Limerock" <limerock AT thirdplanet.net> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. Ordered one this morning.
>
> Tom
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: cjmaness AT juno.com
> To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 10:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] The hatfield transplanter
>
>
> Our ground is pretty rough, and the Hatfield works well. We don't
> plant through plastic, but the instructions say you can sharpen the
> ends and that it will then punch through plastic. The transplanter
> does work best on the ground that we have just tilled. The 2" has a
> huge opening so it should work on a 36 cell transplant. The small one
> which is the one I bought first worked well for us with 200 cell, 98
> cell, and even some 72 cell stuff. It has a depth adjuster on it so
> you can control to some extent how deep you go.
> This thing really is amazing. My husband was very skeptical when we
> first saw the transplanter in the catalog. I watched the video
> several times, showed it to my husband, and he said not to buy one. I
> ignored him. After using it he became a convert very quickly!
> We lay out our drip lines, and turn them on so we can get our plant
> spacing right. We have to watch that though because if it gets very
> wet, and muddy the mud will clog up the bottom where the plant drops
> out. We've learned to turn on the drip just long enough to dampen the
> ground enough so we can see where to plant. We use 12" emitter
> spacing on the drip so this works out pretty good for most of our
> plant spacing.
> We've used the transplanters on most of the vegetables, and nearly
> all of the flowers.
> If you have rocky soil, which we don't, you might run into problems.
> I don't know how well the transplanter would hold up if it hit rock.
> Carla
>
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