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  • From: Pam Twin Oaks <pam AT twinoaks.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Push seeders
  • Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 17:27:16 -0500

I'm surprised at your response, Clark. My experience is different.

Clark said:
>There are two seed plates for carrots available for the Earthway, light
>spacing and regular. I actually prefer the thicker spacing and sometimes
>make two passes in the same row to get the denser spacing. Just plant
>them deep enough so that they don't dry out, but not too deep. ;-)

On 1/24/2011 5:08 PM, Wyoma Dalrymple wrote:
> I'm new to this site as well as new to push seeders.  My daughter just
> bought an Earthway.  We've not had any experience with any of them.
> From these last two letters, I assume it doesn't do too well with
> carrot seeds.  Is that correct?  I am really not wanting to thin
> carrots.  We have a small CSA and plant about 30 rows of carrots, not
> fields, but too much to waste time thinning, also.  What has your
> experience been with the Earthway seeder?
> Thanks.
> Wyoma

We use the Earthway for Danvers 126 carrots. We use the "light carrot" plate and do need to thin. That's with just one pass with the light plate. I can hardly imagine two passes with the regular plate!

Pam Twin Oaks, central Virginia



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