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  • From: Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>
  • To: sjfb AT worldpath.net, Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Rolling Dibble Marker Drum
  • Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 09:01:13 -0400

Sandra -

I'm looking for such a tool myself, but, just looking at the plans, I wouldn't put a lot of faith in this particular design. Has anyone on the list built or used one of these?

I'm going to be working one up this season from sheet of plywood with wood dowels at 6inch spacings (so you can skip every-other-one and hit the 12inch spacing) This won't keep a person off their knees, however.

The value of precise spacings in intensive plantings cannot be over emphasized. yesterday we planted two 50-ft beds of strawberries intensively. One was 'eyeballed,' the other measured. The latter held 30 more plants than the 'eye-balled' one. In this particular planting, getting those plants into the bed means a lot. Of course, erring on the 'too tight' side will show up in loss of yield and increased disease.

I'd sure like to hear how other people handle their intensive layouts.

Yesterday, I would have been happy with a knotted string. Does anyone sell planting tapes or lines that hold up in the field and could make, say, the 9 inch row interval of a 6 inch intensive planting?

Thanks

-ALlan
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Has anyone on the list seen, used or made a rolling dibble marker drum for
transplant spacing, as described on a Wisconsin Healthy Farmers, Healthy
Profits Project website (http://bse.wisc.edu/hfhp) Work Efficiency Tip
Sheet?

Sounds like ya'll should consider a water wheel transplanter. I used one for several years to plant tomatoes, it did a great job and would plant through plastic. My wheel had 2' spacing and I think the knobs are about 4' long; the holes they leave are suitable for 2" peat pots.
I could plant about 600-800 an hour with a tractor driver and one person to set the plants. However, I have gone back to hand planting at the rate of about 100 per hour because it requires less supervision and bed preparation. We now do plant spacing with a 2' length of pvc pipe.

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I too have admired the concept of the rolling dibble marker drum, but haven't constructed one yet.
We currently use a string to mark the edge of the bed and a tool that works fairly well for defining an intensive planting pattern. The tool is made from an old lawn mower handle, a 3ft piece of 2X4 and 4 wooden cubes a bit larger than our soil blocks. The four cubes are nailed on to the 2x4 at even intervals. I move down the bed marking 4 holes at a time by stepping gently on the 2x4, moving it to alternate spacing for the next row in and stepping again. I can begin the spacing by using the tool across the end of the bed to mark the row beginnings. I usually plant 5 alternating rows this way; it's perfect for lettuce and many other market crops - I've even been silly enough to plant 5 kinds and colors of lettuce in diagonal rows across a bed with this just for the way it looked when they were mature. I admit this does compact the soil a bit under each transplant - maybe 4 huge spikes would be better - or even those angled 3-4" pieces of pvc. I used what was at hand and could be assembled easily. Its become an essential tool here.
Molly
Molly's Island Garden
Whidbey Island, Washington




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