Market Farming

[Willie McKemie <mf AT austinfarm.org>]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:36:38AM -0600, Judy & Ernie Duckworth wrote:
> List,
> 
>     Some time ago there was a discussion about the seed stick planter. We 
> planted some green bean on plastic last year by hand and they did very good 
> and want to do it again this year. We used a knife to cut hole and dropped 
> the seed by hand. Very time consuming...
>     Will the seed stick plant through plastic or must we get the easy-plant 
> jab-type planter. Dose this type of planter have a hopper to hold seeds or 
> is each seed dropped individually by hand?

Though I haven't done it, I'm "pretty sure" the stick planter sold by 
Johnny's will work through plastic.  Unless the plastic is very tight, 
I'm not sure that the germinated seed will find it's way through the 
small hole the seeder will make.  I described the seeder here in quite 
a bit of detail a few weeks ago.  It does have a hopper that holds 1-2 
cups of seed.

I planted about 1/2 acre of green peas a couple a weeks ago; the seeder 
worked pretty well.  However, it looks like birds found almost all of 
the peas.  Next time, we will make more of an effort to get the seeds 
covered and packed in.

I had occassion to use my Glaser seeder for the second time yesterday; 
it worked much better in moist sandy soil than in dry.

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