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  • From: "Bill Bradshaw" <billbradshaw AT hughes.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Tool reviews European Planter
  • Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 16:13:04 -0500

You can contact earthway and they will make you some plates from the seed you send them. They did for me, I don't recall the cost but the plates work. I think the ones they made were for summer squash and cucumbers. Bill


----- Original Message ----- From: "Willie McKemie" <mf AT austinfarm.org>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Tool reviews European Planter


On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:47:24PM -0400, Glen Eco Farm wrote:
About earthway seeder:
spinach satisfactorily. Some kinds of beans planted fairly well and others
didn't, with seeds often wedging behind the flexible plastic seed plates,
causing jams, poping and seed throwing. It was a little better than sowing
seed by hand but not much better.

I've had the same trouble. It seems to be associated with over filling
the seed hopper.

those things. (The Earthway would plant radishes but not spinach due to a
slight difference in seed size.) My biggest disappointment with the

I've taken a die grinder to some of my seed plates to increase the hole
size.

All in all, I would say that the earthway works pretty well. For such
a cheap thing.

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