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Re: [Market-farming] Johnny's European Push Seeder, is it a good unit to invest in?
- From: "Glen Eco Farm" <glenecofarm AT planetcomm.net>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Johnny's European Push Seeder, is it a good unit to invest in?
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:09:30 -0500
I did a fairly detailed write up about my
European push seeder on this list back sometime in the summer. You should
be able to dig it out of the archives. It's not a perfect tool but with a
few adjustments I can get along with it.
The best thing I like about it is the more
sturdy construction and stability when working in my stoney and cloddy
soil. The seed plates, when needing to be changed, are no more difficult
to do than those on an Earthway and if you are only changing to a slightly
larger or smaller seed you may only need to spin the externally mounted plate to
a larger or smaller hole, much easier. And you don't have the aggravation
of plastic plates flexing and jamming seed under the plate and then popping them
to who knows where. Sometimes seed size variations in radish, spinach, or
some bean varieties can make life difficult for using the
Earthway. This is easily handled in the European by adjusting hole
size. I have sowed small seeded things like lettuce, carrots,
and kale successfully but I was dissappointed that it wouldn't do a decent job
on sweet corn, and I'm still not sure about swiss chard and beets. My
impressions are that it does best with smooth evenly rounded seeds like peas and
okra and worst with irregular shaped and surfaced seeds like corn and
beets. These things tend to clump together as the rotating brushes move
them up the sloping side of the hopper towards the discharge hole and then
release irregularly. I think a redesign of the machine with the discharge
hole closer to the bottom of the seed hopper would improve on this
problem.
Another thing I found to be essential for
using the European seeder is to have a cordless rechargeable hand vacuum to take
along to the field to use for sucking remaining seed out of the seed hopper when
you are changing seed types or varieties. Mine works well but it is
another $35-$50 dollar investment.
Hope this is helpful.
Marlin Burkholder
Virginia
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office waiting room:
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Subject: [Market-farming] Johnny's European Push
Seeder,is it a good unit to invest in?
> Is this unit worth investing in? Will it do lettuce, carrots, arugula, etc. OK?
>
> http://www.johnnyseeds.com/catalog/product.aspx?category=292&subcategory=621&item=9381
> Product ID: 9381
> European Push Seeder
> New last year! A versatile new push seeder.
> Sturdy design with steel construction. Comes with three seed plates with thirteen hole sizes in each. Sows crops ranging from
> small seeded greens and lettuce up to large seeded beans and peas. Seeding rate is dependent on the hole size that is selected.
> Compares favorably to the Planet Jr., with similar seeding rate control, but with a lighter-weight design and easier-to-change seed plates.
> 1 Unit $278.00
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[Market-farming] Johnny's European Push Seeder, is it a good unit to invest in?,
dirt.4arm, 12/17/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Johnny's European Push Seeder, is it a good unit to invest in?, Allan Balliett, 12/17/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Johnny's European Push Seeder, is it a good unit to invest in?, Glen Eco Farm, 12/17/2007
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