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  • From: "TxBeeFarmer" <TxBeeFarmer AT HotPop.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] European Seeder
  • Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:32:22 -0600

Anyone have a link for the European Seeder? I'd like to look at one.

Thanks
TxBeeFarmer (Mark)
West Texas Zone 7b

----- Original Message ----- From: "Glen Eco Farm" <glenecofarm AT planetcomm.net>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:58 PM
Subject: [Market-farming] European Seeder


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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