Market Farming

["Susan Houghton" <susangivingtree AT earthlink.net>]

There is a picture of a vacuum seeder  on the hightunnels web page. 
www.hightunnels.org

Susan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janet Bachmann" <janetb AT ncat.org>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 2:37 PM
Subject: [Market-farming] vacuum & template flat seeder


> Somewhere I saw a construction plan for making a box-shaped, vacuum
> powered seeder.  It included a plate with holes that corresponded to
> cells in flats, and sized so that seeds would not pass through the
> holes.  When a vacuum was applied to one side of the plate, a seed would
> be held to each hole.  The plate would then be held over the flat,
> vacuum shut off, and the seeds would fall into place.  A number of
> dealers have vacuum seeders for sale, but I would like to find the
> make-it-yourself plan.
>
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