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- From: "Marcy" <mlynn AT pcisys.net>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Pinpoint seeder
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 20:20:20 -0700
Beth and Allan, I appreciate your feedback. I have custody of a neighbor’s old Planet Jr.
He doesn’t use it but doesn’t want to sell it J Maybe I’ll work with it more on small seeds. I’ve
had a tough time with it but I’m not very patient with things like that
and after reading the whole process to change seed size I don’t think I’d
do any better with the pinpoint. And my hoophouse soil is FAR from perfect!
Especially after I had my neighbor take his skid-steer tiller through it last
spring to work in the wheat grass cover – way too deep and we lost all
the nice soil we’d been working on. I’ll be more cognizant of what seed I’m planting
(last year’s lettuce vs this year’s seed makes a huge difference in
germination). Maybe do more transplants for nice head spacing too. I was
thinking about carrots, beets, chard, radish, all my herbs, but once we get the
soil better the spacing will do better too. I like your suggestion about
rolling the soil Allan and we’ll try a barrel. Got rid of an old
sod roller that must have weighed 300#. We could hardly move the thing. No clue
what they did with it. Since I’ve got boys that love to use their knives I think
we’ll stick with that for harvesting – this year anyway. THANKS again! I’m glad I checked as I’m sure I’d
end up with both technical and personality issues! Marcy From:
market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Beth
Spaugh I don’t like mine. Johnny’s offered for me to send it
back for them to work on but I haven’t rounded up a large enough sturdy
box yet. Apparently they have made some adjustments since I got mine 3 years
ago. I was going to take it to the NOFA conference for them to take back, but
ended up not going, so… The technical issues – 1) the soil tends to build up behind
the roller and the seeds don’t come out. It may work well in a perfect
soil at a perfect moisture level. I have sandy soil in my hoophouse and it
doesn’t not work well unless quite wet. 2) The belts pop off and aren’t real noticeable, so you
don’t realize you are not sowing seeds. |
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[Market-farming] planter for sweet corn,
Andy Fellenz, 02/03/2009
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Market-farming] planter for sweet corn, clearviewfarm, 02/04/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] planter for sweet corn, sunnfarm, 02/04/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] planter for sweet corn,
Mark Weinheimer, 02/04/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pinpoint seeder,
Marcy, 02/05/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pinpoint seeder,
Beth Spaugh, 02/05/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Pinpoint seeder, Allan Balliett, 02/05/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pinpoint seeder,
Marcy, 02/05/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Pinpoint seeder, Andy Fellenz, 02/05/2009
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[Market-farming] transplanting carrots,
Beth Spaugh, 02/06/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] transplanting carrots,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 02/06/2009
- [Market-farming] Germination/ Maturation Days, jjburroughs, 02/06/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Germination/ Maturation Days, bcluton, 02/06/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Germination/ Maturation Days, Road's End Farm, 02/06/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Germination/ Maturation Days, Wiediger, Alison, 02/06/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] transplanting carrots,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 02/06/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Germination/ Maturation Days, Garth & Kim Travis, 02/06/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pinpoint seeder,
Beth Spaugh, 02/05/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pinpoint seeder,
Marcy, 02/05/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Marking supplies, Pat Meadows, 02/05/2009
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