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  • From: "stonecirclefarm tds.net" <stonecirclefarm AT tds.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Hatfield Transplanter (was Transplanting Leeks)
  • Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:19:24 -0500

I don't own a Hatfield (yet) but borrowed one last year for planting
all my peppers and tomatoes. I will be buying one before
transplanting time this year. It made the work much faster and easier
than crawling and stooping. It does require two people but it made it
possible for two to do the work of one in a fraction of the time. You
are not going to get the results of doing it by hand but even at my
small farm scale, I cannot afford to have every transplant pampered.
Having a well-tilled bed certainly helps as the soil is more likely to
flow into the hole and cover up the root ball. I just wish there was
an easy way to also add a shot of compost or bone meal.

-John

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Sheila Payne <srp75 AT msn.com> wrote:
> Youtube had other videos that could be selected when I brought the Japanese
> one up and so I looked at Johnny's Hatfield Transplanter.  I believe a while
> back we may have had some discussion on that....but now that is has been out
> on the market for a while, I'm wondering if there are experiences with it
> that you could share, particularly around this concept of "if the ground is
> prepared properly".   I assume the softer and fluffier the better, but can
> it work around pebbles, clods, the hidden mallow root, etc?
>
> ________________________________
> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:31:48 -0400
> From: fellenz AT fltg.net
> To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Transplanting Leeks
>
> I use one of the paperpot transplanters also and it is a slick little
> machine if the ground is prepared properly.
>
> Andy
>
>
> stonecirclefarm tds.net wrote:
>
> This is not going to help you right now, for this year's leeks, but this is
> how I transplant leeks:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWd8gBJgEMY
>
> -John
>
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