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- From: <clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Earthway Push Seeder
- Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:01:18 -0700
Rivka
Would you please expound on your comment about cleaning the Earthway well, at
least once a season? In what way do you clean it? When you say "reduces
seed jamming", are you referring to seed getting behind the plate or some
other form of jam (or jelly, perhaps? ;-)) )? How does one reduce seed
getting behind the seed plate?
Kurt Forman
Clearview Farm
Palmyra, NY 14522
--- organic87 AT frontiernet.net wrote:
From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Earthway Push Seeder
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:46:18 -0400
On Apr 23, 2010, at 7:41 PM, Richard Stewart wrote:
> As to the Earthway (same thread different post), I think they are
> junk.
Been using an Earthway here for over twenty years. Suits me fine.
The Earthway is not a super precision seeder, but it works in
moderately rough and rocky soil, which I gather most of the precision
seeders won't; and it's easy to empty and refill, useful for a grower
like me who may be planting 3 different varieties, or even 3 types of
seed, in one row, and something entirely different in the next row. I
do all my direct seeding with it except for crops on a very wide
spacing, such as winter squash (which I now do from transplant anyway
as my planting window between soil-too-cold and too-late-in-season-to-
ripen is some years about an hour and a half), and those few crops I
direct seed in plastic, which I do so little of that I just put them
in by hand.
I did eventually learn to clean the Earthway well at least once a
year; greatly reduces the seed jamming up while planting.
-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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