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  • From: "Casey & Teena" <cm62547 AT windstream.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Earthway Push Seeder
  • Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:16:04 -0500

Here is a link to a good fix for the Earthway seeder soves the proplem of the seeds getting behind the seed plate.
----- Original Message ----- From: <clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Earthway Push Seeder


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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