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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 21:13:26 -0700

Thanks for your insights, Rivka and Casey and Teena!

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: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:31:56 -0400


On Apr 24, 2010, at 6:01 PM, <clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com>
<clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com
> wrote:

> 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?

Take all the seed plates and wash them in soapy water (dish soap).
Don't rinse them; let them air dry with the soapy water still on them
(at least that's what the instructions I came across said, and it
seems to help). Wipe out the inside of the seed box with soapy water
and let dry, ditto. Clean anything else that looks grubby; put a
little 3 in 1 or similar oil on moving-part junctures outside the seed
box such as the wheel hubs.

The instructions also said if that doesn't work try dry spray graphite
lubricant -- I haven't tried that, though.

> 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?

Seed getting behind the plate, yes. (If you filled the seeder with
jelly I bet it would really need cleaning : ) ). It also helps to
not fill the seed box too full.

Usually it's only peas and soybeans that give me trouble with jamming.
I noticed the problem was getting worse and worse every year, and then
I came across the cleaning instructions; much better now.

The hint in the link Casey & Teena posted also looks interesting.
Don't know if I'll get around to trying it, though, unless the seeder
starts giving me more trouble than usual.
>
>

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



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