Barncast 118 — Seed planter

Call 1 – squirrel & raccoon problems in garden
Matt in Ohio – sparrows in barn, turkeys & chickens together – protozoan disease (blackhead)
How do we get along?
Ellen – coated fleece rant!

Earthway planter purchased from Lehman’s
11 different plates (comes with 5, 6 optional)
Benefits:
Adjustable seed depth, row width. Plate controls how far apart each seed is dropped.
Cut the time to plant the garden by something like 90%, and no sore back after!
Negatives
Need to till the soil
Must be relatively flat
Twigs, sticks may be caught in it as you are going through the soil
Need a good amount of seed, may not work on small sampler packs
Loss at the end of row, very short rows don’t work well
Conclusion – We love it so far, waiting to see how germination is!

5 comments

Laura on 2008/05/13 at 4:05 pm

I was wondering if you could email me the names of the knitting reference book by Maggie Orgetti you mentioned in podcast 117? I can’t seem to get the spelling right, and google is making good enough guesses either. Thanks!

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misty on 2008/05/13 at 9:36 pm

It’s Maggie Righetti. :) Here is her most popular book, Knitting in Plain English. :)

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Warren on 2008/05/14 at 6:11 pm

I have an older version of that planter and I love it. It suffers from the same issues you mention but it makes everything a lot easier! There are a few like mine on ebay right now for pretty low prices too.

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andrew on 2008/05/14 at 6:26 pm

Thanks Warren, that would have been much smarter! Oh well!

Here’s a link to all of them on ebay.

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Chris on 2008/05/15 at 11:33 am

Hi Misty & Andrew
Really enjoy your podcasts! Thanks for taking the time to do them :)
Wondering if you heard about the goat here in Iowa that gave birth to Quintuplets? Ouch
Have a great week!

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